A vedette of cavalrymen acted as observers, defying fatigue, while patrol after patrol came through the fields of wheat and rye.
At midnight the vedette came in and reported that no one had crossed.
At the ford near Hersfeld he had left a vedette of three picked men to watch and capture any one that crossed during the next five or six hours.
When the vedette came Nigel roused himself to hear their report, bade them take the refreshment provided for them, and go to sleep.
His La Vedette des Dragons sous Louis XV, though small in dimensions, is another important historical picture, whilst Les Amateurs des Tableaux recalls a similar composition in the Wallace Collection.
Twas a mere fool's trick to bolt off after a runaway vedette when, for all you knew, a whole army-corps was within a mile of us.
At one moment a cavalry vedette galloped up with news that the French were in sight.
We were just beginning our meal of commissariat beef and pork, tempered with the contents of the aforesaid havresack, when away went the vedette again, first circling right and then reversing as suddenly to the left.
In the midst of the races a party of Russians were seen approaching the vedetteon No.
Not a bit of it; we had just laden ourselves with haversacks to forage among the merchant shipping in the harbour, when a vedette was seen to "circle right" most industriously.
From the top of Canrobert's Hill their vedette could see everything that went on in the plains, from the entrance to Balaklava to the ridges on which the French right rested.
They stated that they had deceived the men who were with them into the belief that the vedette was one of their own outposts, and advanced boldly till the Dragoon fired on them, when they discovered their mistake.
By the advice of the vedettewho had been watching the region of the Halles, Enjolras, through fear of a surprise in the rear, formed a serious resolution.
It wanted an hour of midnight when the brigand vedette stationed at the mountain foot heard the howl of the Apennine wolf three times repeated.
Chuckling at his coarse jest, the vedette once more resumed his seat upon the rock; and, folding his frezada around him, relapsed into silence.
The vedette soon perceived that his conjecture was correct.
A vedette of the German Hussars was posted on the other side of the river in our front upon a commanding height in the village of Carpio; from his station he could overlook all between him and Ciudad Rodrigo.
Hopwood and myself with three men crawled from our post into an avenue of trees, which covered us from the immediate view of the French vedette posted on a little eminence to apprise his friends of any danger.
There was not a Confederate vedette between the town and Banks at Harrisonburg--the latter was probably moving down the pike this very night, in the dark of the moon.
A few miles farther down the road the same brace of lies got us safely through the loosely drawnvedette line, and by evening we were in sight of our goal.
The lieutenant in command of the first vedette line was not over-curious.
Repeatedly in my travels I would come at nightfall to some little vedette outpost and be made welcome of the officers' Mess.
I arrived at the bridge at eight o'clock at night, and found a vedette on guard.
The men were approaching cautiously, each with his carbine at the ready, and for the moment it seemed as if the vedette were about to place the lives of the two lads in fresh peril.
Pen took another good look round, but nothing like a vedette or single sentry was in view; and after a few moments of hesitation he snatched at the opportunity.
The vedette explained that, descrying the heads of a large number of horsemen over the tops of the bushes on the crest of the hill, he had dashed back to give the alarm according to orders.
The vedette who had been killed must be relieved ere long, and for all they knew there might be a numerous detachment of their enemy within reach.
Evidently they had fallen upon his vedette unawares, killed him, and then divided.
On the way he passed the vedettes strung out at intervals of about three miles, and leaving the last vedette behind, near the cave, sped on beside the river.
But before the first shot is fired which tells of the battle begun, what raids and skirmishes, what reconnoitring and vedette duty must take place!
And a line of skirmishers in close quarters with an enemy's vedette would be posted like us, and perhaps similarly affected by the first crackling fire of musketry.
A Confederate cavalry vedette was on the alert, and fired at us the first shot of the night.
We were continuing our advance across the field where we came on the vedette just mentioned, and all in high spirits.
A vedette had been advanced to the branch by Captain Brown.
Could I not post myself as a Confederate vedette between the connecting men?
No sound reached me from the front; I supposed that the nearest rebel vedette was not nearer than two hundred yards, unless at a point more advanced from his lines there was some natural protection for him.
I knew what they meant--the vedette on either side of me was being relieved.
I had easily succeeded in passing the vedettes; to avoid the vedette reliefs might not be easy.
It came my time for vedette duty, and Willis was the sergeant to do the escort act.
Beyond the ravine were the Confederates, their skirmish line about three hundred yards beyond it, and their nightly vedette posts nobody knew where, for they used similar economy to ours in withdrawing their vedettes in the day.
I was beginning to hope that there was no vedette or picket-line in these woods.
Our nearestvedette posts, right and left, were a hundred yards from me--the one on the left being in the woods, that on the right in the open.
Then the Doctor and Jones and the wagon turn, round in my head and all vanish, and I find myself a vedette on the North Fork of the Rappahannock, and pull myself together with a jerk.
Doubtless it was the difficulty of getting pure water that justified the relaxation of discipline which permitted the men to have recourse to this spring in rear of their vedette lines.
I warned the vedette to be very careful in case he heard anything in his front, lest he fire on a friend.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vedette" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: lookout; patrol; patrolman; picket; roundsman; scout; sentry; spotter; watch; watcher; watchman
