They didn't pray and then roister on Midwinter's Day. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge of the Separator]
Have a care, my roister, of the milk-pot, that is, the testicles. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
I talked him out of it that time, and he got to workin 'on the Fish Patrol, runnin' down the very guys he used to roister around with. From Wordnik.com. [Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon] Reference
AFTERWORD The scene in which Roland bests his old teacher, Cort, and goes off to roister in the less savory section of Gilead was written in the spring of 1970. From Wordnik.com. [Wizard and Glass]
Strange laughing thoughts that roister through my mind. From Wordnik.com. [Georgian Poetry 1920-22] Reference
'Well, there's a fine roister-doister!' the Lady Cicely laughed behind the Queen's back. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Queen Crowned] Reference
Montmartre, with its spurious extravaganzas of rouge and roister, with its spider webs of joy. From Wordnik.com. [Europe After 8:15] Reference
They went out, laughing and scuffling, and Nicolo, his fancy on fire, watched them roister down the street. From Wordnik.com. [Spice and the Devil's Cave] Reference
His very roistering became a pose, and his vanity made him roister the more, to make the pose more convincing. From Wordnik.com. [The House with the Green Shutters] Reference
The spectacle of wellnigh complete degeneracy offered by the roister-doistering slough brethren of the Vale of Tears gave Herr. From Wordnik.com. [Gänsemännchen. English] Reference
Iliese are to be found in the registries of the bishop or dean and chapter of the diocese, or in the chartularies and roister books of religious houses. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century;: Comprizing Biographical ...] Reference
The venturous roister inviteth him again to the duel, but the Gascon, without condescending to his desire, said only this: He paovret jou tesquinerie ares, que son pla reposat. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3] Reference
When I first went there in 1987, to see Lasse Hallström's My Life as a Dog, I marvelled at its place in the cradle of the otherwise desolate Brunswick Centre, which resembled the sort of labyrinthine estate through which Regan and Carter of The Sweeney might routinely pursue teenage roister-doisters and leather-faced lags. From Wordnik.com. [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference
"night watch" was famed rather for its ability to sleep or to roister than to protect life or purse. From Wordnik.com. [A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.] Reference
‘Works from nine in the morning till ten at night, and then goes out to roister with Theopoulos and Potiscu. From Wordnik.com. [Ruined City]
We’re in a fantasied-up 17th-century France; Cardinal Richelieu plots and schemes; gentlemen fight duels, quoff in taverns, roister and doister, and the Parisian streets are coated in merde. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-01-01] Reference
I swaddled him in a scurvy swathel-binding which I found lying there half burnt, and with my cords tied him roister-like both hand and foot, in such sort that he was not able to wince; then passed my spit through his throat, and hanged him thereon, fastening the end thereof at two great hooks or crampirons, upon which they did hang their halberds; and then, kindling a fair fire under him, did flame you up my Milourt, as they use to do dry herrings in a chimney. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2] Reference
Greville is a roister!. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Grandison] Reference
Then roister doister in his oily terms. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere and Montaigne] Reference
Rant = to rollick, to roister. From Wordnik.com. [BellaOnline - The Voice of Women] Reference
Rant, to rollick, to roister. From Wordnik.com. [Glossary] Reference
"All right," she conceded grudgingly, "I'll roister. From Wordnik.com. [His Family] Reference
Have a care, my roister, of the wine-pot, that is, the skull, but. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
Hector went out nightly to roister in streets turbulent with warriors, fishers, farmers, woodcutters, sailors, hunters, traders, artisans, tinkers, laborers come to fight for the Prince. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
Wherefore it is, that none should henceforth say, who would not speak improperly, when any country bumpkin hieth to the wars, Have a care, my roister, of the wine-pot, that is, the skull, but, Have a care, my roister, of the milk-pot, that is, the testicles. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3] Reference
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