roysterer
Example Sentences
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Sir John Lanison of Aylingford seemed to have nothing in common with that young roysterer of long ago, and to-day there was no more popular man in this corner of Hampshire.
From The Brown Mask by Percy James Brebner
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 William Ernest Henley
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 Eugène Sue
He found just such a man as he had pictured—a lightly-loving, pleasure-taking roysterer, with never a thought beyond the amusement which the hour afforded him.
From Saint Martin's Summer by Rafael Sabatini
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
