bolstering

Example Sentences

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Perennial undergraduate, projecting the roystering side of his bright college years into grown-up life, he has been the guiding spirit and principal actor in many an epic junket.

From Time Magazine Archive

There were no Aaron Bangs to be seen, or Paul Gelids, with the rough sense, the vigour, the energy, and roystering light-heartedness of our grandfathers.

From The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses by Froude, James Anthony

"No, I won't!" answered the lad, with emphatic brevity, as the image of the red-faced, roystering Major passed before his mind's eye.

From Silver Pitchers: and Independence A Centennial Love Story by Alcott, Louisa May

Here were the meek, the tranquil, the humble-minded, the solitary, the seasick, all suddenly converted into riotous and roystering feasters.

From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Lever, Charles James

The patio was littered with the furniture they had thrown out of the windows, and I could hear the men roystering over their wine.

From The Dust of Conflict by Bindloss, Harold