roysterer

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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

Socrates succeeded in getting the roysterer to listen long enough to turn the laugh on him and show all concerned that the life of a rowdy was the life of a fool.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Hubbard, Elbert

Winifred, who had stepped into the gutter to avoid the roysterer with the cane, turned as a stalwart, blue-coated figure moved towards her.

From Masters of the Wheat-Lands by Bindloss, Harold

She would have been so blessed had I been like them—I, who was a wrestler and a roysterer, a mere public toy that had broken down in the sight of all Orte.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. 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