roisterer

• “He, who was sheer bladed steel in the imperious flashing of his will, could swashbuckle and bully like any over-seas roisterer, or wheedle as wickedly winningly as the first woman out of Eden or the last woman of that descent.”

  CHAPTER XI

• “References: 48 = reference to the last story; Madriliène = inhabitant of Madrid; les pieds (mpl) = feet; Madrileño = (Spanish for "native of Madrid"); un fêtard (une fêtarde) = merrymaker, roisterer (party animal); long pillow/bolster = un traversin”

  French Word-A-Day:

• “He comes at books as a reveler, a roisterer — and a celebrator of his own capacious and vigorous mind.”

  Newsweek: Sacred Texts

• “References: 48 = reference to the last story; Madriliène = inhabitant of Madrid; les pieds (mpl) = feet; Madrileño = (Spanish for "native of Madrid"); un fêtard (une fêtarde) = merrymaker, roisterer (party animal); long pillow / bolster = un traversin”

  bruyant - French Word-A-Day

• “Why should this drunken roisterer have selected her mother, of all other women in the dining-room, for the object of these outrageous remarks?”

  The Titan

• “He was also known as a sportsman, hunter, duellist, a mighty lover and a roisterer with an unsurpassed knowledge of the dives on a dozen planets.”

  The Long Way Home

• “Seneca Bowers gulped glass after glass of champagne, toasting Confusion to Fusion like the veriest roisterer.”

  The Henchman

• “He was undoubtedly a roisterer, but he was very much a man.”

  Famous Affinities of History — Complete

• “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.”

  Chapter 4. American and English Today. 5. Expletives and Forbidden Words

• “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.”

  Prejudices : first series,

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