hell-roaring

And yet he still, on occasion, made one of his old-time hell-roaring nights.

Chapter XI 2010

To funeralize and to missionate, along with consociational, were contributions of the backwoods pulpit; perhaps it also produced hell-roaring and hellion, the latter of which was a favorite of the Mormons and even got into a sermon by Henry Ward Beecher.

Chapter 3. The Period of Growth. 3. The Expanding Vocabulary Henry Louis 1921

And yet he still, on occasion, made one of his old-time hell-roaring nights.

Chapter XI 1910

There's a come-back left in dad yet, and ... and if you or your hell-roaring old granddad think you can swallow the

Man to Man Jackson Gregory 1912

The marketing was not carried on with anything like the wild, rangy movement of our Stock Exchange, and the floor sent up no such hell-roaring (there is no other phrase for it) tumult as rises from the mad but not malign demons of that most dramatic representation of perdition.

Seven English Cities William Dean Howells 1878

To any of Adams’ own generation, those old enough to remember the hell-roaring days of the gold rush, the change was almost inconceivable.

The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

To any of Adams’ own generation, those old enough to remember the hell-roaring days of the gold rush, the change was almost inconceivable.

The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005

'cause when I wanted him to go around the edge of the crater with me, and see the hell-roaring free show from other points of view, and see where the hot ashes years ago rolled down and covered Pompeii and

Peck's Bad Boy Abroad Being a Humorous Description of the Bad Boy and His Dad in Their Journeys Through Foreign Lands - 1904 1878

I'm just a woman, Gershom, a little lonely and a little loony, and there's so much backed-up bad in me that once the dam gives way there'll be a hell-roaring old whoop-up along these dusty old trails! "

The Prairie Child Arthur Stringer 1912