Voorbeelden van reconnoiter

• Is it not asking too much of residencies, however, to reconnoiter each summer to adjust to new residents of unknown skills and temperaments?

• Immediate preparations were made to attack the fort, as one of the officers had reconnoitered its strength.

• The main body moves slowly forward after reconnoitering has commenced, without any order, and only passing whatever ground has been rendered secure by the reconnoiterers.

• The two clambered out and reconnoitered for help.

• But that peak was as good as any for reconnoitering the surrounding country, was higher than any other within several miles, in fact.

• He went up on the shoulder of the man who was to watch outside the rear wall, and straddled the wall for a brief reconnoiter.

• It was just before midnight when they swung down out of the sky to reconnoiter the ice jam.

• They descended, reconnoitered the corridor carefully, and retraced their steps.

• Then a party set out on foot to reconnoiter the land.

• It is right that the house should be reconnoitered without delay, but for us to do that in a body would be inviting defeat.

• The homes that he intended to plunder had been selected long before, and the premises in each case thoroughly reconnoitered.

• Here we stayed a couple of days, while our reconnoitering details went forward and familiarized themselves with the position.

• All day scouting parties in taxicabs kept appearing on the sandy plain to reconnoiter the fleet and fortress.

• Occasionally he would stop and apparently reconnoiter, and then cautiously advance.

• Then they slipped into the woods, reconnoitered carefully for a little while, finding nothing hostile, and returned to the river.