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  • Only once did he see a patrol of mounted dragoons.†   (source)
  • Simply put, I was dragooned.†   (source)
  • He often chose to sleep away the daylight hours some distance from the den site, perhaps in order to reduce the possibility of being dragooned into the role of babysitter at too frequent intervals.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • He dragooned me!†   (source)
  • Why, he was a gentleman, an officer of the King's Dragoons, a knight!†   (source)
  • Augustus drew his big dragoon Colt and jammed the barrel into Dan's stomach.†   (source)
  • Mike, do you have a voice to fit that Dragoon's name?†   (source)
  • He had died with his hands on a Dragoon's throat and his head still sporting a little red cap.†   (source)
  • At last was over and Dragoon officer left Alvarez.†   (source)
  • We have what used to be Dragoon barracks.†   (source)
  • I endured it with never a nasty word for Dragoons who searched me; wanted to get home.†   (source)
  • After a long time Alvarez left, flanked by four Dragoons he had fetched along for his health.†   (source)
  • Even a squad of Peace Dragoons thought twice before trying to "arrest" a small child.†   (source)
  • We quit inciting incidents with Dragoons-which did not stop them but reduced number.†   (source)
  • These Peace Dragoons had been sent to The Rock without a comfort detachment.†   (source)
  • Maybe she hated Authority and enjoyed teasing Peace Dragoons.†   (source)
  • When the dragoons charged, the marchers at the rear first knew nothing of it.†   (source)
  • "I have supposed that the items in the table of the Quarter Master's supplies and contingent expenses for the eight additional companies and privates to the old establishment and for the six additional companies of dragoons may be covered by the appropriations for the original army and that the 600 thousand dollars stated by the Quarter Master's Department for the 12 regiments will procure all the camp equipage not provided for by the table†   (source)
  • Perhaps it was below the dignity of fifty mounted dragoons to question a man, in climbing knickers, walking on a mountain road in the middle of the afternoon, or perhaps they simply did not care, but as they passed they increased their speed.†   (source)
  • "Stuff it," Dragoon officer answered.†   (source)
  • We heard about it at once; Mike called us three while Alvarez and Peace Dragoon C.O. were digging into matter in Alvarez's office.†   (source)
  • Nor did anybody hang around when three squads of Peace Dragoons showed up—this involves Heisenberg principle as applied to Scarlet Pimpernels.†   (source)
  • Beer, betting, women, and work— Only thing that kept Revolution from dying of anemia was that Peace Dragoons had real talent for antagonizing.†   (source)
  • Search of off-planet luggage was tight by then and conducted by bad-tempered Dragoons—but Stu was certain he would have no trouble.†   (source)
  • Party had grown slowly at first, then rapidly as powers-of-three began to be felt and also because Peace Dragoons were nastier than older bodyguard.†   (source)
  • I wiggled out of Prof's discipline and took a laser gun when second capsule of Peace Dragoons was due.†   (source)
  • Yes, we were beginning to have squads of Dragoons inside Luna city, but never less than a squad—some had gone in singly and not come back.†   (source)
  • Simon's" verse was doggerel, bawdy, subversive, ranging from poking fun at vips to savage attacks on Warden, system, Peace Dragoons, finks.†   (source)
  • But a mixed lot of Dragoons and yellows, thirteen, holed up with Mort, or perhaps were already with him; Mike's ability to follow events by listening was spotty.†   (source)
  • He reported subversive activities still going on despite two phalanges of Peace Dragoons and demanded enough troops to station guards in all key spots inside all warrens.†   (source)
  • Was a quick mutiny, quickly subdued, in Peace Dragoons regiment from which our late oppressors had come, one started by rumor that they were to be shipped to Moon.†   (source)
  • Midnight alarums made Peace Dragoons on passport watch much taken by yawning and more bad-tempered, which produced more clashes with Loonies and still greater resentment both ways—so Simon increased pressure.†   (source)
  • But by then Peace Dragoons had been dragged out twice in night on what seemed to be Warden's orders, further disrupting morale, and Warden became convinced he was surrounded by traitors in official family while they were sure he had blown every circult.†   (source)
  • Ninety plus eighteen men can't search a hundred kilometers of catapult in hours, especially when ninety are Peace Dragoons not used to p-suit work and hating it—this midnight came at new earth with Sun high; they were outside far longer than is healthy, managed to cook up their own accidents while almost cooking themselves, and showed nearest thing to mutiny in regiment's history.†   (source)
  • Six Dragoons were in it.†   (source)
  • She also knows that she has been dragooned into this outing for two purposes of display—because she is a knockout, as they say in the American movies that year, but also because by her presence, poise and language she can demonstrate to this distinguished guest, this dynamic helmsman of commerce, how fidelity to the principles of German culture and German breeding is capable of producing (and in such a quaint Slavic outback) the bewitching replica of a fraulein of whom not even the most committed racial purist in the Reich could disapprove.†   (source)
  • From the far end of the street to which the chase had taken them several dragoons were riding back abreast at a walk.†   (source)
  • She was furious with the dragoons, furious with the whole world, and at the moment even with her own son.†   (source)
  • Pasha had been with her all along, amusing her by cleverly mimicking the last speaker at the meeting, but had vanished suddenly in the confusion when the dragoons charged.†   (source)
  • Then the sun, setting behind the houses, pointed as though with a finger at everything red in the street-the red tops of the dragoons' caps, a red flag trailing on the ground, and the red specks and threads of blood on the snow.†   (source)
  • And a little farther down the street, the dragoons exercising in the yard of the Znamensky barracks-the chargers mincing in a circle, the men vaulting into the saddles and riding past, at a walk, at a trot, and at a gallop, and outside, the row of children with nurses and wet-nurses gaping through the railings.†   (source)
  • She should have been a general of dragoons herself.†   (source)
  • * Indeed, there were mair dragoons than lemons in my country in the year forty-six.†   (source)
  • Our infantry were stationed there, and at the farthest point the dragoons.†   (source)
  • The French dragoon was a young Alsatian who spoke French with a German accent.†   (source)
  • If George the vagabond dragoon had any hand in it, he was only an accomplice, and was set on.†   (source)
  • In an instant the fourteen hundred dragoon guards numbered only eight hundred.†   (source)
  • The dragoon and the Swiss followed him, and all their comrades followed the dragoon and the Swiss.†   (source)
  • He looked as pale as the midnight dragoon who came to disturb Leonora.†   (source)
  • "Draw sabers!" cried the dragoon officer, drawing his own.†   (source)
  • "O Gad—really—Miss Rebecca," the heavy dragoon interposed.†   (source)
  • Porthos and Aramis remained behind to encounter the jokes of the dragoon and the Swiss.†   (source)
  • The Scotch Grays no longer existed; Ponsonby's great dragoons had been hacked to pieces.†   (source)
  • "And what dream does she mean?" asked the dragoon, who had approached during the reading.†   (source)
  • Come here's grammar," the dragoon interposed.†   (source)
  • At that moment the dragoons and the crowd touched.†   (source)
  • "Saber him!" the dragoon officer almost whispered.†   (source)
  • The dragoon was about to repeat his blow.†   (source)
  • Rostov smilingly reassured the dragoon and gave him money.†   (source)
  • In that case the dragoons could successfully make a flank counterattack.†   (source)
  • In the next hut there was a French colonel who had been taken prisoner by our dragoons.†   (source)
  • Nearer and nearer in disorderly crowds came the Uhlans and the French dragoons pursuing them.†   (source)
  • Nearly all the French dragoons were galloping back.†   (source)
  • Three regiments have been here and spent the night, dragoons mostly.†   (source)
  • And as he spoke he saw a young man coming round the corner of the house between two dragoons.†   (source)
  • Two dragoons took it by its distorted legs and dragged it along the ground.†   (source)
  • It was a long time before the dragoons could extricate the bleeding youth, beaten almost to death.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • Martin sought to acquire a delight in giving long strong pulls all together, but he felt like a man who has been dragooned into wearing yellow tights at a civic pageant.†   (source)
  • I never budged so much as an inch till that thundering apparition had got within fifteen paces of me; then I snatched a dragoon revolver out of my holster, there was a flash and a roar, and the revolver was back in the holster before anybody could tell what had happened.†   (source)
  • The day comes unco soon in this month of July; and to-morrow there'll be a fine to-do in Appin, a fine riding of dragoons, and crying of 'Cruachan!'†   (source)
  • From now on, these weary dragoons of yours will keep the crown of the muirland, and none will get out of Appin but winged fowls.†   (source)
  • The soldiers let us be; although once a party of two companies and some dragoons went by in the bottom of the valley, where I could see them through the window as I lay in bed.†   (source)
  • The sun was not long up, and shone straight in our eyes; a little, thin mist went up from the face of the moorland like a smoke; so that (as Alan said) there might have been twenty squadron of dragoons there and we none the wiser.†   (source)
  • Wayne, in his celebrated campaign on the Miami, received the fire of his enemies in line; and then causing his dragoons to wheel round his flanks, the Indians were driven from their covers before they had time to load.†   (source)
  • "And what bastion is it?" asked a dragoon, with his saber run through a goose which he was taking to be cooked.†   (source)
  • In her bewilderment, she offered him first a wooden dragoon, and next a handful of marbles; neither of which being adapted to his else omnivorous appetite, she hastily held out her whole remaining stock of natural history in gingerbread, and huddled the small customer out of the shop.†   (source)
  • However, as he was a favorite with Cucumetto, as he had for three years faithfully served him, and as he had saved his life by shooting a dragoon who was about to cut him down, he hoped the chief would have pity on him.†   (source)
  • They believed that foreigners were dragooned and bayoneted; and though they certainly got their own skulls promptly fractured if they showed any ill-humour, still it was with a blunt instrument, and that didn't count.†   (source)
  • 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).†   (source)
  • Now, this gentleman had a younger brother of still better appearance than himself, who had tried life as a Cornet of Dragoons, and found it a bore; and had afterwards tried it in the train of an English minister abroad, and found it a bore; and had then strolled to Jerusalem, and got bored there; and had then gone yachting about the world, and got bored everywhere.†   (source)
  • It is the bould dragoon, ye mane?†   (source)
  • 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."†   (source)
  • The child with his sweet pranks, the fool of his senses, commanded by every sight and sound, without any power to compare and rank his sensations, abandoned to a whistle or a painted chip, to a lead dragoon, or a ginger-bread dog, individualizing everything, generalizing nothing, delighted with every new thing, lies down at night overpowered by the fatigue, which this day of continual petty madness has incurred.†   (source)
  • You're an independent dragoon, too!†   (source)
  • When I got to Casterbridge Barracks, they said, 'The Eleventh Dragoon-Guards be gone away, and new troops have come.'†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • On the first-floor of the house was a Bank—a surprising experience for any gentleman of commercial pursuits bringing laws for all mankind from a British city—where two spare clerks, like dried dragoons, in green velvet caps adorned with golden tassels, stood, bearded, behind a small counter in a small room, containing no other visible objects than an empty iron-safe with the door open, a jug of water, and a papering of garland of roses; but who, on lawful requisition, by merely dipping their hands out of sight, could produce exhaustless mounds of five-franc pieces.†   (source)
  • All has ended well, and I am happy to say I am going to be married to the young man who has courted me for some time—Sergeant Troy, of the 11th Dragoon Guards, now quartered in this town.†   (source)
  • At this moment two or three men were heard issuing from the door of the "Bold Dragoon," and among them the voice of Billy Kirby.†   (source)
  • A party of leaden dragoons were galloping along one of the shelves, in equipments and uniform of modern cut; and there were some sugar figures, with no strong resemblance to the humanity of any epoch, but less unsatisfactorily representing our own fashions than those of a hundred years ago.†   (source)
  • One of the most conspicuous of the chiefs who fought in the battle of Miami assured the writer, that the red men could not fight the warriors with "long knives and leather stockings"; meaning the dragoons with their sabers and boots.†   (source)
  • "I tell you it is too late; early this morning the telegraph was employed, and at this very minute"— "Sir," said the valet de chambre, entering the room, "a dragoon has brought this despatch from the minister of the interior."†   (source)
  • I have served as a dragoon in my day, and a comrade of mine that I was once rather partial to was, if I don't deceive myself, a brother of yours.†   (source)
  • On the 17th inst., at St. Ambrose's Church, Bath, by the Rev. G. Mincing, B.A., Francis Troy, only son of the late Edward Troy, Esq., M.D., of Weatherbury, and sergeant with Dragoon Guards, to Bathsheba, only surviving daughter of the late Mr. John Everdene, of Casterbridge.†   (source)
  • The village of Templeton at that time supported but two lawyers, one of whom was introduced to our readers in the bar-room of the "Bold Dragoon."†   (source)
  • For his merits in these—all more or less based upon his experiences as a dragoon-guardsman—Troy was taken into the company, and the play of Turpin was prepared with a view to his personation of the chief character.†   (source)
  • On one of the corners, where the two principal streets of Templeton intersected each other, stood, as we have already mentioned, the inn called the "Bold Dragoon".†   (source)
  • There was I a dragoon, roving, unsettled, not self-made like him, but self-unmade—all my earlier advantages thrown away, all my little learning unlearnt, nothing picked up but what unfitted me for most things that I could think of.†   (source)
  • The public, or as it was called, the "bar-room," of the Bold Dragoon," was a spacious apartment, lined on three sides with benches and on the fourth by fireplaces.†   (source)
  • "Perfectly," said the dragoon.†   (source)
  • Besides this, Wellington had, behind a rise in the ground, Somerset's Dragoon Guards, fourteen hundred horse strong.†   (source)
  • How could you help regarding as an incumbrance and a discredit to you an idle dragooning chap who was an incumbrance and a discredit to himself, excepting under discipline?†   (source)
  • For though I have purchased my discharge from Her Most Gracious Majesty's regiment of cavalry the 11th Dragoon Guards, to attend to the new duties awaiting me here, I shall continue a soldier in spirit and feeling as long as I live.†   (source)
  • : the rebellious dragoon was quite humbled and subdued, and became a most creditable younger brother.†   (source)
  • Some declare that a blast of trumpets sounding the charge was heard in the direction of the Arsenal others that a blow from a dagger was given by a child to a dragoon.†   (source)
  • But, as I was saying, take the whole coast along, I know it as well as the way from here to the Bold Dragoon; and a devil of acquaintance is that Bay of Biscay.†   (source)
  • And with this simple confession of faith, the love-stricken dragoon left her to execute his part of the project which she had formed for the pair.†   (source)
  • More than three hundred soldiers of all kinds were assembled at the gate of the camp; and in a separate group might be distinguished M. de Busigny, the dragoon, the Swiss, and the fourth bettor.†   (source)
  • It was a question of an officer of dragoons and a beauty:— "—The beauty pouted, and the dragoon—" Here she interrupted herself to wipe her glasses.†   (source)
  • The idea of this conversion set Rawdon into roars of laughter: you might have heard the explosion through the hotel at midnight, and the haw-haws of the great dragoon's voice.†   (source)
  • "Stop a bit," said the dragoon, placing his saber like a spit upon the two large iron dogs which held the firebrands in the chimney, "stop a bit, I am in it.†   (source)
  • Well, it's a charming sight to see ye, anyway, at the Bould Dragoon; and sure it's no harm to be kaping a Christmas eve wid a light heart, for it's no telling when we may have sorrow come upon us.†   (source)
  • Before them two squares, behind them Somerset; Somerset meant fourteen hundred dragoons of the guard.†   (source)
  • "There!" said the dragoon.†   (source)
  • How can a man stand up and be preaching his word, when all that he is saying is written down, and he is as much tied to it as iver a thaving dragoon was to the pickets?†   (source)
  • And are we to expect a heavy dragoon with strong desires and small brains, who had never controlled a passion in his life, to become prudent all of a sudden, and to refuse to pay any price for an indulgence to which he had a mind?†   (source)
  • This was a fearful rival to the" Bold Dragoon," as our readers will the more readily perceive when we add that the same sonorous names were to be seen over a newly erected store in the village, a hatter's shop, and the gates of a tan-yard.†   (source)
  • That final paragraph, which referred Rawdon to Miss Crawley's solicitor in London, and which Briggs had written so good-naturedly, consoled the dragoon and his wife somewhat, after their first blank disappointment, on reading the spinster's refusal of a reconciliation.†   (source)
  • Dragoons, Swiss, Guardsmen, Musketeers, light-horsemen, succeeded one another with a rapidity which might answer the purpose of the host very well, but agreed badly with the views of the four friends.†   (source)
  • The men who were dragging Lafayette suddenly caught sight of them at the corner of the quay and shouted: "The dragoons!"†   (source)
  • For ten or fifteen minutes the different individuals, who intended either to bestow or receive edification before the fires of the "Bold Dragoon" on that evening, were collecting, until the benches were nearly filled with men of different occupations.†   (source)
  • Miss Sharp loved the smell of a cigar out of doors beyond everything in the world—and she just tasted one too, in the prettiest way possible, and gave a little puff, and a little scream, and a little giggle, and restored the delicacy to the Captain, who twirled his moustache, and straightway puffed it into a blaze that glowed quite red in the dark plantation, and swore—"Jove—aw—Gad—aw—it's the finest segaw I ever smoked in the world aw," for his intellect and conversation were alike brilliant and becoming to a heavy young dragoon.†   (source)
  • Enjolras and his friends had been on the Boulevard Bourdon, near the public storehouses, at the moment when the dragoons had made their charge.†   (source)
  • And so, making his last dispositions, Captain Crawley, who had seldom thought about anything but himself, until the last few months of his life, when Love had obtained the mastery over the dragoon, went through the various items of his little catalogue of effects, striving to see how they might be turned into money for his wife's benefit, in case any accident should befall him.†   (source)
  • At Weltingen he received into his arms, beneath a storm of bullets, Colonel Maupetit, mortally wounded at the head of the 9th Dragoons.†   (source)
  • At the first stroke of the bell, Richard issued from the door of the "Bold Dragoon," flourishing a sheathed sword, that he was fond of saying his ancestors had carried in one of Cromwell's victories, and crying, in an authoritative tone, to "clear the way for the court."†   (source)
  • Rawdon Crawley, on the other hand, like a selfish heavy dragoon as he was, never took the least trouble to conciliate his aunt's aides-de-camp, showed his contempt for the pair with entire frankness—made Firkin pull off his boots on one occasion—sent her out in the rain on ignominious messages—and if he gave her a guinea, flung it to her as if it were a box on the ear.†   (source)
  • It was a question of an officer of dragoons and a beauty:— "—The beauty pouted, and the dragoon—" Here she interrupted herself to wipe her glasses.†   (source)
  • It was fortunate for more than one of the bacchanalians who left the "Bold Dragoon" late in the evening that the severe cold of the season was becoming rapidly less dangerous as they threaded the different mazes through the snow-banks that led to their respective dwellings.†   (source)
  • The elder and younger son of the house of Crawley were, like the gentleman and lady in the weather-box, never at home together—they hated each other cordially: indeed, Rawdon Crawley, the dragoon, had a great contempt for the establishment altogether, and seldom came thither except when his aunt paid her annual visit.†   (source)
  • Benjamin had evidently been anticipating the seizure of his money, for he had made frequent demands on the favorite cask at the "Bold Dragoon," during the afternoon and evening, and was now in that state which by marine imagery is called "half-seas-over."†   (source)
  • The dragoons advanced at a walk, in silence, with their pistols in their holsters, their swords in their scabbards, their guns slung in their leather sockets, with an air of gloomy expectation.†   (source)
  • Mr. Mango and Lady Mary Mango were there, with the dear young Gwendoline and Guinever Mango as bridesmaids; Colonel Bludyer of the Dragoon Guards (eldest son of the house of Bludyer Brothers, Mincing Lane), another cousin of the bridegroom, and the Honourable Mrs. Bludyer; the Honourable George Boulter, Lord Levant's son, and his lady, Miss Mango that was; Lord Viscount Castletoddy; Honourable James McMull and Mrs. McMull (formerly Miss Swartz); and a host of fashionables, who have all married into Lombard Street and done a great deal to ennoble Cornhill.†   (source)
  • In the meantime, the municipal cavalry on the left bank had been set in motion, and came to bar the bridge, on the right bank the dragoons emerged from the Celestins and deployed along the Quai Morland.†   (source)
  • Previously to the occurrence of the scene at the "Bold Dragoon," Elizabeth had been safely reconducted to the mansion-house, where she was left as its mistress, either to amuse or employ herself during the evening as best suited her own inclinations.†   (source)
  • It is from this aptitude, perfected by a military education, which certain special branches of the service arise, the dragoons, for example, who are both cavalry-men and infantry at one and the same time.†   (source)
  • All these particulars were easily to be seen by the aid of the moon, together with a row of somewhat illegible writing in black paint, but in which Elizabeth, to whom the whole was familiar, read with facility, "The Bold Dragoon."†   (source)
  • The French dragoon officer was hopping with one foot on the ground, the other being caught in the stirrup.†   (source)
  • The Colonel won; but, say that he won ever so much and often, nights like these, which occurred many times in the week—his wife having all the talk and all the admiration, and he sitting silent without the circle, not comprehending a word of the jokes, the allusions, the mystical language within—must have been rather wearisome to the ex-dragoon.†   (source)
  • They are bringing another!" cried one of the officers, indicating a captive French dragoon who was being brought in on foot by two Cossacks.†   (source)
  • The main street, after running about half its length, was suddenly reduced for precisely that difference in its width; and "Bold Dragoon" became, next to the mansion-house, by far the most conspicuous edifice in the place.†   (source)
  • Quiot retreats before Vivian, Kellermann before Vandeleur, Lobau before Bulow, Morand before Pirch, Domon and Subervic before Prince William of Prussia; Guyot, who led the Emperor's squadrons to the charge, falls beneath the feet of the English dragoons.†   (source)
  • It was slep in the night afore last by the Honorable Capting Famish, of the Fiftieth Dragoons, whose Mar took him out, after a fortnight, jest to punish him, she said.†   (source)
  • youth was a bouquet; every young man terminated in a branch of lilacs or a tuft of roses; whether he was a shepherd or a warrior; and if, by chance, one was a captain of dragoons, one found means to call oneself Florian.†   (source)
  • The knotty point was, however, soon decided; and, on the appointed day, the brotherhood marched in great state, displaying sundry banners and mysterious symbols, each man with a little mimic apron before him, from a most cunningly contrived apartment in the garret of the "Bold Dragoon," an inn kept by one Captain Hollister, to the site of the intended edifice.†   (source)
  • He saw the frightened and then infuriated face of the dragoon who dealt the blow, the look of silent, timid reproach that boy in the fur-lined coat had turned upon him.†   (source)
  • Young Feltham, of the —th Dragoons (and son of the firm of Tiler and Feltham, hatters and army accoutrement makers), and whom the Crawleys introduced into fashionable life, was also cited as one of Becky's victims in the pecuniary way.†   (source)
  • He rode off at a walk to the right and sent an adjutant to the dragoons with orders to attack the French.†   (source)
  • in their saddles, with their trumpets at their head, cartridge-boxes filled and muskets loaded, all in readiness to march; in the Latin country and at the Jardin des Plantes, the Municipal Guard echelonned from street to street; at the Halle-aux-Vins, a squadron of dragoons; at the Greve half of the 12th Light Infantry, the other half being at the Bastille; the 6th Dragoons at the Celestins; and the courtyard of the Louvre full of artillery.†   (source)
  • But 'tis as it is; and if Squire Dickens will just be so good as to overhaul this small bit of an account, and take enough from the bag to settle the same, he's welcome to hold on upon the rest, till such time as the Leather-Stocking can grapple with them said beaver, or, for that matter, forever, and no thanks asked," As Benjamin concluded, he thrust out the wooden register of his arrears to the " Bold Dragoon" with one hand, while he offered his bag of dollars with the other.†   (source)
  • The dragoons were now close at hand.†   (source)
  • At twelve precisely a drum beat the "long roll ' before the" Bold Dragoon," and Richard appeared, accompanied by Captain Hollister, who was clad in Investments as commander of the "Templeton Light Infantry," when the former demanded of the latter the aid of the posse comitatus in enforcing the laws of the country.†   (source)
  • The fact is, that three shots were suddenly discharged: the first killed Cholet, chief of the squadron, the second killed an old deaf woman who was in the act of closing her window, the third singed the shoulder of an officer; a woman screamed: "They are beginning too soon!" and all at once, a squadron of dragoons which had remained in the barracks up to this time, was seen to debouch at a gallop with bared swords, through the Rue Bassompierre and the Boulevard Bourdon, sweeping all before them.†   (source)
  • Rostov, with his keen sportsman's eye, was one of the first to catch sight of these blue French dragoons pursuing our Uhlans.†   (source)
  • The counter-police of the chateau had denounced to her Royal Highness Madame, the portrait, everywhere exhibited, of M. the Duc d'Orleans, who made a better appearance in his uniform of a colonel-general of hussars than M. the Duc de Berri, in his uniform of colonel-general of dragoons— a serious inconvenience.†   (source)
  • But, either because too much was attempted to be executed well, or that the "Bold Dragoon" had established a reputation which could not be easily shaken, not only Judge Temple and his friends, but most of the villagers also, who were not in debt to the powerful firm we have named, frequented the inn of Captain Hollister on all occasions where such a house was necessary On the present evening the limping veteran and his consort were hardly housed after their return from the academy, when the sounds of stamping feet at their threshold announced the approach of visitors, who were probably assembling with a view to compare opinions on the subject of the ceremonies they had witnessed.†   (source)
  • A few minutes later an officer came hurriedly out of the front door, gave an order, and the dragoons formed up in line.†   (source)
  • Then all is said, the tempest is loosed, stones rain down, a fusillade breaks forth, many precipitate themselves to the bottom of the bank, and pass the small arm of the Seine, now filled in, the timber-yards of the Isle Louviers, that vast citadel ready to hand, bristle with combatants, stakes are torn up, pistol-shots fired, a barricade begun, the young men who are thrust back pass the Austerlitz bridge with the hearse at a run, and the municipal guard, the carabineers rush up, the dragoons ply their swords, the crowd disperses in all directions, a rumor of war flies to all four quarters of Paris, men shout: "To arms!" they run, tumble down, flee, resist.†   (source)
  • As this was bringing raw troops, at once, to face their enemy, it is not to be supposed that the manoeuver was executed with their usual accuracy; but as the music struck up the inspiring air of Yankee-doodle, and Richard, accompanied by Mr. Doolittle preceded the troops boldly down the street, Captain Hollister led on, with his head elevated to forty-five degrees, with a little, low cocked hat perched on his crown, carrying a tremendous dragoon sabre at a poise, and trailing at his heels a huge steel scabbard, that had war in its very clattering.†   (source)
  • During the continuance of his cousin's dejection, Mr. Jones forebore, with much consideration, to press on his attention a business that each hour was drawing nearer to the heart of the sheriff, and which, if any opinion could he formed by his frequent private conferences with the man who was introduced in these pages by the name of Jotham, at the bar-room of the Bold Dragoon, was becoming also of great importance.†   (source)
  • A painstaking police officer, considering the presence of a corpse in his excellency's courtyard unseemly, told the dragoons to take it away.†   (source)
  • Who would have said that I should be a soldier and a captain of dragoons in the service of Bonaparte, as we used to call him?†   (source)
  • You may remember, Aggy, when I painted the sign of the bold dragoon for Captain Hollister there was that fellow, who was about town laying brick-dust on the houses, came one day and offered to mix what I call the streaky black, for the tail and mane; and then, because it looks like horse-hair, he tells everybody that the sign was painted by himself and Squire Jones.†   (source)
  • Indeed, it says as much as that they were chosen men; quite likely volunteers; for raw dragoons seldom strike with the edge of their swords, particularly if the weapon be any way crooked.†   (source)
  • He saw the dragoons near and that they were galloping in disorder; he knew they could not withstand an attack—knew there was only that moment and that if he let it slip it would not return.†   (source)
  • With the same feeling with which he had galloped across the path of a wolf, Rostov gave rein to his Donets horse and galloped to intersect the path of the dragoons' disordered lines.†   (source)
  • As to the captain, if he had only called up the guard of dragoons when he rallied the foot, they would have shown the inimy what the edge of a sword was; for, although there was no commissioned officer with them, yet I think I must say," the veteran continued, stiffening his cravat about his throat, and raising himself up with tile air of a drill-sergeant, "they were led by a man who knowed how to bring them on.†   (source)
  • He touched his horse, gave the word of command, and immediately, hearing behind him the tramp of the horses of his deployed squadron, rode at full trot downhill toward the dragoons.†   (source)
  • On all sides, the hussars were busy with the dragoons; one was wounded, but though his face was bleeding, he would not give up his horse; another was perched up behind an hussar with his arms round him; a third was being helped by an hussar to mount his horse.†   (source)
  • Hardly had they reached the bottom of the hill before their pace instinctively changed to a gallop, which grew faster and faster as they drew nearer to our Uhlans and the French dragoons who galloped after them.†   (source)
  • One of these was running to cross the path of Count Rostopchin's carriage, and the count himself, his coachman, and his dragoons looked with vague horror and curiosity at these released lunatics and especially at the one running toward them.†   (source)
  • But this adjutant returned half an hour later with the news that the commander of the dragoons had already retreated beyond the dip in the ground, as a heavy fire had been opened on him and he was losing men uselessly, and so had hastened to throw some sharpshooters into the wood.†   (source)
  • He felt instinctively that if the hussars struck at the French dragoons now, the latter could not withstand them, but if a charge was to be made it must be done now, at that very moment, or it would be too late.†   (source)
  • He'll explain"...voices in the rear of the crowd were suddenly heard saying, and the general attention turned to the police superintendent's trap which drove into the square attended by two mounted dragoons.†   (source)
  • They swooped down close to the French dragoons, something confused happened there amid the smoke, and five minutes later our Uhlans were galloping back, not to the place they had occupied but more to the left, and among the orange-colored Uhlans on chestnut horses and behind them, in a large group, blue French dragoons on gray horses could be seen.†   (source)
  • Below the height on which the Kiev regiment was stationed, in the hollow where the rivulet flowed, the soul-stirring rolling and crackling of musketry was heard, and much farther to the right beyond the dragoons, the officer of the suite pointed out to Bagration a French column that was outflanking us.†   (source)
  • You talked of expected horrors in London—and instead of instantly conceiving, as any rational creature would have done, that such words could relate only to a circulating library, she immediately pictured to herself a mob of three thousand men assembling in St. George's Fields, the Bank attacked, the Tower threatened, the streets of London flowing with blood, a detachment of the Twelfth Light Dragoons (the hopes of the nation) called up from Northampton to quell the insurgents, and the gallant Captain Frederick Tilney, in the moment of charging at the head of his troop, knocked off his horse by a brickbat from an upper window.†   (source)
  • He bought his commission in the mid-thirties-1730s, that is—and served as a captain of dragoons.†   (source)
  • And about the young English dragoon with the pale, spotty face, dying against the snow.†   (source)
  • It was a dragoon's coat, an officer's coat.†   (source)
  • "We saw the mill from above," the dragoon said, "and thought perhaps to purchase a sack of meal?"†   (source)
  • He met six dragoons face-to-face round a turn in the path, and one recognized him.†   (source)
  • One of the dragoons hit me in the head wi' the stock of his musket.†   (source)
  • I am, madam, Jonathan Randall, Esquire, Captain of His Majesty's Eighth Dragoons.†   (source)
  • Dragoons, six of them, on horseback, making their way carefully down the hill toward the mill-house.†   (source)
  • Apparently I had come upon the end of the confrontation between Dougal's men and Randall's dragoons.†   (source)
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