Tradition is to be scouted when it is found inconvenient, but cited as irrefragable truth when it suits the case.
We left the road but scouted eastward along its edge, I desiring to learn more of it; for it seemed to bear toward Wood Creek; and if there were enemy batteaux to be seen I wished to count them.
But when I suggested this idea to him he indignantly scouted the idea, repeating his statement and bidding me crawl to the opening of the shelter and see for myself, if I did not believe him.
Southern dread of amalgamation is not to be scouted as a mere bugbear.
What strange combination of circumstances could ever have brought such a man to this place, and sent him forth across those Indian-scouted plains?
That was all; Keith scouted over a wide circle, even scanning the stretch of gravel under the river bank, before he could fully satisfy himself there were no others in the party.
At intervals one or the other crept from this leafy covert and scouted entirely around the building, moving with caution and scanning every possible approach to the house.
Without unnecessary loss of time, the boys scouted around the house, and among the scrub oaks they came upon the flivver.
He had heard the story of her visiting Blakely by night, and scouted it.
The clefts they scouted were all on the wrong side.
The little colonel was too old a soldier to run risks of this sort, and he determined to have the gorge carefully scoutedbefore he took his column into it.
A picked band of the fugitives scouted back through the forest and cautiously reconnoitred their captured fort, which had been set on fire by the troops, and was now a heap of blackened ruins.
He had, says Bent, scouted down until he was close to Kai-iwi.
At the village of Turangarere and at Taiporohenui they dwelt for a while, and the warriors scouted out day after day in the vicinity of the European redoubts.
The 21st Lancers scouted ahead of the British brigades, to discover if any foe were lurking behind Surgham Hill.
The cavalry went out and scouted the country, and brought in large numbers of prisoners.
When I scouted down their trenches at night I found equipment and stores lying on top of the parapet.
We were planning to take a portion of the trench opposite to straighten our line, and I had scouted down a hundred yards of it from behind, and got a good idea of the strength with which it was held, taking bearings of its position.
This educational move was scouted and flouted, and the fact pointed to that there was not enough money in the ginger-jar to keep him at Cambridge a week.
The low retainers of the English garrison, who had sold their souls to the enemy but were kept in awe by bodily fear, became outrageously patriotic; and with insulted gratitude they scouted the traducers of the "saviour of their country.
And then if we accidentally scouted a little, maybe we could find the place.
They wanted me to add some footage from Guatemala, but I scouted the country and decided it was too scary.
Had anyone suggested that within a few months he would be treading the deck of a diminutive warship flying the White Ensign, Wakefield would have scouted the idea.
It is now his belief, although he scouted the idea at the time, that this Captain Fennelburt is a spy, or at least an impostor, masquerading as an R.
Even some authentic reports from persons who had caught glimpses of the robbers near Mankato were scouted as absurdly incredible.
His father scouted the idea, and bade him go on with his milking.
Mrs. Canary had expressed some anxiety about them, but Uncle Dick had scouted any peril that might threaten the young folks.
Mr. and Mrs. Canary at firstscouted the reasonableness of the idea.
The country had been carefully scoutedby Buller's Horse for twenty miles round, and no Zulus were reported near.
These heights were scouted as the troops advanced, but nothing but old women and children were seen.
The manner in which Bengough's well-trained men scoured and scouted was most gratifying to observe.
Mr. Hennage's baleful eyesscouted the mule-skinner's person for evidence of hardware.
I scoutedfor the water all one summer, but didn't find any.
And yet, so young did she sometimes look, so childlike was her smile and so simple her manner, that there were curious ones who scouted the supposition of wifehood.
We haven't scouted that area, and we don't dare send a photo-plane over it now.
The Council scouted the idea of another regency, and intimated plainly their intention to seek an adult Head of the Government.
The Duke scoutedher ill-humour and treated her cruelly.
This proposal did not gain any favour outside the Papal cabinet: in Florence it was scouted with derision.
The American public scouted the idea as being impossible of accomplishment, but the report persisted, and cities along the Atlantic Coast line had been on the watch for several days.
