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Definition of Roistering
1. roister [v] - See also: roister
Lexicographical Neighbors of Roistering
Literary usage of Roistering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The School of Shakspere by William Shakespeare, J. W. M. Gibbs (1878)
"He, however, dislikes the law, and has become a roistering city gallant and
spendthrift. ... The town's governor is Captain Herbert, a sometime roistering ..."
2. Official Report of the Thirteenth Universal Peace Congress: Held at Boston (1904)
"It seemed more probable to that showman that two acts of creation should have
taken place than that the roistering boy who went poaching should ever have ..."
3. Official Report of the Thirteenth Universal Peace Congress: Held at Boston (1904)
"It seemed more probable to that showman that two acts of creation should have
taken place than that the roistering boy who went poaching should ever have ..."
4. The U-boat Hunters by James Brendan Connolly (1918)
"Are they doing great work or are they tied up to a dock at the naval base, and
their officers and crews roistering ashore ?" I can say from several weeks' ..."
5. Europe Viewed Through American Spectacles by Charles Carroll Fulton (1874)
"Any youth of a wealthy family coming here and going earnestly to study, and
refusing to join any of these roistering and beer-drinking societies, ..."
6. Colonial facts and fictions by Mark Kershaw (1886)
"When you are roistering, your father and mother in Britain may be praying; and
when your father and mother in Britain are roistering, you may be praying. ..."
7. Furope Viewed Through American Spectacles by Charles Carroll Fulton (1874)
"The majority of them are turned out upon the world professors of nothing but
roistering and beer-swilling. After four years of such life as they have led at ..."
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