Lexicographical Neighbors of Roysting
Literary usage of Roysting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New English by Thomas Laurence Kington-Oliphant (1886)
"... as well as to the body; the roysting sort feed the humour of the vainglorious, p.
10. The adjective brave is connected with clothes, and means fine, p. ..."
2. The New English by Thomas Laurence Kington-Oliphant (1886)
"The word humour is now applied to the mind, as well as to the body; the roysting
sort feed the humour of the vainglorious, p. 10. ..."
3. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"{Exit. Susan. Cold comfort still. What say you, cousin Tidy? Tydy. I say this
comes of roysting, swaggering. Call me not cousin; each man for himself. ..."
4. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1850)
"I say this comes of roysting, swaggering. Call me not cousin; each man for himself.
Some men are born to mirth, and some to sorrow: I am no cousin unto them ..."
5. The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, Excluding Shakespeare by William Allan Neilson (1911)
"I «ly this comes of roysting, 1 swag- Call me not cousin ; each man for himself !
Some raen are born to mirth, and some to sorrow : » I am no ..."
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