roister

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And I heard that for four livelong days those overwise roisters had been at it ding-dong, disputing on three high, more than metaphysical propositions, promising themselves mountains of gold by solving them.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by Motteux, Peter Anthony

If new topics are started, graver and higher, these roisters recede; a more chaste and wise attention takes place.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 by Various

And behind him stood peering, some with wide eyes of terror, and some with ready laughs at nothing, the few other roisters in the tavern at that hour.

From The Heart's Highway by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

And instead of going home nights he roisters around in bars and restaurants, talking to everybody, listening to everybody, liking them all and enthusiastically making friends in carload lots.

From The Man Who Staked the Stars by Dye, Charles