roysterer

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"Yet it is true that he is far from perfect,—a subtle rascal, who dons disguises, and masquerades as other than he is, a leader of night-birds, and sometimes a turbulent roysterer."

From An Enemy to the King by Stephens, Robert Neilson

It is the hour of the jolly roysterer, male and female.

From Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life by Murray, Charles Theodore

He did not possess even enough spirit to play the role of roysterer to the end.

From The Old Wives' Tale by Bennett, Arnold

Mylio—"He is also somewhat of a fibber, a roysterer, not over bold, considerable of a libertine and a braggart—that is his portrait from the side of his morals!"

From The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades by Sue, Eugène

Socrates succeeded in getting the roysterer to listen long enough to turn the laugh on him and show all concerned that the life of a rowdy was the life of a fool.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Hubbard, Elbert