roysterer

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She was kept very busy, and, though once or twice a tipsy roysterer ventured on some rough pleasantry, I noticed with returning satisfaction that most of the big, bearded miners treated her with chivalrous respect.

From The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)

Winifred, who had stepped into the gutter to avoid the roysterer with the cane, turned as a stalwart, blue-coated figure moved towards her.

From Masters of the Wheat-Lands by Bindloss, Harold

"Anybody is liable to get that way, my jolly old roysterer," he said.

From Bones in London by Wallace, Edgar

Though never a roysterer, he took part in various extra-academic enterprises, was a member of the Burschenschaft, that democratic-patriotic organization so gravely suspected by the reactionary governments, and made many friends.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno

He is a reckless roysterer of the old school, and a friend of sir Andrew Ague-cheek.—Shakespeare,

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham