picaroon

Example Sentences

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But if one is insane, if one has inherited one's grandfather's characteristics as idler, loafer, lounger, dreamer, lover or picaroon, what then?

From A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago by Hecht, Ben

I stopped 'em back there a ways with my picaroon, when they sung out, an' they walked down here on the side planks.

From The Spinner's Book of Fiction by Various

Oh, don't pause, sister!" squeaked terrified Julie, "here's where that picaroon in the black mask was wont to hide.

From The ghosts of their ancestors by Mills, Weymer Jay

The skipper peered beneath his palm and swore by the Great Horn Spoon: — "'Fore Gad, the Chaplain of the Fleet would bless my picaroon!"

From Verses 1889-1896 by Kipling, Rudyard

MacRae threw open his hatches and counted the salmon as they came flipping off the point of a picaroon.

From Poor Man's Rock by Johnson, Frank Tenney