roysterer
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Richard hastened to make himself known to this turbulent roysterer, who straightway forgot his grievance to take Westmacott affectionately by the hand and overwhelm him with apologies.
From Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini
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 is a reckless roysterer of the old school, and a friend of sir Andrew Ague-cheek.—Shakespeare,
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
Some have imagined that he was a free liver and roysterer, after the fashion of his time, that he lived as Robert Greene and Christopher Marlowe and other dissipated writers.
From William Shakespeare His Homes and Haunts by A. (Amédée) Forestier
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
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