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Roysterer   Listen
noun
Roysterer, Royster  n.  Same as Roister, Roisterer.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Roysterer" Quotes from Famous Books



... of this world. You have been trained among sinners who gloried in their sin: in your whole life you never saved one farthing; and now, when your pockets are full, you think you can begin, poor dupe, in your own strength. You are a roysterer, a jovial companion; you mean no harm—you are nobody's enemy but your own. No doubt you tell this girl of mine, and no doubt you tell yourself, that you can change. Christopher, speaking under correction, I defy you! You ask me for ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV • Robert Louis Stevenson

... were occupied by part of the audience in drinking from the bottles which they carried strapped about their waists, and in singing snatches of songs. One broad-mouthed roysterer on the ground proposed the King's health, and supported the toast by a ballad in which "Great Charles, like Jehovah," was described as merciful and generous to the foes that would unking him and the vipers that would sting ...
— The Shadow of a Crime - A Cumbrian Romance • Hall Caine

... crowded. A hoarse crashing babble goes steadily on, forming the ground-bass of an odious symphony; shrill and discordant laughter rises by fits and starts above the low tumult; a coarse joke sets one group sniggering; a vile oath rings out from some foul-mouthed roysterer; and at intervals some flushed and bleared creature breaks into a slavering laugh which has a sickly resemblance to weeping. At one of the side-tables a sodden brute leans forward and wags his head to and ...
— The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions - Joints In Our Social Armour • James Runciman

... the whole thing is absurd. Our boy is not a gambler or roysterer, nor do I think he has ever been in Europe. Mr. Le Drieux will have ...
— Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West • Edith Van Dyne

... of heavy feet drew nearer, and the three roysterers disappeared in the direction of a flaming music-hall, where the second "house" was probably beginning. Winifred, who had stepped into the gutter to avoid the roysterer with the cane, turned as a stalwart, blue-coated figure moved ...
— Masters of the Wheat-Lands • Harold Bindloss



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