For instance, on a dark night, a Vedette, stationed by a thick underbrush, heard a cow-bell approaching him, and supposing that the accompanying rustle of leaves and crackling of dry limbs was occasioned by a bovine friend, unwittingly suffered himself to be captured by a bushwhacker.
"Three Years in the Federal Cavalry"
Willard Glazier
The two hours expire, relief comes, and the Vedette returns to spend his four, six, or eight hours off post, as best he may.
"Three Years in the Federal Cavalry"
Willard Glazier
We see up here on the fringe of things the dour and canny but exceedingly humorous Adam McBeaths, John Lee Lewises, and George Simpsons, the outer Vedette of the British Empire; and, seeing them, get some half-way adequate conception of what a modicum of rum or "strong spirits of any kind" meant in the way of cheer at old Fort Simpson in those days.
"The New North"
Agnes Deans Cameron