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5 total sentences available.
Then Elzevir cried out angrily, 'Silence. Are you mad, or has the liquor mastered you? Are you Revenue-men that you dare shout and roister? or contrabandiers with the lugger in the offing, and your life in your hand. You make noise enough to wake folk in Moonfleet from their beds.'
Source: wiktionary
He loved Rick and gave the best years of his life, now to roistering with him, now to hanging on to his coat-tails.
Source: wiktionary
He now suspected that the grave roysters of the mountain had put a trick on him, and having dosed him with liquor, had robbed him of his gun.
Source: wiktionary
The youth who had joined the roisters, was apparently about eighteen[…]
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include carouse, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, bounce.
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