picaroon
Example Sentences
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I observed wretched devils playing here, whose whole standing kit would not have brought a picaroon at vendue.
From Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Tyrone Power
The Athenæum necrologist accorded her half a column of obituary, in which she was described as "this pretty, picaroon woman, whose name can never be omitted from any chronicle of Bavaria."
From The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert by Horace Wyndham
My Soul alive, can't I maintain discipline in my own ship without a blacksmith of a boiler-riveter putting me to shame before a yellow-nosed picaroon.
From Soldiers Three - Part 2 by Rudyard Kipling
Nothing but the great need for secrecy had prevented more extended inland hospitalities to the brave Americanos who had destroyed the picaroon.
From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by W. O. Stoddard
But I never believed in them as devoutly as I believed in the destruction of that infernal picaroon.
From The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet by James Fenimore Cooper
