roysterers

Parisian, that is to say, to rebound forever, like a shuttlecock between two battledores, from the group of the loungers to the group of the roysterers.

Les Miserables 2008

Cloud-puffball. torn tufts, tossed pillows 'flaunt forth, then chevy on an air - built thoroughfare: heaven-roysterers, in gay-gangs' they throng; they glitter in marches.

John Lundberg: Turning Poetry Into Music 2008

I even love these roysterers, and am sorry for that poor lover who will never wear left handed chevron again.

The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

I live in a venerable suburb of London, in an old house which in bygone days was a famous resort for merry roysterers and peerless ladies, long since departed.

Master Humphrey's Clock 2007

I live in a venerable suburb of London, in an old house which in bygone days was a famous resort for merry roysterers and peerless ladies, long since departed.

Master Humphrey's Clock 2007

Words from "The Tomb" that are either almost uniquely associated with Lovecraft, or ones I had to look up the first time I read this story: scions, enthralled, ribald, voluble, erudition, charnel, and roysterers.

What I Learned: The Tomb jimvanpelt 2007

There was but a trickle of roysterers in Park Lane, not very noisy.

In Chancery 2004

It tells, too, of the simple life spent in seclusion in contradistinction to the “envious court” of the roysterers in the glare of the leafless flame-tree.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

The saucy bullies, the half-tipsy roysterers, tired of domineering over every participator of the feast, dared to publicly flout me, defiantly sweeping with their tails the air, as an

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

The hawk would abide its time, and have occasion, after its kind, to be grateful because of the tree and its seductive nectar which translated artless little songsters into shrill-tongued roysterers, careless of the ills of life, or at least less watchful for the presence of crafty enemies.

Tropic Days 2003