Robust, roisterous and even rude debate is forbidden. From Wordnik.com. [Phobias and Free Speech] Reference
His excitability and his roisterous enthusiasm made them laugh. From Wordnik.com. [Of Human Bondage] Reference
At Neville's Grange the Major kept a somewhat roisterous bachelor's hall. From Wordnik.com. [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference
He said it as he said everything: cheerily, in a roisterous Aussie accent. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
In mediæval England leather black jacks, cups, and flagons withstood the rough usage of those roisterous times. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Household Curios] Reference
My Charlotte was descended from a poor little player girl who had smiled on the roisterous populace of Bartholomew Fair. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of Prey] Reference
Between one and two o'clock in the morning, his roisterous companions were led off by their servants, and he was put into bed by. From Wordnik.com. [A romance of the republic] Reference
Here was the roisterous spirit of the Northland at full play; it irked the young man intensely to feel that he could afford no part in it. From Wordnik.com. [The Winds of Chance] Reference
He had entered upon the adventure in his famous barrel on Encisco's ship as a reckless, improvident, roisterous, careless, hare-brained scapegrace. From Wordnik.com. [South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure] Reference
Dawson's vivid and roisterous nocturnal life hastened thither; even the second-story windows framed heads, for this clamor put slumber to flight without delay. From Wordnik.com. [The Winds of Chance] Reference
Give the man a third Olivier for quick thinking on the Shakespearean spot, not to mention for one of the most complete performances - roisterous and ruminative, as needed - yet seen at this. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
So, in the gathering dimness, each knelt stock still, without even the comfort of the other's proximity to help her through the long, long, awful minutes while the roisterous company were passing by. From Wordnik.com. [What Necessity Knows] Reference
The few weeks 'martial glory which John Clare enjoyed had the one good effect of weaning him from the roisterous company at the Bachelors' Hall, and bringing him once more to his former peaceful studies. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of John Clare] Reference
Now, he knew what it was to attempt in the roisterous and thoughtless days of youth to revolutionize the whole current of society, according to the immature views of that period -- be knew that it was better to suffer partial evils, in an otherwise wholesome and benign government, for the general good, rather than that every mad youth should set himself up for lawgiver and judge. From Wordnik.com. [The Knights of the Horse-Shoe; A Traditionary Tale of the Cocked Hat Gentry in the Old Dominion.] Reference
Jack's roisterous personality. From Wordnik.com. [The Lookout Man] Reference
Each in an autumn’s roisterous trail. From Wordnik.com. [Joan Murray | Goblin Mercantile Exchange] Reference
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