| 单词 | roisterer |
| 例句 | And his friends, who were daredevil roisterers, chased after him. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He is every flabby inch the ramshackle roisterer, who announces the keynote of his unbuttoned, spilling-over performance in his spluttering rejection of the notion that he "confine" himself. Twelfth Night; Tiger Country; The Painter ? review 2011-01-23T00:06:05Z I came to talk with you, to get away from the roisterers at the château... Voices from the Past 2012-04-19T02:00:30.787Z Matt was in the habit of passing the "hotel" each evening on his return to the gaol, and soon the roisterers began inviting him in to have a drink or two. Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer 2012-01-01T03:00:06.887Z When he comes to his family there are shouts and laughter, and rosy-mouthed roisterers stand ready to pillage the plethoric pockets laden to the flaps with bananas and oranges he has starved himself to procure. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. 2011-12-12T03:00:23.897Z One midnight a party 41 of roisterers hauled the unpopular Gaylor out of his study, pulled off his bags, and dragged him by the heels a lap or two about the quad. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z Only let the dance begin; I shall have a thousand or two of such roisterers as my old comrades would not be ashamed of. The Deluge, Vol. II. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-09-05T02:00:23.933Z I cannot imagine any band of tavern tipplers or jovial roisterers ever meeting there, but it was doubtless used for political gatherings. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z And again she made a courtesy with exceeding dignity, and it was somehow out of place for the Orsha roisterers in the presence of that courtly maiden. The Deluge, Vol. I. (of 2) An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. 2011-08-26T02:00:24.433Z Trouble nothing over it," said Sherwood; "indeed, he went against his will; they were an uproarious lot o' roisterers, and carried him off willy-nilly, fairly by main force, now I think on't. A Maid of Many Moods 2011-08-23T02:00:27.517Z Dawn was breaking when the roisterers finally rolled back to Wallingford's apartments. Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford 2011-08-11T02:00:13.017Z Will you find in your famous Place Louis Quinze any roisterer of the regency grown old and careful of his diet? From the Easy Chair, series 3 2011-05-14T02:00:12.237Z Outside the hotel could be heard carriage wheels rolling off with late roisterers, who had outstayed the ball. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z A glance at these roisterers told the young cavalier who and what they were:—a troop of the returned army from the north, that had been lately, and somewhat clandestinely, brought southward by the king. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z Thou art become a roisterer, a drinker an' a gambler that lives but to hear the clink o' gold against the table. A Maid of Many Moods 2011-08-23T02:00:27.517Z All these belated roisterers he pictured as reeling in and out of his office under the visible effects of illegal stimulation. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z He was no roisterer, and his habits were clean. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z It was whitewashed, so that it stood out on the darkest nights to remind roisterers that law and order were in their midst. The Pioneers 2010-12-20T17:12:11.787Z A party of roisterers came shouting across the street. The Bread Line A Story of a Paper The roisterers on the beach could do no more than discern a couple of resting forms, a common sight in the bathing season. Love's Usuries Cavalier in English was early applied in a contemptuous sense to an overbearing swashbuckler—a roisterer or swaggering gallant. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" Thou speakest truly, O wise citizen of this worthy republic," said Diogenes, boldly answering the man's low-spoken words, "my father was one of the roisterers who came in English Leicester's train. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel "Ever at your quips, roisterer," said Innerkepple, as they arrived at the court. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative The last faint twinkle now goes out Up in the poet's attic; And the roisterers, in merry rout, Speed home with steps erratic. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 Now the uproar became more distinct, and evidently proceeded from some person or persons outside, who were provided with some ingenious facilities for kicking up a row, with which ordinary roisterers are unacquainted. The History and Records of the Elephant Club Cospatric, in all his sober senses, was helping an overcome roisterer across the court late at night. The Recipe for Diamonds I remember the English Leicester and his crowd, men of loose morals and doubtful piety; braggarts and roisterers we all thought them. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel As the rumpus died down something very like remorse overwhelmed the roisterers as they saw Daisy's flushing, quivering little face, hot with mortification. Wild Justice: Stories of the South Seas The barbarian roisterers then proceeded blustering along the road, when they chanced to meet a colonist. King Philip Makers of History "Mark one!" cried a second roisterer, and a cork, better aimed than the orange, struck the Colonel sharply on the chin. The Wild Geese Enter once more the junior tutor; nothing said to the roisterer; Cospatric to pay an official call at twelve-thirty on the morrow. The Recipe for Diamonds But the tenderfeet, the drunken roisterers, were of different clay. Louisiana Lou A Western Story The Manager pulled himself free from the roisterers and escaped into the Bank by the side door, and the diggers continued noisily on their way. The Tale of Timber Town Phormio chose devious alleys, and they met neither Scythian constables nor bands of roisterers. A Victor of Salamis A wastrel, a roisterer by night, a spendthrift, and a thief! The Pagan Madonna The scene of the roisterers, rousing the night-owl in a catch, rouses the heart, as all real creation does, with the thought that life is too wonderful to end. William Shakespeare A half-hour later the roisterers, who had meant to carry Constantine Jopp on a rail, carried Terry O’Ryan on their shoulders through the town, against his will. Northern Lights One of the roisterers, who had been loud in his threats of what he meant to do to the Indians, lost his braggadocio instantly. The Fighting Edge Occasional far-off shouts were heard from roisterers going home. The House with the Green Shutters The coming event seemed to cast its shadow before; and throughout the night the roisterer or belated traveller made a détour to visit the human shambles. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis The street was deserted save for a party of roisterers, who passed them, singing at the top of their voices. The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers And when disorder occurred, a word from this gray, hawk-eyed rover was enough to quell the wildest roisterers from the plantations. Blackbeard: Buccaneer You must sit by the fire till those roisterers have drunk themselves to sleep. The Northern Iron Gourlay was merely boasting—as young blades are apt to do of acquaintance with older roisterers. The House with the Green Shutters "Yet I cannot very well," replied the ex-monk, "wear a blue coat, like a roisterer at a dance!" The Gods are Athirst The cautious Ben Jonson, when his erstwhile taproom roisterer, Will Shakespeare, was dead, defied "insolent Greece or haughty Rome" to show his superior. 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 A trifle near-sighted, he was quite close to the tavern before he espied his own nephew and ward, Jack Cockrell, in this shameful company of roisterers. Blackbeard: Buccaneer Quebec did not mean to admit these roisterers within her precincts, which were none too well guarded. A Little Girl in Old Quebec They had kept below, most of the time, in the main cabin, with other roisterers, and it began to look as if they had decided to let the Adams party alone. Gold Seekers of '49 Have you nothing better to do than spend your time brawling like a couple of tavern roisterers? The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country A murmur of anger followed in the wake of two roisterers who were making their way down the path. Danger! and Other Stories Naturally, at first the predatory confined their attentions to the roisterers. The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Toasts to the "wooden walls of Columbia," and the "rising navy of America," were drunk with cheers at stately public banquets, and by bands of jolly roisterers at tap-houses. The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 I waited until the last noisy roisterer had gone. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance The description in the agent's catalogue that the Jungle Queen would "sleep four" was probably based on the experience of a party of young roisterers who had once hired the vessel. The Angel of Terror A party of drunken roisterers staggered beneath the window, singing coarse songs and bandying their brutal jests. The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV Heinrich was not a roisterer like his father: he was a man of education and dignity. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians He sat on top, you may remember, and sucked oranges to ward off malaria, he and that prince of roisterers, Uncle George. Journeys to Bagdad The half-dozen hangers-on about the railway station, and the roisterers at the one, open-all-night saloon were growing inquisitive, if not impudent. Lanier of the Cavalry or, A Week's Arrest The roisterers gazed at the paper, or began their preparations for departure. Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain Giddy with the reaction, the Hon. Seneca Bowers gulped glass after glass of champagne, toasting Confusion to Fusion like the veriest roisterer. The Henchman He had stopped at inns in strange company of fools and knaves, pedlars, roisterers and swashbucklers. Platform Monologues Christmas Eve night on Royal Street is no place for a weakling, for the shouts and carousals of the roisterers will strike fear into the brave. Violets and Other Tales It was in Holborn going eastwards and here the din and clatter were heightened by the shouts of drunken roisterers. Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' Full of patriotic enthusiasm, Cousin Jack set off bombs and firecrackers, until the elder Maynards declared that their ears ached, and the roisterers must come in to breakfast. Marjorie at Seacote "I am no brawling roisterer, but have never been above giving and receiving blows." Prisoners of Chance The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, through His Love for a Lady of France The table stood as the roisterers had left it; the very wreck and litter of a bacchanalian feast. 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 When the little party reached the town it attracted a great deal of attention from the rough roisterers who were strolling about or gambling in shady places. Kate Bonnet The Romance of a Pirate's Daughter With a short, sharp cry she sank upon the ground, exhausted and half dead with terror, and she heard the brutal shout of triumph with which the roisterers hailed this sight. The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn A Story of the Days of the Gunpowder Plot Despite the fact that Chloe had known them only as fierce roisterers she was forced to admit that they looked harmless and peaceful enough, under the chastening effect of a week of starvation. The Gun-Brand And respectfully, though determinedly, as one would guide a flock of sheep, he turned the roisterers toward the door that led into the private assembly-room. The Grey Cloak But as if the bad blood of the entire family had come to a head in one man, Richard was born a roisterer and a spendthrift. A Woman Named Smith All night roisterers had flanked his room, there had been the buzz of eager argument overhead, riot of dispute below, and continual thudding of hurrying feet in the corridors. The Ramrodders A Novel Now were we gladder than ever of Vigo's escort; for whenever we approached a band of roisterers or of gentlemen with lights, mademoiselle sheltered herself behind the equery's broad back, hidden as behind a tower. Helmet of Navarre The older of the two young men at the table nodded toward the roisterers and murmured information. A Man Four-Square The roisterers could be heard discussing wagers, some of which concerned horses, scandals, and women. The Grey Cloak Wickersham drew about him many companions, but they were mainly men of light weight, roisterers and loafers, whilst the better class of his fellow-students quickly awoke to a true realization of the case. Gordon Keith The bulk of the young roisterers thus assembled belonged to one of those bands of Scourers of which Frederick claimed to be the head. The Sign of the Red Cross What should they see in me but an empty-headed roisterer, frittering away his life in follies? Helmet of Navarre "Who be the roisterers within?" demanded a passing citizen of one of these supporters. Sir Mortimer The roisterers went their devious ways, sobered and subdued. The Grey Cloak After all, it was just some roisterer on his way home from the festival. The Motor Maids in Fair Japan But she spoke not to me of any roisterers. The Sign of the Red Cross It seemed impossible that he could be the same raw rustic youth who, a few short months ago, was accounted the greatest roisterer of his own county. Tom Tufton's Travels But if the special phenomena of a later day were missing from the carnival, others, as astonishing to us as the steam-organ would have been to those uncouth roisterers, were certainly present. Tales of the Five Towns Around a huge silver bowl sat a company of roisterers, all flushed with wine and the attendant false happiness. The Grey Cloak Then the heavens are filled with a new glory, and the dazzling sun leaves his bath at the same time with all these merry roisterers who have shared it with him. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 The sacredness of a building solemnly consecrated to God by their pious forefathers seemed to mean nothing to the reckless roisterers of that shameless age. The Sign of the Red Cross Something in Rachel's face and in her manner of speaking seemed to make an impression upon the young roisterer. Tom Tufton's Travels Aged roisterer that I am, I fall for the compliment. The "Goldfish" "No, nothing interests me; but one grows weary of wine-bibbers and roisterers, of spendthrifts and sponges." The Grey Cloak "The devil's babes!" muttered the Alderman; "there is no want of roisterers to torment such innocents!" The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas Now it did indeed look like a city of the dead, for not even an idle roisterer, or a drunkard stumbling homewards with uncertain gait, was to be seen. The Sign of the Red Cross As he pursued his way westward, he met parties of young rakes and roisterers setting out for the theatres, the play being then an earlier function than it has become of late years. Tom Tufton's Travels We have our choice,—or to come to Him as a laborer comes at evening for the day’s wages fairly earned, or to come as a roisterer haled before the magistrate.” Chivalry The roisterers were becoming hilarious once more, and the Chevalier grew restive. The Grey Cloak Down a long narrow lane we went, meeting some wanderers and some roisterers; and, as we rode, we heard the Cathedral bells still clanging out their welcome to the King. The Prisoner of Zenda Christmas Eve on Royal Street is no place for a weakling, for the shouts and carousels of the roisterers will strike fear into the bravest ones. The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories Pay no heed to drunken roisterers i' the streets, Tom," advised his mentor; "a quarrel is quicker provoked than mended, except at the sword's point, and unseemly is brawling at street corners. Tom Tufton's Travels I drank with those gentle roisterers all through their starlit night, and if we stopped when morning came it was more from weariness than virtue. Gulliver of Mars Like a pack of demoralized sheep the roisterers crowded and pressed into the hall. The Grey Cloak Jonathan strolled here or loitered there; but saw none of the roisterers. The Last Trail Outside the windows, the night world went by—taxi-cabs full of roisterers, women who walked stealthily close to the buildings, a truck carrying steel, so heavy that it shook the hospital as it rumbled by. K They were approaching the top of the hill when a sudden sound of shrieking met their ears, mixed with the loud laughter and half-drunken shouts of the roisterers. Tom Tufton's Travels She had with her eyes open promised to marry this Englishman--fop! dullard! roisterer! insolent cub!--so the rough words tumbled to my tongue. In the Valley The roisterers burst into song again … "When Ma'm'selle drinks from her satin shoe With a Bacchante's love for a Bacchic brew!" The Grey Cloak The German soldier rapped out a rough jagged oath at this spectacle, and shouldering his way through the roisterers he sprang upon the altar. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 The roisterer's garments were very wet, and it was in vain that his wife and Philip Sheldon entreated him to change them for dry ones, or to go to bed immediately. Birds of Prey Pardon me—to live with that roisterer coming in upon me when and whence he pleased—I prefer my broken life and my loneliness—with you! Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales The prophet forces the end of a drunken nation on the unwilling attention of the roisterers, in verses 13-17, which throb with vehemence of warning and gloomy eloquence. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah The roisterers flocked down the steps to the street. The Grey Cloak I can now, Master Pettigrue, smoke my pipe in peace, without pricking up my ears at every chance rumble of a wheel or shout of a village roisterer.' Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 The roisterer, Matthew, was by this time forty-six years of age, and, I suppose, had grown tired of roistering. Birds of Prey He saw Sue, all in white, radiant and wonderful, coming toward him down a broad stairway, toward him, the newsboy of Caxton, the smuggler of game, the roisterer, the greedy moneygetter. Windy McPherson's Son Moreover, as I stood and listened I could hear a mutter of deep voices inside, not as of roisterers, but of sober men talking low. Moonfleet Had there been a violent death among them, the roisterers would have accepted the event with drunken philosophy. The Grey Cloak Landor was sent away from Oxford "for criticizing a noisy party with a shot gun," which he discharged against the closed shutters of the room where the roisterers were holding their festivities. Halleck's New English Literature There was one young Kentish squire, Farley was his name, who had earned a reputation in the town as a bully and a roisterer. Uncle Bernac A Memory of the Empire Now and then a fight broke out among the roisterers in Piety Hollow. Windy McPherson's Son An argument seemed to be going on between the slaves whom Pertinax had set to keep the roisterers away and some one who demanded admission. Caesar Dies I am sorry, young master, that these roisterers should have affronted you, as my wife tells me that they have. The Children of the New Forest Suddenly, some roisterer, passing along the street with his companions, laughed a loud, reckless, half drunken, laugh that sounded in the quiet darkness with startling clearness. Their Yesterdays What would he not give to be in the roisterer's boots instead of his own? Viola Gwyn "You cannot deny, Hawke, that you dined at the marble house with the beauty whom we are all toasting," said a rallying roisterer. A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story He was considerably amazed by the swiftness with which his ally "rounded-up" the five roisterers. Mr. Bingle The tumult reaches its height, whereupon the Graces rise in horror and seek to put a stop to the wild conduct of the dancing rout and drive the mad roisterers from the scene. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music His reputation in New York was that of a man of the town, a rich roisterer, a 'breaker of hearts,' as your uncle has often called him. Castle Craneycrow He spent the vacation with his Grandmother Baker in Great Cumberland Place, and he and his brother amused themselves about town with other roisterers, chiefly in gambling. The Life of Sir Richard Burton A band of roisterers, linked arm in arm, were trying to break up the orderly march of thousands into a chaotic fight. In the Year of Jubilee It was very quiet—no grog-shops or saloons-of-entertainment in this neighbourhood, thank goodness!—and the hour was still too early for drunken roisterers to come reeling home. Australia Felix 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 Never in all his life had he made such hurried and seemingly unnecessary progress through a blockading crowd of roisterers. Castle Craneycrow I have passed them," the woman said, "but all seemed full of roisterers. St. George for England At the present or in the past these woods roisterers, this Fighting Forty, had known love. The Blazed Trail Outside, the night wind, rising, began to howl through the naked branches, and a louder burst of yells came to us from the roisterers in the distance. To Have and to Hold We want some one who will swoop down upon these merry roisterers, and, as it were, soak to them good. Psmith, Journalist Cotton was a roisterer, a man at one time deep in debt, but he was a Royalist, a scholar, and an angler. Introduction to the Compleat Angler I have an idea that there lay buried there a son who had been killed in a roisterers' brawl. Through Russia Pears he had in plenty, none the less he went, with a band of roisterers, and pillaged another man’s pear tree. Adventures Among Books Some late roisterers passing by in the street were heard singing to the twang of a mandolin. Other Things Being Equal She brushed the roisterers aside, and darted for the door. The White Moll Except the roisterers in the tavern, the village folk were abed. Roads of Destiny As I remembered it—as he sang it—it recounted the adventures of one Don Francisco, a provincial gallant and roisterer of the most objectionable type. Selected Stories of Bret Harte The circle quickly recognized the voices of their old friends the roisterers and gamblers from Sawyer's Dam; they as quickly recognized the returning shouts here and there from a few companions who were welcoming them. Selected Stories of Bret Harte |
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