roysterer

Example Sentences

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I had been a false friend, a vain, self-righteous puppy, a weak, discreditable roysterer, without the courage to utter one protest on the side of chivalry and right.

From My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life by Reed, Talbot Baines

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 Brebner, Percy James

Mylio—"He is also somewhat of a fibber, a roysterer, not over bold, considerable of a libertine and a braggart—that is his portrait from the side of his morals!"

From The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades by Sue, Eugène

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

It is the hour of the jolly roysterer, male and female.

From Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life by Murray, Charles Theodore