roister

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Few of the thousands of bedaubed revelers who annually roister through Manhattan's Beaux-Arts Ball realize that their patronage indirectly helps to raise money to send one architectural student to Paris for two-and-a-half years.

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In the old days, Batista liked to roister long past midnight with ex-sergeant cronies.

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Undaunted by the fact that the Bastille has just fallen, a band of gallants and their lady friends come to roister in the tavern of one Prosp�re.

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Within, Fly members sat down to roister together.

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Then, may it please you, the effect is this: There is a certain roister, named Prodigality, That long about this town hath ruffled in great jollity!

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by Hazlitt, William Carew