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  • Holmes said little more, but the picture of the old roysterer seemed to have a fascination for him, and his eyes were continually fixed upon it during supper.

    The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars 2010

  • Save for a belated roysterer singing on his way homeward, and one or two nightbirds on the street below whose footfalls sounded fitfully, no whisper broke on the eerie night.

    Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease

  • It was not unusual in a land where hooch was cheap and stimulating and every drunken roysterer celebrated in the saddle, but there was an ominous, tragic suggestion in the irregularity of the hoof-beats as of an exhausted, failing beast urged on by grim and vital need.

    The Fifth Ace Douglas Grant

  • Mr. Kettridge, his eyes big with unconcealed wonder as he looked at the odd coin, was eager to accost Harry King at once and demand to know whence the roysterer had obtained it.

    The Diamond Cross Mystery Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story Chester K. Steele

  • Fortnoye is a roysterer, latterly occupied in extending the connection of a champagne-house at Épernay.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various

  • Holmes said little more, but the picture of the old roysterer seemed to have a fascination for him, and his eyes were continu - ally fixed upon it during supper.

    The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

  • Holmes said little more, but the picture of the old roysterer seemed to have a fascination for him, and his eyes were continu - ally fixed upon it during supper.

    The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

  • Holmes said little more, but the picture of the old roysterer seemed to have a fascination for him, and his eyes were continually fixed upon it during supper.

    The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

  • Holmes said little more, but the picture of the old roysterer seemed to have a fascination for him, and his eyes were continu - ally fixed upon it during supper.

    The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

  • Holmes said little more, but the picture of the old roysterer seemed to have a fascination for him, and his eyes were continually fixed upon it during supper.

    The Hound of the Baskervilles Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926

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