| 单词 | roister |
| 例句 | At last only two of that roistering, impudent band were left, the priest of the suitors and their bard. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They bounced down the stairs with a great roistering clatter, laughing out loud breathlessly and knocking their hilarious heads together each time they paused to rest. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Ben Jonson's vaunting 1616 collection of his works directs the reader's attention towards classical allusion rather than roistering theatricality; Shaw's dialogue famously has to wriggle past screeds of argumentative stage direction. Are plays proper literature? 2010-05-27T14:13:00Z And, yes, Mr. Plummer does oblige with the occasional personal anecdote about his roistering among boldface names. Critic’s Notebook: Christopher Plummer and John Hirsch Solo Shows at Stratford 2012-08-21T21:46:20Z The roistering comedy of the lower orders is pungently delivered. Critic’s Notebook: Stratford Shakespeare Festival, ‘Henry V’ and ‘Cymbeline’ 2012-08-19T21:11:38Z Both movies lavish attention on waterfront dives, roistering sailors and back-alley hôtels de passe. Louis Valray Made Only 2 Movies. But Both Are Incredible. 2021-03-10T05:00:00Z Proclaiming that every scurvy brigand is at heart just a Broadway gypsy between shows, it's the score's main example of roistering wit. 'Tangled' Movie Review: Disney Excels with Rapunzel Remake 2010-12-01T16:55:00Z Hal prefers to roister and rut — we first meet him in bed with three others — in the company of Falstaff and his fellow debauchees in a tavern in Eastcheap. ‘Henry IV’ Plays, With Antony Sher as Falstaff, in London 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z But a Londoner knows what happens in the Square after dark, when it becomes jampacked with roistering out-of-town youths who wheel and butt around the place, for all the world like spiflicated musk oxen. T Magazine: Room With a Purview 2011-11-25T17:30:45Z Andrew Vincent's Herries roisters like a periwigged Oliver Reed, while hinting at the emotional void that only the love of an inaccessible Gypsy girl 30 years his junior can fill. Rogue Herries – review 2013-03-27T18:19:40Z Mr. Frayn, who began his career as a journalist, portrays the roistering atmosphere in the room with obvious affection, although “Alphabetical Order” reveals a playwright still coloring inside the lines. | 'Alphabetical Order': The Withering Heights and Depths of a Dying British Paper 2010-09-29T02:02:00Z Throughout this roistering four minutes of teenage kicking, the video keeps showing her weeping on an A-road flyover. Foxygen, Bastille, Misty Miller: this week's new tracks 2013-06-01T05:00:00Z Not all of it works: St James Infirmary Blues is too bedazzled by its own roistering, and he's too much the contented entertainer for the furious gospel of Lord Help. Tom Jones – review 2012-07-02T15:23:24Z Young Wilkie traveled to continental Europe as a child and returned as a roistering young adult. The writer who liberated the mystery story from drafty castles 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z The handsome, blond Mr. Benz looks as if he should be palling around with the roistering Prince Harry — the current one, I mean — getting into some harmless mischief. Theater Review: Michael Benz in ‘Hamlet’ at the Schimmel Center 2012-10-03T21:57:28Z The chorus is simply terrific, whether the task involves grappling with the high seas, roistering in celebration afterward, or engaging in some cleverly stylized spinning. Seattle Opera’s ‘Flying Dutchman’ unleashes gloriously perfect storm 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, Queen Victoria’s son, the future Edward VII, devoted his energies to gambling, overeating, pursuing women and roistering with unsavory companions. Review | What can ‘The Age of Decadence’ teach us about today? A great deal. 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z After that roistering swagger, the poem unexpectedly closes with the conjunction of the wistful and worldly: Review | Auden was more than a great poet. Two books remind us why. 2022-06-29T04:00:00Z David Wolkowsky, 99, a visionary developer and preservationist who helped transform Key West, Florida, from a roistering former Navy town into a bohemian haven and a tourist destination, died there last Sunday. This week’s passages 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z It all looks so well mannered, this orderly line of identically sized black-and-white illustrations, and then you peer into the pictures and the familiar rude energy comes roistering out. Robert Crumb: ‘I was born weird' 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z Tories and their commentators roistered with delight at the non-shambles of Osborne's spending review. Labour's spending worked. Why don't they defend it? 2013-07-02T06:00:34Z The scollop and oyster Their two shells did roister, Like castanets fitting; While limpets moved clearly, And rocks very nearly With laughter were splitting. Fairy Legends and Traditions of The South of Ireland 2012-05-22T15:16:54.237Z Bailey, unless, indeed, by dividing the word into two portions, viz. "bar" and "rister," and then, with a little of the critic's license, assuming that the latter half might originally have been written "roister." Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 111, December 13, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2012-04-08T02:00:23.437Z Even the Troutbeck apothecary, a roistering blade who was making a day of it, kept a wary eye on the door, and, if he could, slipped round the corner when she appeared. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z In between times I expect to roister, shamelessly, in some of the livelier resorts of the Continent. The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z “Just look at that fat old roistering chair conversing with the thin straight-laced prig of a side-chair, next to him.” Polly and Her Friends Abroad 2011-09-18T02:00:29.443Z Under the tree and at the tavern met all patriot bands, until the tree was cut down by the roistering British soldiers and supplied them with fourteen cords of firewood. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z A week or two back, at Christmas time, there had been a roomful of men sitting drinking and roistering at this very table. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z He charged the little girl instead of the roistering dog. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z It seemed there was not a soul abroad, and this surprised Johnnie, who had been led to understand that at midnight "The Lane" was frequently the scene of roistering activity. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z That is why that roistering armchair displeases a true and idealistic artist. Polly and Her Friends Abroad 2011-09-18T02:00:29.443Z The representation is, on the whole, so conducted as to leave the reader’s sympathies at least half enlisted in favor of the fellow, rough and roistering as he is. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Neither rolling wagons and carriages on the cobblestone street, nor roistering revellers downstairs beneath their lodgings disturbed her, she said. The Pocahontas-John Smith Story 2011-04-15T02:00:20.537Z At length one of the men, laughing a great roistering laugh, stooped and seized the dog by the nape of the neck and swung him round in the air. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z You may imagine how crossed the handsome and roistering cavalier felt at the prospect. The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z Guerilla himself was giving an admirable imitation of a roistering blade. The Rider of Golden Bar 2011-01-04T03:01:06.347Z Full of stories, full of songs, full of wit, full of roistering spirit—yet do not trespass too much upon his good nature with insult! Gamblers and Gambling 2010-12-26T03:00:19.913Z “We have saved you from some roistering knaves, and shall give you a pleasant refuge until the trouble be quelled.” The Great Mogul Much of the old roistering remained in the daily life of the country noblemen; they were still prone, as once in the middle ages, to excite quarrels in the inns and under the village lindens. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. I. "I lodged a good half-dozen of those beer-drinking loafers, though they roistered and drove away my respectable trade—and then the cops had the nerve to raid me," she inwardly lamented. The Tempering He recalled the fellowship of fresh-cheeked roistering youths like himself, full of the zest of life, youth well-clad, with the stamp of having known the good things of life; young women well-clad, well-appointed, also. The Broken Gate A Novel As will be found upon examination, that roistering ditty sorts with a joyful jog trot. Stepsons of Light This was the noisy, blustering, bragging company of gaily-bedizened fellows that had turned the streets of Montreal into a roistering booth when the Astorians came to the end of their long eastward journey. The Story of the Trapper He has not only grasped the loveliness of external things but he has delved rather deeply into the individualities of these roistering Hollanders. Artists Past and Present Random Studies Are not the taverns in remotest London filled with roistering spirits who drink and sing to their hearts’ content of their deeds in the wars just done? Mistress Nell A Merry Tale of a Merry Time And instead of going home nights he roisters around in bars and restaurants, talking to everybody, listening to everybody, liking them all and enthusiastically making friends in carload lots. The Man Who Staked the Stars For a second, everything went silent; nobles quarreling, guards roistering among the captures—suddenly the battlefield was still. The Barbarians The revered and gentle old mate of the brig Cohasset would have cause for grief when his two prodigals came roistering home. Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story She had married the 76 roistering blade for his bank account only. Carmen Ariza A roistering, free-booting space-ship sailor, this man may once have been, but, from the drug, the mighty arms had been twisted and shrivelled, the strong legs wasted away. The Passing of Ku Sui Through the night came sounds of roistering, songs, shouts. The Magnificent Adventure Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman My meal presently was brought from where most of the bandits now were roistering at the long table in the center of the cave. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 But there were sounds of roistering from down the ship's corridor. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 There was not much business in the saloon, there being few visitors in town, no roistering, no sounds of uncurbed gaiety. The Duke Of Chimney Butte An answer diametrically opposed to the tendencies of 63 the sack-guzzling, roistering, madcap playwrights of that early period! The Strollers The strong made their own laws from day to day, and wrote them in one general codex of adventure and full-blooded, roistering life. The Magnificent Adventure Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman But for her these nights would be spent in drinking, roistering, fighting and carousing. A Waif of the Mountains There was a crowd of roistering boys and rosy-cheeked girls, who made the old school-house hum like a beehive. Our Young Folks, Vol 1, No. 1 An Illustrated Magazine For that matter, his companions in roistering sometimes paid, and he had an occasional run of luck at cards. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore He hardly knew how he had come out of prison so drained of courage when he had been so roistering with it before he went in. The Prisoner He saw there a citizenry no longer riotous and roistering, not yet frenzied or hysterical, but strong, sober, and constant. The Magnificent Adventure Being the Story of the World's Greatest Exploration and the Romance of a Very Gallant Gentleman Me, Morgan la fée, espouse one of these roistering, cursing foreigners? Louisiana Lou A Western Story He had watched Menard grow from a roistering lieutenant into a rigid captain, and he knew his temper too well 14 to mind the flicks of banter. The Road to Frontenac All that roistering and carousing was a sin. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore The scollop and oyster Their two shells did roister, Like castanets flitting; While limpets moved clearly, And rocks very nearly With laughter were splitting. The Lilac Fairy Book Not long after he began to work at Black Callerton as brakesman, he had a quarrel with a pitman named Ned Nelson, a roistering bully, who was the terror of the village. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Steersman, leave the watch!" sing the roistering Norway lads; "Furl the sails! The Wagnerian Romances I am accused of being a noisy, roistering fellow, of robbing people of their wealth and of doing all sorts of wicked deeds. Conservation Reader She kept his clothes mended, and,—something she had never been troubled with in the case of that roistering loafer—she also was taking care of his savings. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore Where, too, were the roistering, cheery boys of the Royal Irish Rifles—some 294 of them—none of whom, when his name was spoken, was there to give back the word? South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 His very roistering became a pose, and his vanity made him roister the more, to make the pose more convincing. The House with the Green Shutters I would rather be the most roistering drunkard that ever reeled down these streets than call myself a Christian and carouse over the dead characters of my fellows. The Uncalled A Novel The good-sized, semi-detached houses built in a row opposite the promenade stood all so black and lifeless that Mr. Graham's click of the iron gate sounded quite roistering on the still night. The Privet Hedge The orchestra began playing the Madelon and everyone roared out the marching song that, worn threadbare as it was, still had a roistering verve to it that caught people's blood. One Man's Initiation—1917 These songs have an exuberance of the roistering spirit, along354 with a competence of musicianship that lifts them above any comparison with the average balladry. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Were they doing good work over here, or were they tied up to a dock in some port and their officers and crews roistering ashore? The U-boat hunters But Boccaccio was a poet with a roistering proclivity, and truth to such a one in a love-affair is out of the question. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers Away he went, and, in about ten minutes time, a roaring, roistering party was heard coming to the door. Sinks of London Laid Open A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, to Which is Added a Modern Flash Dictionary Containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases Now in Vogue, with a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves “You’ve got the wise prudence of a careful officer in you, though I don’t think the roistering crew Medley saw will attempt to make their way to-night thus far from their camp.” The Two Whalers Adventures in the Pacific A slab, called the altar, but known as the mourners' bench, had caught the tears of many an innocent maiden and roistering youth. Old Ebenezer I can say from several weeks' observation later that they were not doing too much roistering ashore. The U-boat hunters The representation is, on the whole, so conducted as to leave the reader's sympathies at least half enlisted in favor of the fellow, rough and roistering as he is. Classic French Course in English B. Beller, bellow.Bellowses, lunge.Ben, been.Bile, boil.Bimeby, by and by.Blurt out, to speak bluntly.Bust, burst.Buster, a roistering blade;used also as a general superlative. The Biglow Papers There was nothing of that sort known in American cities; there was little noise or roistering, no highway robbery, comparatively little petty stealing. Home Life in Colonial Days It was plain that the party viewed its expedition as an opportunity for reckless roistering, and spirits had added a spur to the natural boisterous belligerency of the woodsmen. The Rainy Day Railroad War They were packed with a roistering mob that drifted from one joint to another, dancing, gambling, carousing, fighting. The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Mrs. Gwynne's tone suppressed all further remark—even all recollection of the contemptible image that was intruding on her guest's mind—an image of a young, roistering, fox-hunting fool. Olive A Novel He is a cripple, and knowing that he cannot run away, the godless and roistering Malignant who calls himself our master hath given him a hut among the marshes, where he mendeth nets. Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia They found him enjoying himself with a lively company of careless bachelors—all distant cousins of Bobby Bobolink—who had travelled with him in a roistering flock all the way from the South. The Tale of Bobby Bobolink Tuck-me-In Tales Only Bud's steady, frowning countenance of all that rollicking, roistering crowd kept loyalty with the really beloved teacher. A Voice in the Wilderness But the man who had kissed her and who had been her childhood's friend staggered homeward after a roistering evening, never losing sight of the blow she had struck him. A Little Girl in Old Detroit A few colored men, three or four roistering visitors, and two policemen had seen them. The White Invaders He'd fill the place every Sunday, from May till November, with roistering roughs from the slums of Chicago. The Plum Tree Singing, or rather shouting, they would break windows, wrench off knockers, call up doctors, and transpose sign-boards; nor was there a night watchman to interfere with their roistering. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis When she re-entered the room where Chūdayu was drinking and roistering there was not a sign of any emotion. Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 Life was a drama, hastening, shouting, exhilarating, turbulent, free, roistering, but as triumphant as Elizabeth's fleet and God's stormy waters were over Philip's great Armada. A Hero and Some Other Folks Sometimes, even, the writers stray away entirely from a religious base and produce mere roistering catches or topical songs. The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals Faust of a sudden left his gloomy, cobwebby laboratory, flung a fine cloak over his shoulders, stuck a dandy feather in his cap, buckled on a rapier, and began roistering with the best of us. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View Suppressed were circumstances connecting him with graver charges than those of repeated roistering and aggravated assault. A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier Then, with clenched teeth and a firm step he went into the rear room, among that crowd of roistering students. Andy at Yale Or, The Great Quadrangle Mystery A little regular manual labor, rightly mixed with the mental, eliminates draw-poker, highballs, brawls, broils, Harvard Beer, Yale Mixture, Princeton Pinochle, Chippee dances, hazing, roistering, rowdyism and the bulldog propensity. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers Come now, my Boy, there's too much strength and character in those fine eyes and that splendid square chin and jaw for you to let roistering fools lead you by the nose. The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis But he could utter pathos almost intolerably piercing, and overwhelming remorse; gaiety as fresh and inspiriting as the song of a lark; roistering mirth; keen irony; and a thousand phases of passion. Robert Burns How To Know Him As a roistering young squire, wanting to see London life, you could go into taverns frequented by doubtful characters, for it is probably in such a place that you will find him. A Jacobite Exile Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden Alva, I say, you roistering hound, you drunken blade, bring hither a stool for the worthy confessor! Prisoners of Chance The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, through His Love for a Lady of France So there quickly grew up a roistering, turbulent, idle and dangerous class of black men who were used by the most ambitious of their kind for political ends. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 10 Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers Hey, game lads," he cried, in that roistering shriek which then passed for dashing hardihood among the youth of Paris, "here be some holy men, pilgrims to the shrine of Saint Denis, I warrant. The Black Douglas But a different air was abroad in the camp of the regulars; you would see a soldierly alertness on the part of the men, and there was no roistering in that quarter. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady He had just reached the Circus when the malignant wind, hiding in ambush down Regent Street, rushed at him unawares and sent his hat roistering into the doorway of a store. The Parts Men Play Comparative quiet had settled over the town, broken now and then by a noise from the camp, or the shouts of some roistering soldiers far down the road. Beatrix of Clare "Up all night roistering like a sophomore—" "I was in bed at three." The Clarion The gathering of congenial spirits, who knew they would be undisturbed by a roistering element, grew less frequent in the grill and Tudor rooms. The Diamond Cross Mystery Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story His roistering friends greeted his appearance with delight. The Grey Cloak The unfortunate antiquary and augur who is the butt of all this sport may suffer in the roistering horse-play and practical jokes of the servants' hall. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) Although there was always abundance of good things and a liberal hospitality to strangers of all sorts, it was not often that any unseemly roistering disturbed the inmates of Chad. The Secret Chamber at Chad He would stare at the rock walls of the cave and remember little things he had forgotten in his roistering quest of fun. The Lookout Man They were the roistering type, hard drinkers, devil-may-care fellows, packing guns and wearing bold fronts—a kind that the Rangers always called four-flushes. The Rustlers of Pecos County There was the same roistering and sprawling crowd; the same loudness and profanity; the same abundance of whisky and its intemperate indulgence; the same barbaric hilarity of negroes, driven and cursed. Children of the Market Place On the contrary, he probably remained much the same drunken, roistering heathen as before. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 04 A few days after another clergyman chanced to be in the office, no other than Mr. Beecher himself, and another captain came in, a roistering, swearing, good-hearted fellow. Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made First time I seen him he was being a roistering blade in the Fashion Waffle Kitchen down at Red Gap. Ma Pettengill The roistering, roaring, terrible 'Reds,' as I saw them, were weary, dull men, doing ill-directed work with plodding indifference. France in the Nineteenth Century The frontier was in its roistering youth, full of such effervescing spirits that life was the cheapest thing it knew. A Man Four-Square A few weeks of gaming and of roistering, of self-asserted claims! The Mississippi Bubble For his own part he thought no great harm of the roistering, gaming, and gallantries of the Court dandies. The Sign of the Red Cross At Jefferson College, Penn., a soubriquet for a roistering, noisy fellow; a rowdy. A Collection of College Words and Customs A few days after, another clergyman chanced to be in the office, no other than Mr. Beecher himself, and another captain came in, a roistering, swearing, good-hearted fellow. Famous Americans of Recent Times Nay, they spend the night roistering over a bottle or two of wine, and dear, vain Colley, like many who come after him, falls into the belief that he is a bold, fast man. The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield He was a roistering blade, who captained all the harumscarums of the section. Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 5 With Katy's help and that of sundry loggers, he fed the roistering crew, but for his sister it was a two-day period of protesting disgust. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest But soon the tide returns, and once more I hear the roistering of the waves. Ballads of a Bohemian This roistering village butcher and his worthy, much-enduring wife were the parents of our millionaire. Famous Americans of Recent Times Daylight's friendships, in lieu of anything closer, were drinking friendships and roistering friendships. Burning Daylight III A thaw which stripped the snow from the sidewalks; a ringing iron night when the lakes could be heard booming; a clear roistering morning. Main Street He had already done the evening chores and had seen Hal, dressed and ready for a roistering night in town, come out of the farmhouse and go into the road. Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life I think—I often think of it— The day we twain first faced the crowd; My roistering friends impeached your fit, But you and I were very proud! Songs and Other Verse Theodorick was a roistering blade, much opposed to his younger brother's reading habits, caring himself for nothing but pleasure. Famous Americans of Recent Times The button-bush hung out her balls, and white alder painted the air with faint perfume; willow-herb built her bowery arches, and the flags were ever glancing like swords of roistering knights. Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life The roisterer, Matthew, was by this time forty-six years of age, and, I suppose, had grown tired of roistering. Birds of Prey It would then be possible to suggest that Shakespeare grew from a bold roistering youth into a melancholy, thoughtful old age, touching both extremes of manhood in his own development. The Man Shakespeare The newspapers were free in their condemnation of the feasting and roistering at ordination-services. Sabbath in Puritan New England In truth they were a band of roistering blades, and by day and by night, when not dead drunk, were restless, noisy, vociferous, and terribly profane. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale Never had such a set of noisy, roistering, swaggering varlets landed in peaceful Communipaw. Wolfert's Roost and Miscellanies And I heard that for four livelong days those overwise roisters had been at it ding-dong, disputing on three high, more than metaphysical propositions, promising themselves mountains of gold by solving them. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 In the old play entitled "The Famous Victories of Henry V.," and in the popular mouth, Shakespeare found roistering Prince Hal. The Man Shakespeare In the late afternoon, followed by a troop of roistering companions, he came out upon a street flanked with small, brick warehouses facing the river, where steamboats lay tied to floating docks. Windy McPherson's Son Here there were still people about, for it was a rendezvous both for roistering young gallants, thieves, and others starting on midnight adventures. At Agincourt Are you Revenue-men that you dare shout and roister? or contrabandiers with the lugger in the offing, and your life in your hand. Moonfleet The leader throws off his coat and stands thick and muscular in his blue jeans—a roistering fellow with a red face, thick neck and chapped hands. Adventures in Friendship Then, may it please you, the effect is this: There is a certain roister, named Prodigality, That long about this town hath ruffled in great jollity! A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 If new topics are started, graver and higher, these roisters recede; a more chaste and wise attention takes place. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 Far the greater part are roistering, able-bodied fellows with wings, giving indisputable signs of good living, and of a coarseness slightly suggestive of blackguardism. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 "None of your roistering here!" cried the lady. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale When not engaged in pressing, the gangsmen were a roistering, drinking crew, under lax control and never averse from a row, either amongst themselves or with outsiders. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore It was otherwise with the roistering swash-bucklers who came back in that glorious autumn. The Coming of the Friars He now suspected that the grave roisters of the mountain had put a trick upon him, and, having dosed him with liquor, had robbed him of his gun. Legends That Every Child Should Know; a Selection of the Great Legends of All Times for Young People I think of the Burroughs branch of my ancestry as rather retiring, peace-loving, solitude-loving men—men not strongly sketched in on the canvas of life, not self-assertive, never roistering or uproarious—law-abiding, and church-going. Our Friend John Burroughs The verderer, roistering Hob Roebuck, swore roundly, "'Twere as good a deed as to eat, to kick down the chapel as well as the monk." Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers To many others, it is a day of roistering and debauch. Their Yesterdays And this attitude to life was written all over their personalities; they seemed to Thyrsis a coarse and roistering crew, and he shrunk from them in repugnance. Love's Pilgrimage They wouldn't believe him when he insisted that these places were not what they used to be, and that Montmartre was now the fashionable roistering ground. Her Weight in Gold What do you suppose that Roger and his crowd are doing when they go roistering about the streets at night? Sylvia's Marriage And behind him stood peering, some with wide eyes of terror, and some with ready laughs at nothing, the few other roisters in the tavern at that hour. The Heart's Highway That great, roistering, brown man would fold her to himself—she would yield to him every inch of her palpitant, passionate body. The Barrier He might play pool at McCloskey's with his roistering friends until Aurora dimmed the electric bulbs if he chose. The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million The scallop and oyster Their two shells did roister, Like castanets flitting; While limpets moved clearly, And rocks very nearly With laughter were splitting. The Lilac Fairy Book For among the "Jews, Turks, infidels, and heretics" who then thronged its busy streets, there were no worse livers than the roistering soldiers who had followed Albuquerque. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither He's such a roistering, bragging personage that I've named him Benvenuto Cellini—though he's neither liar nor thief. Children of the Whirlwind With darkness, the roistering at the barbecue became louder. Down the Mother Lode Their roistering exploits, indeed, have made these rivermen almost better known at play than at work. The Paths of Inland Commerce; a chronicle of trail, road, and waterway The king's angry tone and his insulting reference to Bu-lot's well-known cowardice brought a sudden, sobering silence upon the roistering company. Tarzan the Terrible An infuriated elephant lifted the side of the old Edgewood Tavern barn, and the wild laughter of the roistering rum-drinkers who were tantalizing the animals floated down to the river's edge. Story of Waitstill Baxter How do YOU know the title my roistering bullies give me? Lilith, a romance What he'd have done was never known, for the whole room-full of prankish, loud-voiced, roistering men was suddenly struck dumb by the unwonted sound of a lady's voice out in the darkness. Down the Mother Lode Even an ordinary roistering bacchanalian party brought him out from under a tree or a shed in the keenest satisfaction. Selected Stories of Bret Harte |
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