Longfellow's Evangeline and Gabriel, e.g

Usage examples of acadians.

If the latter had lived at Grand Pre, she would, I trust, have made it hot for the brutal English who drove the Acadians out of their salt-marsh paradise, and have died in her heroic shoes rather than float off into poetry.

Yankee settlers, we were told, possess it now, and there are no descendants of the French Acadians in this valley.

The Acadians revealed the plot, and the two soldiers were shot at Mount Desert.

The bands of the Fifth Virginia and of the Acadians will be there to play, alternating.

The Virginia band and the Acadians carried on an intense but friendly rivalry, playing with all the spirit and vigor of men who were anxious to please.

It was a joy to Harry when he was not dancing to watch them, especially the Acadians, whose faces glowed as the dancers and their own bodies swayed to the music they were making.

It was the Acadians who were playing now, some strange old dance tune that they had brought from far Louisiana, taken thence by the way of Nova Scotia from its origin in old France.

Boys and girls in America are familiar with the story of the dispersion of the Acadians, a century and more later, as preserved in our literature by the poet Longfellow.