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 Earle, Alice Morse

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

Save for a belated roysterer singing on his way homeward, and one or two nightbirds on the street below whose footfalls sounded fitfully, no whisper broke on the eerie night.

From Border Ghost Stories by Pease, Howard

Our boy is not a gambler or roysterer, nor do I think he has ever been in Europe.

From Aunt Jane's Nieces out West by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)

Mylio—"He is also somewhat of a fibber, a roysterer, not over bold, considerable of a libertine and a braggart—that is his portrait from the side of his morals!"

From The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades by Sue, Eugène