The roisterer entertained the guests with ribald stories while consuming prodigious quantities of food. From LearnThat.org.
He was undoubtedly a roisterer, but he was very much a man. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
He comes at books as a reveler, a roisterer — and a celebrator of his own capacious and vigorous mind. From Wordnik.com. [Sacred Texts] Reference
Seneca Bowers gulped glass after glass of champagne, toasting Confusion to Fusion like the veriest roisterer. From Wordnik.com. [The Henchman] Reference
Why should this drunken roisterer have selected her mother, of all other women in the dining-room, for the object of these outrageous remarks?. From Wordnik.com. [The Titan] Reference
Am I a drunkard, a wine-bibber, a roisterer by night?. From Wordnik.com. [The Grey Cloak] Reference
A wastrel, a roisterer by night, a spendthrift, and a thief!. From Wordnik.com. [The Pagan Madonna] Reference
The cautious Ben Jonson, when his erstwhile taproom roisterer, Will. From Wordnik.com. [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference
"Yet I cannot very well," replied the ex-monk, "wear a blue coat, like a roisterer at a dance!". From Wordnik.com. [Dieux ont soif. English] Reference
She had with her eyes open promised to marry this Englishman -- fop! dullard! roisterer! insolent cub!. From Wordnik.com. [In the Valley] Reference
The roisterer, Matthew, was by this time forty-six years of age, and, I suppose, had grown tired of roistering. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of Prey] Reference
Something in Rachel's face and in her manner of speaking seemed to make an impression upon the young roisterer. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Tufton's Travels] Reference
But as if the bad blood of the entire family had come to a head in one man, Richard was born a roisterer and a spendthrift. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman Named Smith] Reference
"You cannot deny, Hawke, that you dined at the marble house with the beauty whom we are all toasting," said a rallying roisterer. From Wordnik.com. [A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story] Reference
Pardon me -- to live with that roisterer coming in upon me when and whence he pleased -- I prefer my broken life and my loneliness -- with you!. From Wordnik.com. [Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales] Reference
It seemed impossible that he could be the same raw rustic youth who, a few short months ago, was accounted the greatest roisterer of his own county. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Tufton's Travels] Reference
Now it did indeed look like a city of the dead, for not even an idle roisterer, or a drunkard stumbling homewards with uncertain gait, was to be seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Sign of the Red Cross] Reference
The praying brother of yesterday is the night-hack roisterer of to-day; the roisterer of to-day is the snuffling penitent and pledge-taker of to-morrow. From Wordnik.com. [Prejudices : first series,] Reference
The coming event seemed to cast its shadow before; and throughout the night the roisterer or belated traveller made a détour to visit the human shambles. From Wordnik.com. [Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis] Reference
One great roisterer from the sheep country who had just instigated a movement toward the bar, swept Curly in like a stray goat with the rest of his flock. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the West [Annotated]] Reference
As I remembered it -- as he sang it -- it recounted the adventures of one Don Francisco, a provincial gallant and roisterer of the most objectionable type. From Wordnik.com. [Selected Stories of Bret Harte] Reference
A maudlin sob caught one roisterer by the throat, and the tableau was broken by the falling of his glass to the table, where it lay shattered in foaming wine. From Wordnik.com. [The Grey Cloak] Reference
Major, but he vowed him to be a roisterer and spendthrift, and one day, some months after my advent, the Judge asked me flatly how I came to fall in with Major Colfax. From Wordnik.com. [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference
The panel already has been struck by time itself, which declares that, even in the case of some uneven roisterer, one or two fortunate catches shall preserve his name. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction] Reference
By the one it is held to be synonymous with in the manner of a blood, i. e., of a rich young roisterer; this would make bloody drunk equivalent to as drunk as a lord. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4. American and English Today. 5. Expletives and Forbidden Words] Reference
Suddenly, some roisterer, passing along the street with his companions, laughed a loud, reckless, half drunken, laugh that sounded in the quiet darkness with startling clearness. From Wordnik.com. [Their Yesterdays] Reference
789: A roisterer at some banquet, flown with wine. From Wordnik.com. [Oedipus the King] Reference
The Chevalier has a friend here, "laughed the vicomte, assisting the roisterer to his feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Grey Cloak] Reference
"So your new guest is a roisterer?". From Wordnik.com. [The Companions of Jehu] Reference
A roisterer at some banquet, flown with wine. From Wordnik.com. [Oedipus Trilogy] Reference
I waited until the last noisy roisterer had gone. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance] Reference
A tavern roisterer so early? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Towers of the Sunset]
"I have been a roisterer by night. From Wordnik.com. [The Grey Cloak] Reference
I'm the only roisterer you know. ". From Wordnik.com. [His Family] Reference
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