roysterer

Example Sentences

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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

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 Forestier, A. (Amédée)

Thomas Morton of Mare-Mount, that amusing old debauchee and roysterer, was sentenced to be “clapt into the bilbowes.”

From Curious Punishments of Bygone Days by Earle, Alice Morse

Bed," cried the roysterer; "no bed for me this night!

From Salute to Adventurers by Buchan, John

She was kept very busy, and, though once or twice a tipsy roysterer ventured on some rough pleasantry, I noticed with returning satisfaction that most of the big, bearded miners treated her with chivalrous respect.

From The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)