The Jacobites numbered at most 5,000 men, while the Government army facing them was perhaps 8,000 strong, including 800 mounted dragoons. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
The dragoon was the first to resume the conversation. From Wordnik.com. [The Tiger Hunter] Reference
A dragoon is a mounted soldier who attacks mounted, and fights dismounted in the defense. From Wordnik.com. [Lock n' Loaded: Cracking Down on Bike Theft] Reference
In the corner opposite the dragoon was a boy of eighteen or so in the working clothes of a terrassier or labourer. From Wordnik.com. [The Soul of the War] Reference
Her podcast mentioning "dragoon" had to come from here. From Wordnik.com. [Red Letter Challenge -update] Reference
As the afternoon stretched out into evening, they would mull over words such as dragoon, cabal, strauss and enterprise. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-29] Reference
The word "dragoon" was a thorn in my tenderest part that rankled and lacerated at every stir. From Wordnik.com. [Charles O'Malley — Volume 1] Reference
Behind him stood his wife, his left the big dragoon. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
The fellow was once a dragoon; he proposed the sabre. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"You don't know what a good fellow Joe is," said the dragoon. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
When the Count appears in the guise of a half-drunken dragoon, the. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Every man in France is envying the young dragoon officer, Lieutenant. From Wordnik.com. [Paris War Days Diary of an American] Reference
And here the dragoon being blown, took a large glass of claret; and when. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
Running to the window, I saw two men on horseback in dragoon equipments. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference
At a sign from Dolores the big dragoon came also, and put himself behind her. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
A dragoon horse and arms might be compounded for by payment of half that sum. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
He knew them to be his wife's brothers, one a dragoon, the other a musketeer. From Wordnik.com. [Types of Children's Literature] Reference
Leaving my dragoon friend to act as master of the ceremonies, I sallied forth. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844] Reference
He opened the door and shouted, and in came a bronzed dragoon in civilian costume. From Wordnik.com. [VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea] Reference
And so saying, the dragoon, followed by most of the party, made his way to the front door. From Wordnik.com. [Belles and Ringers] Reference
The Mounted Rifles were changed into the 3d Cavalry, and the two dragoon regiments into the. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Hadria also suspected Marion Jordan, well-drilled though she was by her dragoon of a mother. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
The yelling and the dash of the lancers and dragoon guards was a thing never to be forgotten. From Wordnik.com. [Tommy Atkins at War As Told in His Own Letters] Reference
He started; but, with assumed indifference, observed, "What sad news the dragoon has brought!". From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850] Reference
Swedish uniforms; and as I told you before, that dragoon could swear in downright good German. '. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Carpenters of Freiberg A Tale of the Thirty Years' War] Reference
It was Aida, whose bridle was held by a dragoon, that served as a model for the artist's pencil. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"What nonsense!" rejoined the dragoon, a little staggered, all the same, by his mother's argument. From Wordnik.com. [Belles and Ringers] Reference
Sandy was beddit on the back o 'ten o'clock, an' he was snorin 'like a dragoon when I gaed up the stair. From Wordnik.com. [My Man Sandy] Reference
He got intil his bed efter a quarter o 'an oor's miscellaneous scramblin', an 'was sune snorin' like a dragoon. From Wordnik.com. [My Man Sandy] Reference
Our helmets in England, for the dragoon guards, are too heavy, too theatrical; there is no life and spirit in them. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference
The challenge came from the dragoon, who, as soon as he heard it accepted, proceeded to lighten himself for his task. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
"We always lose knives and forks and crockery when we move like this," Manning was saying in his heavy-dragoon voice. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
Why, oh, why had she persuaded that graceless dragoon to leave Aldershot and share the peace and tranquillity of home?. From Wordnik.com. [Belles and Ringers] Reference
"Perfectly right, Miss Chipchase," replied the dragoon, with a glance of unmistakable admiration at the new importation. From Wordnik.com. [Belles and Ringers] Reference
Shelley, at the gates of Pisa, threw himself between him and the dragoon, whose sword in his indignation was lifted and about to strike. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866] Reference
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