As soon as the Tearaways were established in the new position, the O.C. and the adjutant made a tour of their lines, carefully reconnoitering through their periscopes the open ground which had been pointed out to them on the map as the line of the new trench which they were to commence digging.

Sure enough, orders were given to pack up and prepare to move as soon as it was dark, and the captain went off with a working party to reconnoiter a new position and prepare places for the cars.

Thence he went to Praeneste, and cutting across the country, came out in the Latin way, whence he led his troops towards the enemy, reconnoitering the road with the utmost diligence; not intending to expose himself to hazard any where, except as far as necessity compelled him.

Presently, on reconnoitering the surrounding country, I discovered a second herd, consisting of five bull elephants, which were quietly feeding about a mile to the northward.

We will reconnoiter the morass to-day, and when night falls will so post our men as to open a fire on either flank of him as he comes across the track.

Antony was planning the operations of the day, and reconnoitering the movements of the enemy from an eminence which he occupied at the head of a body of foot soldiersall the land forces that now remained to himand looking off, from the eminence on which he stood, toward the harbor, he observed a movement among the galleys.

He rode directly to the place where his infantry were most closely pressed, and while he was reconnoitering the enemy's line for an exposed point of attack, the shortness of his sight unfortunately led him too close to their ranks.

Had they returned after reconnoitering the place, they would have accomplished the object of their mission, and avoided a heavy calamity.

The Germans worked on fairly similar lines, and as a result it can easily be imagined that any patrol or reconnoitering work between the lines was apt to be exceedingly unhealthy.

Men have to be reconnoitering the enemy.

The frigate Philadelphia, while reconnoitering the harbor, struck on a rock and was captured by the Tripolitans, who made her officers prisoners of war and her crew slaves.

It looked as if they were reconnoitering the house from a distance and debating the best manner of procedure.

While these were going forward with as much dispatch as possible, Mr. Lally, one of the first assistants, was detached to reconnoiter the inlet of the lake.

The interior of the hut was dark, but Haw-Haw stole with the caution of a wild Indian to the entrance and reconnoitered the interior, probing every shadowy corner with his glittering eyes.

On the Barbary Coast you don't pass men in narrow places until you have reconnoitered a little.

Therefore Iriel went forward: standing on the pyramid of the Dagda, he began measuring and reconnoitering the army.

Hence you hear of practised travellers, when they first come into a place, mounting some high hill or church tower, by way of reconnoitering its neighbourhood.

Meanwhile, I think I'll reconnoiter Wylie's new office and find out what's doing.

He went down to Essex, reconnoitered the parsonage, saw one of the sisters hanging out cuffs and collars in the orchardanother feeding the fowlsboth in shabby gowns and country-made boots; one of them with red hair and freckles.

The little chunamed tank, in which he fed some fresh-water fish, is quite dried up; and the mud wall, through a hole in which he reconnoitered passers-by, is, like the great owner, returned to earth!" Captain Mundy's volumes are illustrated chiefly with sketches of Indian sports from the master-hand of Land-seer; and for spirit of execution they deserve to rank among the finest productions of this distinguished artist.

But Blandina sez, evidently reconnoitering the past seen in her memory, "No livin' bein' will ever make me think a man's life is not worth more than a woman's."

He saw that he must delay his purpose until the travelers were out of sight: and this chafed his spirit: but he controlled it, and proposed to Henrich and Oriana to seat themselves on the verge of the precipice, and watch the course of the travelers, while he went to reconnoiter the steep path by which he designed to join them.

Kearney's boat, while reconnoitering the shore.

describing the precaution taken by a swarm of bees, in reconnoitering the situation where they intend to establish their new colony, or swarm from the parent hive.

You will also reconnoiter the stream for a distance of 1 mile both above and below the bridge for fords suitable for infantry.