The taverns were full of roystering Cavaliers, smoking, drinking, dicing, and singing bacchanalian songs.
It would almost seem as if the Scots had retired to rest earlier than their wont to avoid hearing the songs and laughter of their roystering comrades.
And even as a child he seemed every bit as different from me, a roystering child to be a roystering man--and so you can imagine how very impossible it was for the one child to discover the secret of the other's dislike.
The walls are suggestively hung with Lists of the Great Tithes and such congenial paintings as A Bench of Bishops, represented regaling at a roystering banquet, Susannah and the Elders, Brasenose College, &c.
Irish squires, roystering Irish barristers, toddling home in pairs after having stowed away under their belts as many as twelve bottles of claret a piece, during a prolonged sitting, i.
Even here, their quiet was unpleasantly disturbed by the roysteringmerriment of their followers in the distant kitchen, who stoutly maintained their freedom to carouse and drink pretty much as they listed.
He accordingly set sail on the 4th of October, after having spent forty-five days at New Archangel boosing and bargaining with its roystering commander, and right glad was he to escape from the clutches of "this old man of the sea.
Every minute the throng grew denser, and it had fared hardly with roystering Moll, had not a wedding and the arrest of a debtor presently distracted the gaping idlers.
And, by way of contrast, while the Switcher was an accomplished artist, Gentleman Harry was a roystering braggart.
Sir Charles is encouraged in his suit by his roystering uncle, Sir Anthony.
In 1685 she played Isabella in Tate's farcical A Duke and no Duke, and five years later she is billed as the roystering Widow Ranter in Mrs. Behn's posthumous comedy of the same name.
The only son of his father, an honest man, and a quiet man, not a roystering drunken robber!
In greater contrast is the roystering drinking song of Cardenas, the Mexican bandit, who was characterized by Eugene Cowles without in any way overdoing a part easily overdone.
The roystering set would be as many as a dozen, and all were more or less drunk.
A loud, roystering laugh filled the air, and echoed from the hills.
The whole work is enveloped in a voluptuous atmosphere; it is written in a gay roystering style, but although the indelicacy is great the humour is small.
That according to his notions had been an enjoyable, a roystering Sunday.
I did become acquainted with one of these Holy Roystering Cavalieros, by the name of Don Ercolo Amadeo Sparafucile di San Lorenzo, that was a perfect Model of all these Characteristics.
How think you would they welcome the story of the roystering rake and debauchee who deserted the army of King Charles because they were about to hang him for murder?
Nor had he cause to regret it thereafter, for throughout that tedious march he found his roystering companion singularly meek and kindly.
Our roystering plunderers doubtless intended to sup on their spoils at that tavern.
Sober, sedate, nay phlegmatic as they usually appeared to be, their roystering was on a pretty high key, when it once fairly commenced.
The strong ale which he brewed in October, is tapped in March by roystering troopers.
In short, such a roystering Puritan was never known.
Their commander was one Cornet Inglis, a rough and roystering blade.
But the mood of Claverhouse was, at worst, only that of military severity, without heart of ruth or bowels of mercy indeed; but that of Westerhall was rather of roysteringand jubilant brutality, both of action and intent.
But all roystering games in which the exuberant spirits of youth in other countries delight, are conspicuous by their absence in Siberia, and the genus, little boy, may almost be classed among the extinct mammals.
While thus roystering about one day, he saw Emmerence sitting under the walnut-tree with her knitting.
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