roysterer

Example Sentences

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The larks roystered in mid-air, and the hawthorn waved to a gentle breeze.

From Black Forest Village Stories by Auerbach, Berthold

"And I don't believe," said the Warden, "that any one returns who has merely roystered within our walls," and he smiled.

From The New Warden by Ritchie, Mrs. David G.

So it was that Captain Johannes Maartens, Hendrik Hamel, and the twelve sea-cunies of us roystered and bawled in the fisher village while the winter gales whistled across the Yellow Sea.

From The Jacket (Star-Rover) by London, Jack

He picked his way deftly through all that minute vermin-like life and under the shadow of the gaunt spectral mansions in which the old nobility of Dublin had roystered.

From Dubliners by Joyce, James

I grant that if you sat here, or roystered on in Dublin, you might be accused of shuffling, which would not do.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis