picaroon

Example Sentences

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On the way from Genoa to Messina Irving's vessel was boarded by a piratical picaroon.

From Washington Irving by Boynton, Henry Walcott

His helper forked up salmon with a picaroon.

From Poor Man's Rock by Johnson, Frank Tenney

"Better than I did," says I, speaking on impulse, "for sure you are the strangest picaroon that ever cheated the gallows."

From Black Bartlemy's Treasure by Farnol, Jeffery

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 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 Power, Tyrone