roysterer

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Fortnoye is a roysterer, a squanderer, a wanderer and a pètroleur.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 by Various

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

He who would see the venerable features of Nature must not seek with the rudeness of a licensed roysterer violently to unmask her countenance; but must wait as a learner for her willing unveiling.

From Famous Reviews by Johnson, R. Brimley

Something supernal has the sound As verse by verse the strain proceeds, And stilly staring on the ground    Each roysterer holds and heeds.

From Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses by Hardy, Thomas

"Anybody is liable to get that way, my jolly old roysterer," he said.

From Bones in London by Wallace, Edgar