Meanings of old dragoon in English

And Nell can hardly be afraid with you and her old dragoon dad to guard her.

The old dragoon had been promoted to be cashier of a weekly journal established by his nephew.

In the centre was the old dragoon hospital, and round it a mud wall was thrown up four feet high.

The seeds of divine doctrine fell into a soil prepared for them in the old dragoon, into whom the Devil had glided.

There's youth, there's mutual liking, there's wealth for them almost-onlysaddled with the encumbrance of an old dragoon, who won't be much in their way.

"The same to you, madame," replied the old dragoon as he went out.