How To Use Roister In A Sentence
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Working people lived here, dockworkers and ware-housemen: they didn't roister long into the night.
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In the midst of the dinners and lunches, the luaus (Hawaiian feasts) and poi-suppers, and swims and dances in aloha (love) to both of them, his time and inclination were claimed by the crowd of lively youngsters of old Kohala days who had come to know that they possessed digestions and various other internal functions, and who had settled down to somewhat of sedateness, who roistered less, and who played bridge much, and went to baseball often.
THE KANAKA SURF
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And the word "Yule" must be significant here as well, since pagans of all sorts have been roistering at the winter solstice ever since records were kept, and Christians have been faced with the choice of either trying to beat them or join them.
Forced Merriment: The True Spirit of Christmas
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Working people lived here, dockworkers and ware-housemen: they didn't roister long into the night.
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The old man was ticked off in seeing that two kids saw his new invention, mistaking us for some roisterers.
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In a drunken rage, the three roisterers set off in a run until they came to the tree, and there they found a pile of gold.
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Having fun with words can involve creative rhymes (“I do not roister with an oyster”) and nonce coinages (“my family was a scribacious lot”).
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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Working people lived here, dockworkers and ware-housemen: they didn't roister long into the night.
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Together they capture those long-lit days of summer when we roistered round the village.
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Daylight's friendships, in lieu of anything closer, were drinking friendships and roistering friendships.
Chapter XVIII
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Working people lived here, dockworkers and ware-housemen: they didn't roister long into the night.
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The attendant brew of love, guilt, and toddler-set social pressures puts an arguably unrealistic value on someone with the skills, and the willingness, to control and delight a roistering roomful of preschoolers for a blessed half-hour.
The Fiddler in the Subway
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As the old roisterer was being carted off to hospital on a stretcher he looked up at a gawping gaggle of tourists in the hotel lobby and gasped: ‘It was the food!’
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He hadn't noticed the near-gale either, roistering down the bracken- and boulder-clad mountainside as if ie were a ski-run.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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They didn't pray and then roister on Midwinter's Day.
Bridge of the Separator
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Henry, a robust, roistering and commanding Robert Lindsay, has invited his wife Eleanor to come out of prison where he put her, for trying to bump him off for the occasion.
Reasons to Be Pretty; Juno and the Paycock; The Lion in Winter – review
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Mr. Ziegler's is an elegant, sympathetic, and extremely readable biography, which really does breathe the breath of roistering life back into the vanished knight of letters.
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He hadn't noticed the near-gale either, roistering down the bracken- and boulder-clad mountainside as if ie were a ski-run.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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He saw the cubs and adults roistering on the huge expanse of lawn that belonged to the posh street running parallel to Hillside Drive.
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But already others were speaking, more than one at once, and the wind roistered about and scattered their words out of reach.
Wildfire
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And the more the public see of the fey, metrosexual roistering of "Posh & Cleggs" in the Downing Street rose garden, the sooner Labour will return to power.
Tristram Hunt's election: a new boy lost within a Gothic Wonderland
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`Samuel Byrd, progenitor and jokester, was supposed to have been the classic roistering robber baron," Livvy said.
DEATH OF A NYMPH
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The first is devoted to work, the middle bit to domestic arrangements and the latter part to roistering in the style to which tabloid readers have become accustomed.
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He hadn't noticed the near-gale either, roistering down the bracken- and boulder-clad mountainside as if ie were a ski-run.
A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
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He had roistered and drunk until he was sent to the hospital.
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While we're not suggesting for a moment that any of the roistering Gooners pictured above were misbehaving this afternoon having fun before a football match hasn't been outlawed ... yet, reports from Milan earlier this afternoon told of drunken Arsenal fans chasing a couple of rival supporters into the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele and subsequently throwing cans and bottles at police.
AC Milan 4-0 Arsenal – as it happened | Barry Glendenning
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He is every flabby inch the ramshackle roisterer, who announces the keynote of his unbuttoned, spilling-over performance in his spluttering rejection of the notion that he "confine
The Guardian World News
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And finally, it was in immense relief that the hilariously drunken Lensman, his money gone to the last millo, went roistering up the street with a two-quart bottle in each hand; swigging now from one, then from the other; inviting bibulously the while any and all chance comers to join him in one last, fond drink.
Gray Lensman
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He was rather worried about the traditional images of the gods as great roisterers and murderers and thieves, and all of these other characteristics that the Olympians had.
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She roistered her phaser and detached her tricorder from her belt.
Mind Meld
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He, who was sheer bladed steel in the imperious flashing of his will, could swashbuckle and bully like any over-seas roisterer, or wheedle as wickedly winningly as the first woman out of Eden or the last woman of that descent.
CHAPTER XI
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Rome ran herself; as the man in charge, he could do precisely what he wanted, which was to roister.
Antony and Cleopatra
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How do YOU know the title my roistering bullies give me?
Lilith, a romance
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In an echo of the wild rumpus scenes from "Where the Wild Things Are," we soon embark on six densely illustrated but wordless pages of roistering, in which Bumble-Ardy and his friends feed one another cake, rattle tambourines and prance about with birthday banners.
Sendak's Party Animals
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And he saw the cubs and adults roistering on the huge expanse of lawn that belonged to the posh street running parallel to Hillside Drive.
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And the word "Yule" must be significant here as well, since pagans of all sorts have been roistering at the winter solstice ever since records were kept, and Christians have been faced with the choice of either trying to beat them or join them.
Forced Merriment: The True Spirit of Christmas
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While his chief roistered in Athens and made little trips across the Adriatic to torment me, a colleague, for not achieving my objectives as stated in our agreement.
Antony and Cleopatra
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The Wild Irish boy assumes the role of a roistering English rake, while Armida plays the part of an Italian diva.
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The number of valetudinarians continued to decrease and the Spa House became in time the headquarters of the roistering Rakes of Mallow.
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What the terms do not evoke is the roistering figure of Pancho Villa, who would be as out of place among a group of spike-helmeted Prussian militarists, as Jesse Jackson at an Aryan Nations rally.
Pancho Villa as a German Agent...
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Having fun with words can involve creative rhymes (“I do not roister with an oyster”) and nonce coinages (“my family was a scribacious lot”).
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
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Against a flat midnight-blue background the roistering figures tumble about, squabbling with each other or brandishing colourful fire-sticks.
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After Independence, orphaned and alone at seventeen, Jackson apprenticed in the law at Salisbury, North Carolina, and developed a reputation as a wild young man who drank, gambled, and roistered.
A Country of Vast Designs
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They keep inviting him out to hunt with them, to go drinking in the ale houses, to roister round the streets in masks, and he, nervously, declines.
The White Queen
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He may be a roisterer and act the fool, but he's got ‘bottom’, as they used to say in the 18th century, meaning he has substance.
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`Samuel Byrd, progenitor and jokester, was supposed to have been the classic roistering robber baron," Livvy said.
DEATH OF A NYMPH
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I talked him out of it that time, and he got to workin 'on the Fish Patrol, runnin' down the very guys he used to roister around with.
Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon
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He has affectionate memories of those days and the roistering workers who got drunk on Saturday nights.
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A group of roistering guys and gals grinned beerily over a table thickly covered with bottles and glasses.
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And Julie's roistering scapegrace of a brother, Tony, could be no one other than John Barrymore.
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As the exuberant Ford encores with the roistering folk-punk of Nothing at All and his acerbic signature tune, Cheer Up (You Miserable Fuck), it's clear that he is an artist deserving of a far wider audience.
David Ford
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Don't misunderstand me - I'm not going to run right out and start roistering around, smoking and drinking and carrying on.
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Harnessed four lions to a chariot, assembled an entourage of magicians, dancing girls, and clowns, and roistered heedlessly.
Antony and Cleopatra
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Ay, you must know that my husband, he drank, loafed round the parish to roister and prate, wasted and trampled our gear under foot.
Peer Gynt
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It's been a roisterous time, filled with every strength and variety of wind from a ragamuffin breeze right through to a force eight gale, whipping in from the sea and over the moors.
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Within the narrow range of south-western Holland, he roistered from one town to another, storing up themes and stories as he went.
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Predecessor, first induing a mask like some roguish roistering
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863
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Piper lived with Arthur and me for four months in 2002, when we roistered around the local show circuit.
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There are cleverly inflected performances from Ellie Haddington and Catherine Cusack (as the dramatist's mean daughter) but the most rousing moments of the evening are supplied by Richard McCabe as a roistering Ben Jonson.
Women Beware Women; Bingo