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His best-known work remains “Lonesome Dove,” an epic novel about cowboys and cattle drives, grizzled Texas Rangers, frontier prostitutes, dexterous gamblers, odoriferous buffalo hunters and other roisterous denizens of the American West.

From Washington Post • Mar. 26, 2021

But Led Zeppelin tunes formed the backbone of the show, bringing out not only the most roisterous crowd response but also a higher order of plangency and presence from Mr. Plant.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2014

They will be keen to return to sweaty, roisterous Texas.

From The Guardian • Jun. 24, 2012

There never would have been the sort of roisterous hodgepodge of wide-open energy that America became.

From Time • Apr. 7, 2011

It preferred a dull existence of simple honesty to a roisterous feast on the brink of a moral and financial abyss.

From The Rise of the Dutch Kingdom 1795-1813 by Van Loon, Hendrik Willem