"Picaroon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "We have heard a tale of a—foreign sail, but he is a merchantman." The skipper peered beneath his palm and swore by the Great Horn Spoon:— "'Fore Gad, the Chaplain of the Fleet would bless my picaroon!" By two and three the flags blew free to lash the laughing air:— "We have sold our spars to the merchantman—we know that his price is fair." The skipper winked his Western eye, and swore by a China storm:— ...
— Departmental Ditties and Barrack Room Ballads • Rudyard Kipling
... day the European traveler was not hedged in from adventure. On the way from Genoa to Messina Irving's vessel was boarded by a piratical picaroon. The consequences were not dreadful, but the mise en scene was all that could have been desired. The pirates had "fierce black eyes scowling under enormous bushy eyebrows.... They seemed to regard us with the most malignant looks, ...
— Washington Irving • Henry W. Boynton |
