roysterer

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She was kept very busy, and, though once or twice a tipsy roysterer ventured on some rough pleasantry, I noticed with returning satisfaction that most of the big, bearded miners treated her with chivalrous respect.

From The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)

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

You are a roysterer, a jovial companion; you mean no harm—you are nobody’s enemy but your own.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV by Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

From Salute to Adventurers by Buchan, John

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