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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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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Thus a problem has been set before doting Princess Victoria�where shall her Zubkov now roister, tweak, and make champagne-rain?

From Time Magazine Archive

Are you Revenue-men that you dare shout and roister? or contrabandiers with the lugger in the offing, and your life in your hand.

From Moonfleet by Falkner, John Meade