What is "roisterer"

Usage examples of "roisterer".

The German soldier rapped out a rough jagged oath at this spectacle, and shouldering his way through the roisterers he sprang upon the altar.

In a catacomb bored from stone ran tunnels and passageways and balconies filled with smoky taverns, shops, a smith, a washroom with hot and cold water, niches with beds, and a common room where three dozen roisterers cheered a wrestling match among two women and a man.

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.

The stallion, impatient of new mastery, reared and plunged, snorted, came back on the bit in an attempt to get it in his teeth, and bolted straight for the group of roisterers, who scattered away, men swearing, women screaming.

Some of the younger delegates and a handful of older roisterers remained spread around the city-in bars, restaurants, discotheques, strip joints.

Limpid as a nun, he thought grumpily of her graceful, calm profile, and then saw that face flushed and sweating, still patent under a barrage of noise, heat, the incessant drunken bellowing of orders, with only the faint tension in her mouth as she hoisted a tray high above heedless roisterers, betraying her weariness.

Some of the younger delegates and a handful of older roisterers remained spread around the city-in bars, restaurants, discotheques, strip joints.

And 'twas well known indeed that he had been the first lover she had known, for the elderly country roisterers had been naught but her playmates and her father's boon companions, and Sir John had appeared at the famous birthnight supper and had been the only town man who had ever seen her in her male attire, and was among those who toasted her when she returned to the banquet-room splendid in crimson and gold, and ordered all to fall upon their knees before her.

And he struck his big black beast with the whip and it bounded away with him, hounds and huntsmen and fellow roisterers galloping after, his guests, who had caught at the reason of his wrath, grinning as they rode.

Then a file of roisterers passed close to me and stopped in a small dark copse where they tippled and talked.

Save for occasional roisterers, whose loud singing echoed from the walls and galleries round about, they had the city to themselves.

Many roisterers were students who gulped weak ale and argued the day's lessons.