reconnoitres

• “Recover the baggage — Cold weather — Overseer reconnoitres the cliffS — Unfavourable report —”

  Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1

• “Ives, comes up Colorado, 1858, 2; reconnoitres south of Grand Canyon, 96; names North Side Mountains, 186”

  A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872

• “- COL., crosses to Long Island, 154; at Harlem Heights, 247; reconnoitres the enemy's position, 247, 248; mortally wounded, 254; where buried, 261; sketch of, Part II.,”

  The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn

• “Knowlton, next morning, marches out from Harlem Heights, reconnoitres "by way of Vandewater's," and comes upon the British posts on and along the line of the Bloomingdale Road.”

  The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn

• “I shall be very much surprised, however, if it is still so when he reconnoitres it this evening.”

  The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

• “I shall be very much surprised, however, if it still so when he reconnoitres it this evening.”

  The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

• “Her eyes rested upon him for two seconds in the look with which woman reconnoitres all men whom she for the first time confronts.”

  Strictly business: more stories of the four million

• “Lady reconnoitres cautiously from the window above.”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 8, 1893

• “Slower than his adversary, and failing to follow up with vigor his advantage already gained, Hooker assumes command in person, and reconnoitres the ground between himself and Fredericksburg.”

  The Campaign of Chancellorsville

• “Again the ambushed eye opens, and the little corner of the sleeper's soul that happens to be _not_ asleep, reconnoitres.”

  The Drummer Boy

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