roysterer

Example Sentences

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

From Whirligigs by Henry, O.

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

"Anybody is liable to get that way, my jolly old roysterer," he said.

From Bones in London by Wallace, Edgar

You despise him for a roysterer, for a man of loose ways.

From The Tavern Knight by Sabatini, Rafael

For despite his sour visage and ungracious ways there was not a roysterer in the Royal army to whom he was not dear.

From The Tavern Knight by Sabatini, Rafael