Oram, the intrepid flume-herder, laughed, dug his picaroon into a log, and asked.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference

The space-axe -- a combination and sublimation of battle-axe, mace, bludgeon, and lumberman's picaroon, a massively needle-pointed implement of potentialities limited only by the physical strength and bodily agility of its wielder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Galactic Patrol]

"'Fore Gad, the Chaplain of the Fleet would bless my picaroon!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Departmental Ditties & Barrack Room Ballads] Reference

Isla made a Spanish version of the picaroon romance, "Gil Blas", of the Frenchman Le.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

On the way from Genoa to Messina Irving's vessel was boarded by a piratical picaroon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Washington Irving] Reference

He, the picaroon, companion of rogues and small marauders, had seen many and diverse love affairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California] Reference

"Better than I did," says I, speaking on impulse, "for sure you are the strangest picaroon that ever cheated the gallows.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Bartlemy's Treasure] Reference

He left behind him a son, who is at present a notary, and outwardly very devout, but a greater hypocrite and picaroon does not exist.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula] Reference

The picaroon strain, already made familiar in Spain by the "Lazarillo de Tormes" and its successors, appears in one or another of them especially in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference

I may make an imbroglio sometimes, but, for getting out of a scrape, I would back myself against any picaroon in the Levant; and that is saying a good deal. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tancred Or, The New Crusade] Reference

Benedict Arnold, after a life as varied, as shady, and as adventurous as that of any picaroon in a Spanish story, leaped into fame as a daring spirit by the way in which he and.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4)] Reference

Then the seas were scourged and the coasts vexed by the war-ships and privateers of the hostile powers; and the intervals of peace were troubled by the ravages of pirate and picaroon.    From Wordnik.com.  [VII. The Growth of the Colonial Seaport. 1691-1720.] Reference

The circumstances attending this important success are as follows: Understanding that the celebrated picaroon had been on the Neapolitan and Roman coasts, doing much mischief, I took his.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley] Reference

The mouths of navigable rivers were still infested with pirates; and as the hoy containing Pett approached the Nore about three o'clock in the morning, and while still dark, she came upon a Dunkirk picaroon, full of men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men of Invention and Industry] Reference

And, look, thou red picaroon, to what obscure fate thou hast stolen me! ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Cabbages and Kings] Reference

"Inspiration to do which," he proceeded gravely, "came to me from the seafaring picaroon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Bag] Reference

A Spanish picaroon in the laughing eyes of the English apprentice; and, with a little more warmth and sunniness of skin on the side of the latter, the resemblance between them would have been complete.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack Sheppard A Romance] Reference

Glimmung in reply to a comment from picaroon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Election Central Morning Roundup] Reference

PorkBelly in reply to a comment from picaroon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Election Central Morning Roundup] Reference

A picaroon or pirate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference

To caravel and picaroon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Songs from Books] Reference

His helper forked up salmon with a picaroon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poor Man's Rock] Reference

“Kennelled in the picaroon a weary band were we.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Chantey] Reference

French picaroon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rover's Secret A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba] Reference

12. picaroon.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spelling-Book for Advanced Classes] Reference

Posted by picaroon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Election Central Morning Roundup] Reference

"Oh, say, take the picaroon, won't you?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Poor Man's Rock] Reference

"Kennelled in the picaroon a weary band were we.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven Seas] Reference

‘parasol’, ‘parroquet’, ‘peccadillo’, ‘picaroon’, ‘platina’, ‘poncho’.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Past and Present] Reference