reconnoitre
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He was headed, generally, for Lake Superior, and would reconnoitre once he got to Lake Michigan.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 29, 2018
The Sunni caliph Mansur, whose new empire stretched from India to the Atlantic, sailed up and down the Tigris to reconnoitre a place for his home.
From Economist ● Jun. 12, 2014
Swarms of fighting planes took off to reconnoitre.
From Time Magazine Archive
President Coolidge, through the War Department, ordered Army planes to reconnoitre from Boston, but their work was delayed by fogs.
From Time Magazine Archive
And he added, that his brother had found it necessary to go forth with a small party of horse to reconnoitre this force, and ascertain its purposes and destination.
From Henry of Guise; (Vol. I of 3) or, The States of Blois by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James
The citation for temporary Lieutenant Robert Hastings read: "He personally reconnoitred the approach to the position under very severe rifle and machine-gun fire."
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2018
Dubbed Little Nellie, the machine enabled Bond, played by Sean Connery, to fight off a helicopter attack as he reconnoitred a Spectre base hidden in a Japanese volcano.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2013
Then they issued into the evening streets, reconnoitred in restaurants, newsstands, dance halls, bars.
From Time Magazine Archive
Exactly a century ago State surveyors reconnoitred a rail route over Pennsylvania's forested ridges between Chambersburg and Pittsburgh.
From Time Magazine Archive
After dark Proctor and Tecumseh reconnoitred together the American camp, when the latter advised a night attack.
From The Second War with England, Vol. 1 of 2 by Joel Tyler Headley
Erisso's daughter Anna, meanwhile, finds herself torn between familial and patriotic loyalties and her attraction to Maometto, whom she had fallen in love with when he was reconnoitring Greece in disguise.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 10, 2013
He became active last year as an oratorical scout, reconnoitring British public opinion in advance of the isolationist policies formally adopted by His Majesty's Government last week .
From Time Magazine Archive
By last week, instead of marching, U. S. business was generally marking time, with only a few industries pushing ahead like scouts reconnoitring in enemy territory.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here Isabella the Catholic, reconnoitring the city during the siege, narrowly escaped capture by a Moorish patrol.
From Southern Spain by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Calvert
Indeed, I would strongly recommend every one to take his first reconnoitring walk through the Ch'ien-men quarter.
From Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod by P?ter Vay
