roysterer

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The leading roysterer stumbled, fell in a wry heap, and lay still.

From Whirligigs by Henry, O.

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

Something supernal has the sound As verse by verse the strain proceeds, And stilly staring on the ground    Each roysterer holds and heeds.

From Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses by Hardy, Thomas

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

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