roysterer

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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

She would have been so blessed had I been like them—I, who was a wrestler and a roysterer, a mere public toy that had broken down in the sight of all Orte.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various

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)

Our boy is not a gambler or roysterer, nor do I think he has ever been in Europe.

From Aunt Jane's Nieces out West by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)

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