86 examples of vedette in sentences

This vedette is called naka.

" Just at sunset I was sent forward to relieve a vedette.

The sergeant halted within a few paces of the vedette, while I received instructions.

The vedette on either flank was invisible.

It came my time for vedette duty, and Willis was the sergeant to do the escort act.

We were in the woods, the most of us, but just here, on the right of our own detail, there were a few rifle-pits in the open, the opposing skirmish, lines being perhaps four hundred yards apart, and our vedette postswe maintained them only at nightbeing about sixty yards in advance of our pits, and always composed of three men for each post.

Our nearest vedette posts, right and left, were a hundred yards from methe one on the left being in the woods, that on the right in the open.

Beyond the ravine were the Confederates, their skirmish line about three hundred yards beyond it, and their nightly vedette posts nobody knew where, for they used similar economy to ours in withdrawing their vedettes in the day.

No sound reached me from the front; I supposed that the nearest rebel vedette was not nearer than two hundred yards, unless at a point more advanced from his lines there was some natural protection for him.

" The three of usCaptain Brown leading, I following him, and the detailed man, Allen, coming afterwent forward to a vedette.

I asked Allen to go back and leave his piece at the picket-line; while he was gone I spoke in whispers to the vedette.

I warned the vedette to be very careful in case he heard anything in his front, lest he fire on a friend.

A secret advance of the enemy's skirmishers would have been precipitated into a charge by the fire of the vedette, whereas his secret retreat to his line would prepare the pickets to surprise the surprisers.

I was beginning to hope that there was no vedette or picket-line in these woods.

I feared every moment lest we should be detected by some vedette.

A vedette had been advanced to the branch by Captain Brown.

We passed a mounted vedette, and then went on for a few hundred yards until we came to a crossroad.

Soon I saw before me a fallen tree, and wondered if it might not conceal some vedette.

I went slowly and cautiously on through weeds and bushes, sometimes wading down the stream itself, the water being already very muddy from the rains, and at last, while bending to right and left and up and down seeking vision ahead through the thicket, I saw before me an infantry vedette a very short distance in front.

Again I crept up to the spot from which I had seen the vedette; he was yet there, still facing south.

Soon I saw another vedette, facing south.

Within a mile I expected to find Brook Run, behind which it was supposed the Confederate left extended, and where I must exercise the greatest care lest I run foul of some vedette.

I knew what they meantthe vedette on either side of me was being relieved.

I had easily succeeded in passing the vedettes; to avoid the vedette reliefs might not be easy.

For my part, I think it more likely that, if you were there at all, you were there as a scout, or as a vedette.

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