picaroon
Example Sentences
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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
That there picaroon that we sunk to-day was as large a craft as I ever heard o' their usin'.
From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by W. O. Stoddard
"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 Jeffery Farnol
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
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
