"Dragonnade" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... into the mountains and returned to bury the corpse, and take the prized, blood-stained Bible from the breast; the escapes and dangers of the two next generations; the few succeeding days of peace; and, finally, the Dragonnade, when the children had been snatched from the Durant family, and the father and mother had been driven at length to fly in utter destitution, and had made their way to England in a wretched, unprovisioned open boat. The ...
— The Young Step-Mother • Charlotte M. Yonge
... laughed. I, who had heard something from my father of King Lewis' treatment of his Huguenot subjects—of the Dragonnade, as it was called, and the sufferings of the poor people at the hands of the brutal soldiery—I, who knew of this, was shocked at the callous levity of the captain's speech; and I could have struck the fat, foolish face of the ...
— Humphrey Bold - A Story of the Times of Benbow • Herbert Strang |
