The most curious feature of the Mohurrum celebration is the roystering and brawling of the Tolis or street-bands which takes places for two or three nights after the fifth day of the month.

The festive laugh of its editors especially that of the roystering Lothario OLIVER DYER,is but seldom heard, now, in the famed restaurant of MOUQUIN.

My cousin James, a roystering boy of fourteen, was not yet old enough to be covetous, and he and I were soon friends.

The dean of the Institute managed, amid the roystering and the intervals of attention, to set things up for the week.

There the glutton, and here the sot; now the eye fell on the mean pander or the roystering boon-companion; now on the wit, looking with a roguish leer upon his fair neighbour, or the miserable wretch maudlin in his cups; and again on the knave profiting by the recklessness of those around him.

The low comedy in both pieces might well have come from the same hand, though Dick Bowyer is certainly more amusing than the roystering companions in the Blind Beggar.

Altogether he was as roystering and swaggering a young gentleman as ever stood four feet six in his bluchers.

I don't know why they called you after roystering Kit.

There are a couple of roystering Burschen in the public room, who, I think, would enjoy the office.

Roystering students swung arm in arm in eccentric dance from side to side across the street.

As he entered the house, a lively strain of music caught his ear, and glancing in the direction of the sound, he found it proceeded from the blind piper, Mike Macascree, who was playing to some half-dozen roystering youths.

Bending our steps toward the Palace, (it is yet early, and few loiterers are abroad in the leafy avenues,) we observe a group of three persons, not at all distinguished in their appearance, having a roystering good time in the Imperial Garden.

What with roystering fellows and smooth-tongued gallants, and with silly, empty-headed hussies like that Giulietta, one has much ado to keep the best of them straight.

The roystering West Wind flies to greet her, And bids her haste, with a gleeful shout: The quickening Saplings bend to meet her, And the first green Grass-blades call, "Come out!"

The saints know it isn't for my happiness to put her out of my old arms; but I can't last forever,my old back grows weaker every year; and Antonio has strong arms to defend her from all these roystering fellows who fear neither God nor man, and swoop up young maids as kites do chickens.

Here Christian waited for them with the horses, and they came presently, the bishop wearing a great slouched hat, and swaggering like a roystering trooper, while Osra was closely veiled.

These papers were full of a profuse, headlong eloquence, of humor, literary criticism, and personalities interspersed with songs expressive of a roystering and convivial Toryism and an uproarious contempt for Whigs and cockneys.

There is something jovial and roystering about an ancient tavern; but we must keep a sharp lookout for Mrs. Schallibaum.

Accordingly he gave this pair of roystering troopers a plentiful dinner and a taste of aguardiente.