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He appeared in the doorway and paused. With a quick and familiar gesture, he placed a monocle on his right eye and left it there, as if to reconnoiter the room he was about to enter, but perhaps to give those that were already there the time to see him and to observe his entrance.
But nothing showed that the banks of the stream had been recently frequented nothing announced either the presence or the proximity of the convicts. Towards five in the evening the cart stopped nearly 600 feet from the palisade. A semicircular screen of trees still hid it. It was necessary to reconnoiter the corral, in order to ascertain if it was occupied.
"Monday night he was sent with the reconnoitering party to Casa-de-Mata." "Tuesday he was sent with the officer that carried our General's expostulation to Santa Anna. At night he was put on guard." "Wednesday he was sent with another party to protect a band of emigrants crossing the marshes. At night he was sent with still another party to reconnoiter Molina-del-Rey."
That seemed to settle them, and at last we saw the infantry advancing to their positions without resistance. "Now was my chance. I determined to get those machine guns if I could, as otherwise the infantry would. So I left in command and got the trumpeter, sergeant major, and six men with six rifles, and went forward 'to reconnoiter, as I reported to after I had gone.
He wanted, very, very much, to feel his teeth sink into the neck of the queer animal that he had learned to hate and fear, and because of this, he came often with his tribe to reconnoiter, waiting for a time when the white ape should be off his guard.
Thence he sent out parties to reconnoiter the enemy's position, and learn his intentions. Among other persons sent out with this design was Aaron Burr, a lieutenant-colonel, who had served in Arnold's expedition to Quebec, and who was destined to become a conspicuous person in American history. Clinton had arrived with his army in the neighborhood of Sandy Hook on the 30th of June.
So long as we stuck to the ridge on the defensive the enemy had the advantage of the initiative. A runner brought up word from Colonel Lewis to learn the strength of the savages in the hills along the creek, and I was directed to reconnoiter. I made for the creek from the south slope of the ridge.
Louise Imogen Guiney. "There's an abandoned lumber camp down here, if I'm not mistaken, and if we've made the right turns we ought to be south of Lamar and near the railroad." Armitage passed his rein to Claiborne and plunged down the steep road to reconnoiter. "It's a strange business," Claiborne muttered half-aloud.
No work was possible at such a time in a mountain distillery, and stores could not be shifted so readily as in summer time. So he determined to bide his opportunity and make a secret visit to Davie Forbes' dwelling, just to reconnoiter. He would thus be enabled to form his plan of campaign for a more bold attack.
The advance of the ships was necessarily slow. So immense a flotilla could not have been otherwise kept together. The admirals, however, selected ten of the swiftest of the galleys, and, after manning and arming them in the most perfect manner, sent them forward to reconnoiter. The ten galleys were ordered to advance rapidly, but with the greatest circumspection.
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