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"Is our reconnoitrer returned?" asked the count of the two who remained.

From The Daughter of an Empress by Greene, Nathaniel

The circle of observation is then gradually enlarged, till it is thirty or forty yards in circumference, when the earnest reconnoitrer disappears, to return again in a short time with something for the general good.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 443 Volume 17, New Series, June 26, 1852 by Chambers, William

Tearfully she thanked the trusty reconnoitrer as for a kindness to herself, dwelling on the tokens of relenting, yet trembling at the tidings of the malady. 

From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary