roysterer
Example Sentences
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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 Alice Morse Earle
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 Robert Louis Stevenson
Some have imagined that he was a free liver and roysterer, after the fashion of his time, that he lived as Robert Greene and Christopher Marlowe and other dissipated writers.
From William Shakespeare His Homes and Haunts by A. (Amédée) Forestier
"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 Robert Neilson Stephens
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 Chester K. Steele
