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a member of a European military unit formerly composed of heavily armed cavalrymenor:
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 fiascoTime 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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