roysterer

Example Sentences

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He did not possess even enough spirit to play the role of roysterer to the end.

From The Old Wives' Tale by Bennett, Arnold

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 Hodgson, Edward S.

He was just about to mount his horse; but there was now nothing of the roysterer about his look or manner.

From An Enemy to the King by Stephens, Robert Neilson

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 Sabatini, Rafael

Though never a roysterer, he took part in various extra-academic enterprises, was a member of the Burschenschaft, that democratic-patriotic organization so gravely suspected by the reactionary governments, and made many friends.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno