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Tearfully she thanked the trusty reconnoitrer as for a kindness to herself, dwelling on the tokens of relenting, yet trembling at the tidings of the malady.
Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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"Is our reconnoitrer returned?" asked the count of the two who remained.
The Daughter of an Empress Nathaniel Greene 1843
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The circle of observation is then gradually enlarged, till it is thirty or forty yards in circumference, when the earnest reconnoitrer disappears, to return again in a short time with something for the general good.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 Volume 17, New Series, June 26, 1852 Various 1841
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