It came from a Mexican vaquero, who had been stationed as a vidette on an eminence near at hand.
By this time the wild mares appeared coming over the crest of the ridge upon which the vidette had been stationed.
The "Black Horse Cavalry," an old organization of Virginia, said to have remained intact since the Revolution, did vidette duty still beyond the infantry.
Jack knew he was searching for the wire that ran from the planted explosive up to the spot where the vidette was stationed, his intention being to sever this strand so as to make the hidden dynamite futile for doing any damage.
It might be he was wondering what would happen should the guide through some mistake overlap the range of safety, and their coming be noted by the ever vigilant vidette posted in some eagle-like eyrie far up the slope.
We never saw a German vidette or express galloping furiously, that we did not immediately know there was work for some one to do.
While thus speculating on the result, a noise reaches the ears of the English youth, as also of others on vidette post, which causes an instant and sudden turning of their eyes in the opposite direction.
He is in fact no longer in the camp, for soon as the second grizzly had been disposed of, he started back for the vidette post, and so abruptly as to make all wonder who were observing him.
From the vidette post, around which they have all gathered, they behold a moving mass, in the early dawn distinguishable as men on horseback.
A cry rings from vidette to vidette behind them and back to the guard.
The cavalry that was engaged in this vidette line, picketted on the Shenandoah River and were often routed by the enemy.
Cavalry was sent to keep up a vidette line from Manassas Junction to Strasburg.
At midnight I sent William Dyches, a private from Company E, to relieve the vidette and to remain as vidette till day began to break, then to come back to our picket line.
The conversation, hurriedly carried on, had consumed but a few seconds' time; and in an instant after the causeway was clear again, only a vidette left under cover to signal the approach of the pursuers.
A videtteit was, stationed to watch the approaches and give warning to a larger force.
He extended his hand with a smile, saying as he did so: "A man would have given them first, and the story afterward; but this little maid feared we would forget the vidette if she delayed until afterward.
The enemy seems disposed to get possession of my vidette line, which I have maintained up to this time.
Two Troopers were left on guard, while the rest retired a couple of hundred yards around a bend in the road and put up the little dog tents, beginning at once the routine work of a vidette outpost.
The six men were divided in pairs, and each pair stood guard by the fluttering flag as vidette for two hours and then rested four, throughout the day and night.
So Bob took fresh heart, and continued to keep his eyes glued on the point of fire, which he knew marked the spot where the vidette sat.
But the boys felt sure that all the rustlers, except the vidette who had been first captured, were shut up in the bunk-house, and hence beyond power of doing any harm.
Yes, and unless his own ears had deceived him, he caught some sort of rustling sound up yonder where the vidette had his post.
Why not, if these rustlers are half as smart as they say, don’t you think they would be apt to have a vidette posted on the side of the mountain?
As the late vidette was carried into the ranch house, the employees of Circle Ranch clustered there, talking in low but significant tones.
Here was a vidette posted in a position where he could discover any suspicious movement below.
Among those whom I had learned to rely upon as truly loyal and counted as my friends, were Captain Wynn, who lived near our vidette picket post, and a lawyer named Jones, who frequently visited me in my quarters.
I do not wish to confound these Johnsons with one of the same name, who lived on the Washington road, near our vidette post.
The vidette passed, and then the main body of the guard came on.
The vidette followed us, stating that a large body of Spanish cavalry was approaching.
After remaining for some time near the tree unknown to each other, our vidette discovered that he had lost his cap-box, and commenced calling for the corporal.
The vidette is on the corner, and we do not need you!
Just as I turned a bend of the road, I came plump upon another sutler, and a cavalry vidette was by him.
I did not succeed in gaining the rear of the post, as I expected, having been discovered by a vidette when several hundred yards off, who fired, and gave the alarm, which compelled me to charge them in front.
I never spoke a word, and would have been far happier trudging through the snow back to camp, or even as a vidette on a picket post.
The enemy were led on by citizens and entered on foot by a bridle-path in rear of the post, capturing the vidette stationed on the road before he was able to give the alarm.
At this very spot, a few nights before, the vidette had been fired on by a scouting party of infantry that had come up from McClellan's camps below.
They listened anxiously for shots, and felt certain the vidette could not reach Mr Daveney's people in time, if attacked, never thinking of their own critical position in such a case.
But you are forgetting the vidette that galloped through the street at midnight," said Sophia.
Captain Forrest approached the outer pickets about daylight on Sunday morning, knocked the challenging vidette senseless with the handle of his sabre, and with ten athletic followers disarmed the reserves on the nearest post.
This left great gaps in my line of breastworks, unprotected by anything save a vidette or two.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vidette" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
