roysterer
Example Sentences
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He did not possess even enough spirit to play the role of roysterer to the end.
From The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett
It is the hour of the jolly roysterer, male and female.
From Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life by Charles Theodore Murray
Fortnoye is a roysterer, latterly occupied in extending the connection of a champagne-house at Épernay.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 by Various
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 Thomas Hardy
You are a roysterer, a jovial companion; you mean no harm—you are nobody’s enemy but your own.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV by Robert Louis Stevenson
