roysterer

Example Sentences

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As soon as this roysterer was fairly out of the way the adventurers looked about them to get their bearings.

From Two Gallant Sons of Devon A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess by Hodgson, Edward S.

He was just about to mount his horse; but there was now nothing of the roysterer about his look or manner.

From An Enemy to the King by Stephens, Robert Neilson

Save for a belated roysterer singing on his way homeward, and one or two nightbirds on the street below whose footfalls sounded fitfully, no whisper broke on the eerie night.

From Border Ghost Stories by Pease, Howard

Bed," cried the roysterer; "no bed for me this night!

From Salute to Adventurers by Buchan, John

Thomas Morton of Mare-Mount, that amusing old debauchee and roysterer, was sentenced to be “clapt into the bilbowes.”

From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Earle, Alice Morse