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
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
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
Socrates succeeded in getting the roysterer to listen long enough to turn the laugh on him and show all concerned that the life of a rowdy was the life of a fool.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Elbert Hubbard
He who would see the venerable features of Nature must not seek with the rudeness of a licensed roysterer violently to unmask her countenance; but must wait as a learner for her willing unveiling.
From Famous Reviews by R. Brimley Johnson
