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Definition

a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen

or:

force someone to do something; or subjugate by imposing troops

He was one of the dragoons who accompanied Napoleon into Egypt.

dragoons = a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymen

In this state they set forth with the sharp rain driving in their faces: clattering at a heavy dragoon trot over the uneven town pavement, and out upon the mire-deep roads.
Charles Dickens -- A Tale Of Two Cities
His attempt to recruit Irish soldiers captured by the Germans and dragoon them into fighting the British proved a wretched fiasco
Time Magazine, 1974 -- http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,908451-2,00.html (retrieved 09/02/09)
Only once did he see a patrol of mounted dragoons.
Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
"And what bastion is it?" asked a dragoon, with his saber run through a goose which he was taking to be cooked.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
Now and then, indeed, where was a big bush of heather, we lay awhile, and panted, and putting aside the leaves, looked back at the dragoons.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Kidnapped
You remember Dr. Bulkeley told us he used to be a captain of the dragoons in Barbados.
Elizabeth George Speare -- The Witch of Blackbird Pond
At the Middle Dutch Church they pulled out the pulpit, the pews, and the floorboards and let the horses of the Light Dragoons practice.
Laurie Halse Anderson -- Chains
You're an independent dragoon, too!
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
She should have been a general of dragoons herself.
Virginia Woolf -- Mrs. Dalloway
They simply did not concern her—at least until as his dragooned secretary she began to divine the depth and extent of her father's fiery enthusiasm.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
Simply put, I was dragooned.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
New bodyguards, instead of picked from new transportees, were elite convict troops, Federated Nations crack Peace Dragoons.
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
It is the bould dragoon, ye mane?
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pioneers
When I got to Casterbridge Barracks, they said, 'The Eleventh Dragoon-Guards be gone away, and new troops have come.'
Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
Our infantry were stationed there, and at the farthest point the dragoons.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
It was an old Colt dragoon with a seven-inch barrel and, as he was fond of saying, weighed about as much as the leg he strapped it to.
Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
He was fond of saying, "There is a bravery of the priest as well as the bravery of a colonel of dragoons,—only," he added, "ours must be tranquil."
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
Amused by their terror, the dragoon was making his horse perform volts and pirouettes, backing it into the crowd and making it rear slowly as in a circus turn.
Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
The Captain had written her notes (the best that the great blundering dragoon could devise and spell; but dulness gets on as well as any other quality with women).
William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair

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