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Roisterer   Listen
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Roisterer  n.  A blustering, turbulent fellow. "If two roisterers met, they cocked their hats in each other faces."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Roisterer" Quotes from Famous Books



... as she walked; and Berenice, surveying the room with dignity, a lofty superiority in her face, led solemnly forth, a strange, lacerating pain about her heart. What was at the bottom of these shameful statements? Why should this drunken roisterer have selected her mother, of all other women in the dining-room, for the object of these outrageous remarks? Why should her mother be stricken, so utterly collapsed, if there were not some truth in what he had said? It was very strange, very sad, very grim, very horrible. ...
— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser

... to go among those people, holding new-fangled doctrines, for the sake of the novelty and excitement; that is but natural, so I scarcely blame you; but beware, my son, this Dr Martin himself is, I hear, a wild, unstable character, a roisterer and wine-bibber, who desires to overthrow our holy Father, the Pope, for the sake of ruling, by his wicked incantations and devices, ...
— Count Ulrich of Lindburg - A Tale of the Reformation in Germany • W.H.G. Kingston

... already to stare him in the face, when the only friend who, having shared his prosperity, remained true to his adverse fate,—a friend, fortunately for him, of high connections and brilliant prospects—succeeded in obtaining for him the humble living of A——. To this primitive spot the once jovial roisterer cheerfully retired—contrived to live contented upon an income somewhat less than he had formerly given to his groom—preached very short sermons to a very scanty and ignorant congregation, some of whom only ...
— Night and Morning, Volume 1 • Edward Bulwer Lytton

... anything but what he was—never of what he might have been. For having thrust him unfinished upon a thoughtless rather than a heartless world he had been trying to punish fate, and had punished only himself. A wastrel, a roisterer by night, a ...
— The Pagan Madonna • Harold MacGrath

... who goes swaggering in the road (or gate); a roisterer who takes the wall of every one. Swing is an old word ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 69, February 22, 1851 • Various



Words linked to "Roisterer" :   reveler, merrymaker



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