roysterer

Example Sentences

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He found just such a man as he had pictured—a lightly-loving, pleasure-taking roysterer, with never a thought beyond the amusement which the hour afforded him.

From Saint Martin's Summer by Sabatini, Rafael

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

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

Fortnoye is a roysterer, latterly occupied in extending the connection of a champagne-house at Épernay.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 by Various

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