roysterer

Example Sentences

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"Yet it is true that he is far from perfect,—a subtle rascal, who dons disguises, and masquerades as other than he is, a leader of night-birds, and sometimes a turbulent roysterer."

From An Enemy to the King by Stephens, Robert Neilson

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 Steele, Chester K.

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

For despite his sour visage and ungracious ways there was not a roysterer in the Royal army to whom he was not dear.

From The Tavern Knight by Sabatini, Rafael

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 Hamilton, Frederick Spencer, Lord