Use "reconnoitre" in a sentence
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reconnoitre
1. They had fresh orders to reconnoitre Prempeh's summer residence where much valuable property had been stored
2. As we waited for the Vet to arrest it, an old lady came down the stairs to reconnoitre the commotion
3. „Or… we could wimp out and sneak around the other side of the hill for a reconnoitre
4. a spy, to reconnoitre the palace without our knowing
5. Over the next hour, they had the occasional visitor that would walk past, doing what they soon discovered was the first reconnoitre walk around
6. As we approached the point, I begged him to remain in a sheltered place, while I went on to reconnoitre; for it was towards it that the men had passed in the night
7. They soon reached the summit of the hill, and, evidently intending this point to be the limit of their promenade, slackened pace and turned all three aside to the gate whereat Tess had paused an hour before that time to reconnoitre the town before descending into it
8. she returned from a reconnoitre of the church and graveyard
9. This punic labor, incontestably authorized by war, which permits traps, was so well done, that Haxo, who had been despatched by the Emperor at nine o'clock in the morning to reconnoitre the enemy's batteries, had discovered nothing of it, and had returned and reported to Napoleon that there were no obstacles except the two barricades which barred the road to Nivelles and to Genappe
10. The Emperor detached Domon's division of light cavalry to reconnoitre in that quarter
11. Enormous patrols, composed of battalions of the Line, enclosed in entire companies of the National Guard, and preceded by a commissary of police wearing his scarf of office, went to reconnoitre the streets in rebellion
12. "We ought to reconnoitre now," he said, "because if any come near they may hear the spades and drop upon us unawares
13. Once or twice I saw a ripple where he approached the surface, just put his head out to reconnoitre, and instantly dived again
14. Big generals in their shirt-sleeves galloped through the streets on little horses, collecting their men; pieces of artillery were rushed out of the barracks and held in readiness; scouts went out to reconnoitre in every conceivable direction, and the military band, playing all the national airs within their ken, paraded the public square, halting every now and then so that an officer might read to the public the Commandante's orders to the effect that all the inhabitants must remain indoors under pain of all sorts of outrageous and impossible penalties
