What is "royster"

Usage examples of "royster".

Smith gave the remark the sniff of dismissal which, Royster agreed to himself, was all it deserved.

But, if Royster could say the right things, and the children played their roles .

The man walked up, gravely shook hands with Royster, and gave him a stiff, folded paper.

Stilly was visibly impressed by her, and Royster felt a pang of bitter annoyance at the friendly warmth with which Miss Smith responded.

The boy turned to leave and Royster recalled something he had meant to ask the boy about at the first opportunity.

Faith had just made her exit and would be heading for her dressing room to get out of her Royster outfit and into a roistering one.

Grim-faced young subalterns, very conscious of the bigness of the brass that occupied the platform at the far end of the cave, stamped back and forth along the ledge from squad to squad, deadly little Royster pistolettos tinkling and naked in their sweating hands.

As he swung around, the dozen or so sapphire-studded Royster pistolettos that swung picturesquely from his shoulder straps clinked and clanked madly, making him seem like a gigantic cat that the mice had belled again and again.

This young royster did mortally hate this poore man, insomuch that he would kill his sheepe, steale his oxen, and spoyle his corne and other fruits before the time of ripenesse, yet was he not contented with this, but he would encroch upon the poore mans ground, and clayme all the heritage as his owne.

The chief officers of this treasury are masters of the ceremonies, roysters, heralds, bards, orators, flatterers, dancers, tailors, gamblers, seamstresses and the like.