roysterer

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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

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

From Plays of William E. Henley and R.L. Stevenson by Henley, William Ernest

Winifred, who had stepped into the gutter to avoid the roysterer with the cane, turned as a stalwart, blue-coated figure moved towards her.

From Masters of the Wheat-Lands by Bindloss, Harold

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

From Bones in London by Wallace, Edgar

He did not possess even enough spirit to play the role of roysterer to the end.

From The Old Wives' Tale by Bennett, Arnold