picaroon
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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
Salmon began to fall on the deck, heaved up on a picaroon.
From Poor Man's Rock by Frank Tenney Johnson
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
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
In this peculiar style, which may perhaps be regarded as an irregular descendant of the picaroon romance, Murger has no rival; and he is also, though on no extensive scale, a poet of great pathos.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
