roysterer

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Mr. Kettridge, his eyes big with unconcealed wonder as he looked at the odd coin, was eager to accost Harry King at once and demand to know whence the roysterer had obtained it.

From The Diamond Cross Mystery Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story by Steele, Chester K.

Fortnoye is a roysterer, a squanderer, a wanderer and a pètroleur.

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

He is a reckless roysterer of the old school, and a friend of sir Andrew Ague-cheek.—Shakespeare,

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

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

"Yet it is true that he is far from perfect,—a subtle rascal, who dons disguises, and masquerades as other than he is, a leader of night-birds, and sometimes a turbulent roysterer."

From An Enemy to the King by Stephens, Robert Neilson