roisterer

He'd been a brawler and a roisterer, and still was, to the best his elderly body could stand up to it.

The roisterer wore a soft gray hat.

Cotton was a roisterer, a man at one time deep in debt, but he was a Royalist, a scholar, and an angler.

Ciao and good riddance, Silvio, you priapic old Italian roisterer!

A tavern roisterer so early?"

The regenerative treatment had nearly restored Kyle Macdonald to the brawny, handsome roisterer she had fallen in love with thirty-nine years ago.

But Peckinpah, his role model, was a hard-drinking, hard-driving, hard-living roisterer who routinely fired half his crew before a movie was finished.

Viridovix watched his friend with surprised respect; a roisterer in Videssos, the Arshaum was learning to be a prince.

The tanner with the frizzled mustache stood up as his opponent doled out the stake, while a half-toothless roisterer on the sidelines shouted, "Where's your courage, man?

In one of them, late as it was, he could hear an argument taking place obviously some roisterer who had taken advantage of the absence of flying to get himself drunk.

Lewis's work also invites comparison with the pieces by his contemporary Texas roisterer Gary Cartwright, also published by Texas Monthly Press, in l982.

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.'

Proud, boastful, dreamy, defiant and wily, he is a man of high principle and ribald wit, a roisterer who loves telling tall tales and drinking prodigious quantities of wine.

She was bred by Noreen and Trevor Simmons and her sire was Chesara Dark Roisterer, her dam Javictreva Kaleidoscope.

Nearby, a glass of luminous pinkish wine held aloft by a roisterer in Steen's riotous "Merry Company on a Terrace" is slightly canted, implying that the character is off-center.

Based on fact and legend, this fictional memoir portrays the great Tang dynasty poet Li Po (A.D. 700-762) as an inspired roisterer, fond of wine and tall tales.

They are silent except for a single "I'm only three and a half years old", and retreat when one of Jones great cats shows up - a Rube Goldberg by day, drunken roisterer by night.

Mary, of course, knew nothing of all this, and she readily accepted Barney's story of the gambling joint, because it fitted in with the picture of him, as an unprincipled young roisterer, that she knew of old.

Beer is O.K. for Milwaukee or Chicago, but in New York what roisterer out for a night on the town would think of topping off dinner and a Broadway show with a pitcher of suds?

He is a self-dramatizer, easily able to switch from barroom roisterer to battlefield campaigner (and coward), while always retaining a comic sense of equilibrium and an affectionate regard for Hal, who will, of course, in the subsequent play, abandon him.

In 1605, notorious roisterer Mary Frith may have appeared on the boards, singing and playing a lute; it is not clear from the consistory court records in which this event is described if the players were a party to her antics.

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.