roysterer
Example Sentences
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As soon as this roysterer was fairly out of the way the adventurers looked about them to get their bearings.
From Two Gallant Sons of Devon A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess by Edward S. Hodgson
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
"Anybody is liable to get that way, my jolly old roysterer," he said.
From Bones in London by Edgar Wallace
Bed," cried the roysterer; "no bed for me this night!
From Salute to Adventurers by John Buchan
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