picaroon
Example Sentences
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The commander was a calm-tempered man, accustomed to disappointment, or he might have joined with some of the younger officers in their expressions of disgust at having lost the picaroon.
From The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley by William Henry Giles Kingston
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 Rudyard Kipling
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
"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
