roysterer
Example Sentences
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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
Mr. Kettridge, his eyes big with unconcealed wonder as he looked at the odd coin, was eager to accost Harry King at once and demand to know whence the roysterer had obtained it.
From The Diamond Cross Mystery Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story by Chester K. Steele
You are a roysterer, a jovial companion; you mean no harm—you are nobody’s enemy but your own.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV by Robert Louis Stevenson
Every inhabitant of Nyons was secretly proud of being able to claim so dare-devil a roysterer as a fellow-townsman.
From The Days Before Yesterday by Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton
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
