roysterer
Example Sentences
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You are a roysterer, a jovial companion; you mean no harm—you are nobody’s enemy but your own.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV by Robert Louis Stevenson
He who would see the venerable features of Nature must not seek with the rudeness of a licensed roysterer violently to unmask her countenance; but must wait as a learner for her willing unveiling.
From Famous Reviews by R. Brimley Johnson
Sir John Lanison of Aylingford seemed to have nothing in common with that young roysterer of long ago, and to-day there was no more popular man in this corner of Hampshire.
From The Brown Mask by Percy James Brebner
Thomas Morton of Mare-Mount, that amusing old debauchee and roysterer, was sentenced to be “clapt into the bilbowes.”
From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Alice Morse Earle
Fortnoye is a roysterer, latterly occupied in extending the connection of a champagne-house at Épernay.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 by Various
