roysterer

Example Sentences

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As soon as this roysterer was fairly out of the way the adventurers looked about them to get their bearings.

From Two Gallant Sons of Devon A Tale of the Days of Queen Bess by Hodgson, Edward S.

The leading roysterer stumbled, fell in a wry heap, and lay still.

From Whirligigs by Henry, O.

Save for a belated roysterer singing on his way homeward, and one or two nightbirds on the street below whose footfalls sounded fitfully, no whisper broke on the eerie night.

From Border Ghost Stories by Pease, Howard

Sir John Lanison of Aylingford seemed to have nothing in common with that young roysterer of long ago, and to-day there was no more popular man in this corner of Hampshire.

From The Brown Mask by Brebner, Percy James

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