Full of stories, full of songs, full of wit, full of roistering spirit--yet do not trespass too much upon his good nature with insult!
Under the tree and at the tavern met all patriot bands, until the tree was cut down by the roistering British soldiers and supplied them with fourteen cords of firewood.
Out beyond the walls, shut up on the island of Osney, away from all the bustle and roistering and tumult of the town, it scarce seems life at all; and methinks the monks will get hold of thee, and win thee to be one of themselves.
The citizens themselves were little better behaved at this holiday season, and for a week disorder and roistering prevailed in defiance of any action on the part of the authorities.
For that matter, his companions in roistering sometimes paid, and he had an occasional run of luck at cards.
It was hardly late yet; but the Campbells were never of a roistering spirit; most of them went to bed; the Countess waited alone in the dining-hall.
That is why that roistering armchair displeases a true and idealistic artist.
Just look at that fat old roistering chair conversing with the thin straight-laced prig of a side-chair, next to him.
But a different air was abroad in the camp of the regulars; you would see a soldierly alertness on the part of the men, and there was no roistering in that quarter.
There are sad stories of roistering children let loose in its halls to make havoc of its treasures.
This roistering village butcher and his worthy, much-enduring wife were the parents of our millionaire.
Theodorick was a roistering blade, much opposed to his younger brother's reading habits, caring himself for nothing but pleasure.
The representation is, on the whole, so conducted as to leave the reader's sympathies at least half enlisted in favor of the fellow, rough and roistering as he is.
But neither among the Benedictines was this roisteringspirit at ease.
With darkness, theroistering at the barbecue became louder.
Of course, to our more refined ideas of propriety the conduct of her father, the Duke of Kingston, in thus thrusting his infant daughter into the society of his roistering boon-companions, cannot but appear as highly reprehensible.
A number of roistering companions used to hold a club at the Golden Fleece in Cornhill, after which they named their club.
Then, her withered romance carefully entombed in the secret places of her heart, she secured a divorce from the roistering colonel, together with a small settlement, and set sail for New York to hunt for larger and more valuable game.
She had married the roistering blade for his bank account only.
Sick to the soul, so that when thought came to him he got out of his bed to seek roistering companions or, getting pen and paper, sat for hours figuring out new and more daring schemes for money making.
In the late afternoon, followed by a troop of roistering companions, he came out upon a street flanked with small, brick warehouses facing the river, where steamboats lay tied to floating docks.
As a roistering young squire, wanting to see London life, you could go into taverns frequented by doubtful characters, for it is probably in such a place that you will find him.
Are they doing great work or are they tied up to a dock at the naval base, and their officers and crews roistering ashore?
Were they doing good work over here, or were they tied up to a dock in some port and their officers and crews roistering ashore?
I can say from several weeks' observation later that they were not doing too much roistering ashore.
Alva, I say, you roistering hound, you drunken blade, bring hither a stool for the worthy confessor!
He is of the sort to be 'hail fellow, well met' with those roistering Spaniards, who care little for God or man, as he possesseth few scruples of his own.
