But it was easily within the bounds of fair play in a roisterous city campaign.

He had heard warnings on the radio about the potential for vandalism by roisterous fans.

The playground was roisterous with children, the air split by their laughs and shouts.

But once the lights come on, that curtain acts as a scrim, and behind it, a roisterous performance was in progress last week.

The depot was- almost completely dark, except for a few guard-lights: no roisterous common-room here.

His excitability and his roisterous enthusiasm made them laugh.

He is an expert at picking those among the crowd who might not have the means to hang about, but are potentially among the most roisterous.

It's a different restaurant, more Italian, with a more serious commitment to the food, but with the same high-volume, roisterous atmosphere.

When he spied a regular customer, he blurted out a roisterous greeting: "Hey, will you look at who's here!

Altogether, a convincing debut party for a cloistered collection that turns out to be more sophisticated, even a bit more roisterous than its quiet reputation.

Carhops rolling roisterous on roller stakes.

In November 1988, the most roisterous meeting of all took place in Clark Summit, Pa.

Several of the loafing roustabouts were buying roasted chestnuts from a poorly dressed woman who'd stationed herself outside the roisterous public house.

Her child moved just then, a roisterous turning that left her gasping for the breath that had been pushed from her lungs.

After a roisterous night, Monmouth announced his intention to march on to Bristol and take that important port, with all its wealth and resources.

A little less roisterous, perhaps, seeing that most of the men, tired after long days of marching and hours of carousing, had settled themselves down to sleep.

Inside the sole building to be graced with four walls, the yard's roisterous laborers gathered over trestles to eat supper, compare conquests, and shoot dice.

On the recent busy Thursday night we were there, however, the din from a roisterous crowd and pulsating music played at high volume gave this ambience a pounding.

Where "Nocturne" is a tryst, hushed and enchanting, "Cachaíto" is a party, roisterous and exhilarating.

The results were a roisterous, occasionally amateurish "Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Taming of the Shrew" produced on a budget of about $100 each.

As Mr. Ausfahl strummed his guitar, the roisterous kindergartners at Public School 114 in the Bronx lifted their faces in delight.

He has appeared on "Late Show" with David Letterman, "Good Morning America" and other shows, describing a roisterous campus lifestyle of beer and merrymaking.

Every January, during the storied Monte Carlo Rally, the Maritime Alps above the city echo with the roisterous sound of powerful vintage road racers.