roister

How To Use roister In A Sentence

• `Samuel Byrd, progenitor and jokester, was supposed to have been the classic roistering robber baron," Livvy said. DEATH OF A NYMPH
• Rome ran herself; as the man in charge, he could do precisely what he wanted, which was to roister. Antony and Cleopatra
• How do YOU know the title my roistering bullies give me? Lilith, a romance
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• The Wild Irish boy assumes the role of a roistering English rake, while Armida plays the part of an Italian diva.
• The number of valetudinarians continued to decrease and the Spa House became in time the headquarters of the roistering Rakes of Mallow.
• 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...