roysterer

Example Sentences

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

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

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 Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

From Bones in London by Wallace, Edgar

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 Brebner, Percy James

I had been a false friend, a vain, self-righteous puppy, a weak, discreditable roysterer, without the courage to utter one protest on the side of chivalry and right.

From My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life by Reed, Talbot Baines