roysterer

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Mr. Kettridge, his eyes big with unconcealed wonder as he looked at the odd coin, was eager to accost Harry King at once and demand to know whence the roysterer had obtained it.

From The Diamond Cross Mystery Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story by Steele, Chester K.

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

Socrates succeeded in getting the roysterer to listen long enough to turn the laugh on him and show all concerned that the life of a rowdy was the life of a fool.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Hubbard, Elbert

You despise him for a roysterer, for a man of loose ways.

From The Tavern Knight by Sabatini, Rafael

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