I am colonel of a dragoon regiment, and I inspect it, sometimes, or ride in front of it at a general review.

Some of the lesser ones, such as those for furnishing mules, dragoon-horses, and forage, were granted arbitrarily to relatives or friends of members who were wavering upon that question.

CAZALÈS, a member of French Constituent Assembly, a dragoon captain, a fervid, eloquent orator of royalism, who "earned thereby," says Carlyle, "the shadow of a name" (1758-1805).

On arriving at the farm, he gave the alarm, and, seizing an old dragoon sabre, he was followed to the scene of action by Mr. James Burke, armed with a gun, and the other man with an axe.

I stepped on to a block, from there to a stump, put my foot into the stirrup, and clumsily raised myself into the seat of an old dragoon saddle.

One was armed with a heavy dragoon sword; the other with a light rapier, which he used with extraordinary skill.

" "General Wallingford has got a light-dragoon regimentgeneral Meredith has my old corps; he is now in this country, at the head of one of Gage's brigades.

No doubt you would take very good care of him, but I doubt whether your father would like the Bishop to hear of himunder the circumstancesgoing to disport himself at the dragoon mess.

His pen rushed over the paper like a dragoon charge, nor was once laid aside till both letter and address were finished.

They stood facing the woods, lances poised, for about ten minutes, when a general officer with dragoon escort came galloping down the road and through the meadow toward McDunn's battery.

Nobody was ever ordered out for execution for wearing black gloves, although they are unusual, and now and then one sees a woman, whose soul is set on novelty, gorgeous in yellow cavalry gauntlets, or even with white dragoon gauntlets, making her look like a badly focused photograph.

He limped along in his high dragoon boots, walking with the wide-legged gait of one who had bestraddled leather for many hours and was sore from it.

to think the mercenary old hunks could dream of sacrificing my lovely Lucy to such a hobgoblin of a fellow as a superannuated dragoon quartermaster, with a beak like Bardolph's in the play.