Dragoons
Try
Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.
Both words in one sentence
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When a group of Peace Dragoons raped and killed a woman, the whole Moon rose in arms before Alvarez could hang them to try and calm the people.
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This is later subverted however, when Benjamin and his militia first try out their no-killing policy - and are promptly counter-ambushed by Colonel Tavington's Dragoons, thus suggesting their previous ruthlessness was entirely justified.
Source: Film / The Patriot
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