roysterer

Example Sentences

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

From Bones in London by Wallace, Edgar

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

He released Cleveland from prison in a very handsome manner, considering what hard things the witty roysterer had written about “O.P.” and his “copper nose.”

From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by Masson, David

He described the vices of his master and the sins of the servants in a slang which would sit more gracefully upon an idle roysterer than upon a pious Abb�.

From A Book of Scoundrels by Whibley, Charles

"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