reconnoiter

The major commanded a halt by merely halting, and, evidently himself a bit "skeered," rode on alone to reconnoiter. He was followed, however, by his adjutant and three troopers, who remained a little distance behind and, unseen by him, saw all that occurred.

So he entertained Wilson with some airs and graces and attitudes for a while, then stepped out of sight and resumed the other disguise, and by and by went down and out the back way and started downtown to reconnoiter the scene of his intended labors.

This time the outlaw threw his fierce horde completely around the embattled pile, before he advanced with a score of sturdy ruffians to reconnoiter.

On the previous day Platov reconnoitered with two Cossack regiments and two squadrons of hussars.

to reconnoiter the German position with a view to facilitating the actual assault; to destroy his lines, dugouts and wire; [and] to kill and capture Germans." Unspoken was the intention to take control of No-Mans' Land, physically and psychologically.

(14) As it turned out, Chelsmford's initial scouts had not thoroughly reconnoitered the surrounding area and, thus, had no idea that the Zulu army was there.

Jacobs offer their Pop!, a reconnoiter of the life and times of the hieroglyphic pop-artist Warhol.

When Alejandro Malaspina and his crew set off from Mexico in search of the Northwest Passage, his expedition was one of many Spanish voyages sent to reconnoiter the northern reaches of the continent (and thus strengthen Spanish claims in the New World).

Leonid Sazhin, an analyst for the Federal Security Service, the Russian security agency that succeeded the KGB, was quoted by Itar-Tass as saying: "Terrorists don't need to reconnoiter their target.

It's no longer just a place to loiter Now folks come to reconnoiter. Here they come to lie in wait To catch a Representative at the gate.

Even the radio chatter was more than window dressing: squad members fanning out to reconnoiter the area and reporting back field conditions, enabling us to choose the best course of action.

In this sequence Farocki juxtaposes a great ability to "reconnoiter" with a fatal failure to "recognize" in order to demonstrate how catastrophic a split between image and understanding can be.