BLOCK: Thoughts from public radio's picaroon of drollery, Brian Unger. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Off the island of Planoca it was overpowered and captured by a little picaroon, with lateen sails and a couple of guns, and a most villainous crew, in poverty-stricken garments, rusty cutlasses in their hands and stilettos and pistols stuck in their waistbands. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Janet looked at him with the sly simplicity of her sect, and replied, “Notwithstanding thy boasted honesty, friend, and although I am not accustomed to read and pass judgment on such volumes as thou hast submitted to my perusal, I think I see in thy countenance something of the pedlar-something of the picaroon.” ❋ Unknown (2004)
As to the picaroon or privateer, she was able to do little in the matter, not daring to come so near the men-of-war as to take a broadside, which her thin sides would not have been able to bear, but would have sent her to the bottom at once; so that the English men-of-war had no assistance from her, nor could she prevent the taking the two merchant-ships. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I stopped 'em back there a ways with my picaroon, when they sung out, an 'they walked down here on the side planks. ❋ Various (N/A)
Oram, the intrepid flume-herder, laughed, dug his picaroon into a log, and asked: ❋ Various (N/A)
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. ❋ Smith, E. E. (1950)
_Athenæum_ necrologist accorded her half a column of obituary, in which she was described as "this pretty, picaroon woman, whose name can never be omitted from any chronicle of Bavaria." ❋ Horace Wyndham (N/A)
But if one is insane, if one has inherited one's grandfather's characteristics as idler, loafer, lounger, dreamer, lover or picaroon, what then? ❋ Ben Hecht (1929)
Salmon began to fall on the deck, heaved up on a picaroon. ❋ Bertrand W. Sinclair (1926)
MacRae threw open his hatches and counted the salmon as they came flipping off the point of a picaroon. ❋ Bertrand W. Sinclair (1926)
"Better than I did," says I, speaking on impulse, "for sure you are the strangest picaroon that ever cheated the gallows." ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)
Gutiérre de Cetina (1520-60); Mateo Alemán, the well-known author of the picaroon novel, "Guzmán de Alfarache", who published in Mexico, in 1609, his "Ortografia castellana"; and possibly Juan de la Cueva, the first thorough-going dramatist, actor, and stage manager of the ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Isla made a Spanish version of the picaroon romance, "Gil Blas", of the Frenchman Le ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
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 ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
On the way from Genoa to Messina Irving's vessel was boarded by a piratical picaroon. ❋ Henry Walcott Boynton (1908)
The sub-tropic beach comber and the picaroon acquire nasty tricks with knives, and have an uncanny skill at their use. ❋ Albert Payson Terhune (1907)
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. ❋ Unknown (1906)
