Reconnoiterings

We are here very reluctantly obliged to kill our good and faithful companion the last remaining camel (Siva) that was with us in all our reconnoiterings and other journeys; he was indeed a splendid animal but now quite unfit to travel beyond this. ❋ John McKinlay (N/A)

He there writes: 'Our last two reconnoiterings: Toulon has eight sail of the line apparently ready for sea ... a seventy-four repairing. ❋ Unknown (1888)

The San Reve kept secret pace with Storri in these reconnoiterings. ❋ Alfred Henry Lewis (1885)

He had no genius for the tactics of intrigue; your reconnoiterings, and marchings, and countermarchings, sappings, and minings, assaults, sometimes surrenders, and sometimes repulses. ❋ Benjamin Disraeli (1842)

He never opened his mouth to his timid conqueror concerning the past; but he admitted him very near to his person in his labors, took him with him to several reconnoiterings, in such a way as to obtain that which he evidently warmly desired, -- a rehabilitation in the mind of D'Artagnan. ❋ Alexandre Dumas P��re (1836)

Guard, which for two months past had made the most careful reconnoiterings in the neighboring wood, even to the extent of occasionally shooting their own sentries and putting themselves in battle array if a rabbit stirred in the brushwood, had now retired to their domestic hearths; their arms, their uniforms, all the murderous apparatus with which they had been wont to strike terror to the hearts of all beholders for three leagues round, had vanished. ❋ Guy De Maupassant (1871)

"With both having become [shitfaced] to a point which would [merit] casual coitus, he soon saw that he was in a position to reconnoiter a now [dripping delta] which he hadnt planned on, but which it was nontheless his responsibility to do so." ❋ Cz Hole (2008)