Lexicographical Neighbors of Roisted
Literary usage of Roisted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dombey and Son. by Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne (1848)
"We roisted the new fellows at a slow fire, and hung 'em out of a three pair of
stairs window, with their he ids downwards. ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1891)
"... where he roisted till seven o'clock, when the country people in the neighbourhood
flocked to his assistance, and put Bothwell to flight. ..."
3. Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages by Percy Society (1851)
"... to be roisted in when time shall be, your fine cheats of all sorts, be sure
to have in store of such as these be :—a bale of hard sink ..."
4. Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages by Percy Society (1851)
"... to be roisted in when time shall be, your fine cheats of all sorts, be sure
to have in store of such as these be :—a bale of hard sink ..."
5. The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher, and Minor by David Starr Jordan (1922)
"It was, nevertheless, roisted on us by commercial and political interests 1 Some
years later I published a statement of this matter in the New York Times. ..."
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