They were heading towards us with only a comparatively small knot of roisterers to contend against, and the panting, struggling Chairmen with the Sedan Chair were immediately behind them.
The whole point now was whether the Chairmen could reach our corner before the Roisterers had succeeded in beating back the Watchmen, when of course they meant to tear Lady Castlemaine out of her chair.
His Appearance, I imagine, had been so unexpected as well as so sudden, that the young Roisterers in the front of the Crowd paused--like a Crowd always will when something totally unexpected doth occur.
Then she had to inflame the temper of a whole Crowd of Roisterers sufficiently to cause the worthy Pyncheon to take to his heels, with you in the chair.
The hotel was entirely empty, the roisterers at the Prairie Home having drawn off the idlers and spectators.
As he pursued his way westward, he met parties of young rakes and roisterers setting out for the theatres, the play being then an earlier function than it has become of late years.
The bulk of the young roisterers thus assembled belonged to one of those bands of Scourers of which Frederick claimed to be the head.
The sacredness of a building solemnly consecrated to God by their pious forefathers seemed to mean nothing to the reckless roisterers of that shameless age.
The mob of roisterers fled helter skelter, laughing and jeering.
Strange as it may appear, the awful nature of the calamity which had overtaken the great city had by no means the subduing influence upon the spirits of the lawless young roisterers of the streets that might well have been expected.
The German soldier rapped out a rough jagged oath at this spectacle, and shouldering his way through the roisterers he sprang upon the altar.
I thought as you did think that he was at the head of the roisterers who tried to bear Mistress Ruth away, though, i' faith, I can scarce think harshly of them, since they did me the greatest service that ever men did yet.
Twice we stood aside to let a party ofroisterers go by, and the excessive care M.
To few readers does it occur that these are all ideal creations of a poet's brain, and that, in sober truth, no such knot of merry roisterers ever enlivened the dull neighborhood of Eastcheap.
After wiring an explanation and mailing a check the size of which filled John Telfer with admiration, Sam with a half dozen fellowroisterers spent the late afternoon and evening going from saloon to saloon through the south side.
Now and then a fight broke out among the roisterers in Piety Hollow.
It was there I abode in much spiritual and temporal comfort with that godly man, until certain mad roisterers took offence at plain gospel speech, driving me forth into the wilderness, even as Jehovah's prophets of old.
The tumult reaches its height, whereupon the Graces rise in horror and seek to put a stop to the wild conduct of the dancing rout and drive the mad roisterers from the scene.
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 roisterers at Daphne will invent such scandalous tales of us tonight as will pursue us for a lustrum, and yet there isn't a chance in a thousand that we shall even enjoy ourselves!
Landor was sent away from Oxford "for criticizing a noisy party with a shot gun," which he discharged against the closed shutters of the room where the roisterers were holding their festivities.
I remember the English Leicester and his crowd, men of loose morals and doubtful piety; braggarts and roisterers we all thought them.
I drank with those gentle roisterers all through their starlit night, and if we stopped when morning came it was more from weariness than virtue.
The roisterers could be heard discussing wagers, some of which concerned horses, scandals, and women.
And respectfully, though determinedly, as one would guide a flock of sheep, he turned the roisterers toward the door that led into the private assembly-room.
Like a pack of demoralized sheep the roisterers crowded and pressed into the hall.
Had there been a violent death among them, the roisterers would have accepted the event with drunken philosophy.
The roisterers were becoming hilarious once more, and the Chevalier grew restive.
The roisterers flocked down the steps to the street.
It was whitewashed, so that it stood out on the darkest nights to remind roisterers that law and order were in their midst.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roisterers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
