How To Use Merry In A Sentence
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The old, merry Whiting looked sideways at Richard, then the round face assumed an expression of diffident humility for Mr. Hanks.
Morgan’s Run
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The school awarded Merry a prize .
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A Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year.
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The company says it “would be elated to have a personable, motivated self-starter such as yourself join our team of merry pornstars.”
Will Ferrell First Guest On “The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien”
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Then we played some games: we threw bean bags into targets for prizes and ran relays, spun hula hoops and played tic-tac-toe, fulfilling the mitzvah of laughing and being merry on Sukkot.
GLBT Families Come OUT to Decorate the Sukkah With GLOE « The Blog at 16th and Q
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And then we were so merry all the way home!
Pride and Prejudice
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Carlo lit a cigarette, and wishing the old woman a merry "addio" left and descended the stairs.
Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo
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So, have fun eating, drinking and being merry whether it's by a roaring fire or a slightly less picturesque roaring radiator.
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Do but assure me that I shall find you almost as merry as my Lady Anne Wentworth is always, and nothing shall fright me from my purpose of seeing you as soon as I can with any conveniency.
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
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Ah, what a world entire was this lost little hamlet of Paradise, where merrymakers trod on the mourners 'heels, where the scream of the biniou drowned the floating note of the passing bell, where Misery drew the curtains of her bed and lay sleepless, listening to Gayety dancing breathless to the patter of a coquette's wooden shoes!
The Maids of Paradise
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The Liverpudlian singer was looking rather queasy as he took a spin on the merry-go-round.
The Sun
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Somebody had text messaged me, ‘Merry Christmas,’ and that's when I got up.
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So Nur al-Din abode awhile, eating and drinking and making merry and bidding and forbidding those who tended the horses; and whoso neglected or failed to fodder those tied up in the stable wherein was his service, he would thrown down and beat with grievous beating and lay him by the legs in bilboes of iron.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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I've been in and out of jail and round in circles for years - desperately wanting to get off drugs but finding no way to get off the merry-go-round of smack, stealing and the nick.
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Now, what next on the managerial merry-go-round?
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I wish you a merry Christmas. All affection and best wishes to you and yours.
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It is, after all, the season to be merry and this will certainly put the required grin on your face.
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And, sure enough, there was Kennedy, with rueful face and a maudlin romaunt about a moonlit meeting with a swarm of painted Sioux, over which the stable guard were making merry and stirring the trooper's soul to wrath ungovernable.
A Daughter of the Sioux A Tale of the Indian frontier
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Dressed in traditional costume, this is an opportunity to show off their horses and horsemanship, to call on friends, to dance flamenco, to eat, drink and be merry.
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American music filled the room and the dance floor was packed with merrymakers.
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A wish for a truly merry Christmas and may the joy of Christmas linger in your heart all the year!
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So the merry-go-round of pseudo-debate will continue.
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Call it the urge to shake a leg or a penchant for merrymaking or an ideal mix of fun and entertainment.
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As usual making fun of myself so everyone can laugh and be merry.
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Professor Marjorie Merryman is currently the chair of the Music Department.
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And off we strolled, whistling merry Christmas tunes, and with only the very slightest of hops, skips and jumps in our step.
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The melody was at times slow and lilting, and other times fast-paced and merry.
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The pace picks up as the crew from the cursed ship starts an eerie song and the celebrating sailors try to counter with a merry drinking song of their own.
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Hello, Father! Merry Christmas!
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The electric rides in the second park too have their share of eager-beaver customers who giggle and scream through the train ride, the merry-go-round and the horse and the duck rides.
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We were in the rags of beggary, prideless in the dust, and yet I was laughing heartily at some mumbled merry quip of the Lady Om when a shadow fell upon us.
Chapter 15
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Starting in the '40s as a legman for Drew Pearson's Washington Merry-Go-Round column of gossip and scandal, Anderson had absolute faith in himself as a righteous scourge, even if he had to pay bribes and root through other people's garbage cans to get scoops.
The dirty dance between Anderson and Nixon
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If you happened to be patronising the inns of Kendal on Friday, you no doubt will have noticed a rather merry group of women dressed head-to-toe in pink.
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Aislinn laughed in obvious glee and the merrymaking continued until Wulfgar rose, clearing his throat for attention.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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Eat, drink, and be merry," he counselled lachrymosely, "for to-morrow we may be married.
Married Life The True Romance
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Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.
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Thousands of TV commercials go on their merry way, oblivious to dire circumstances outside the calculus of huckstering.
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Occasionally a merry-go-round train passes along the line.
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April has been a merry-go-round of a month, stuffed full with business, things to do and highs and lows of all kinds.
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I rose and was about to clap my hat upon my head and burst away, in wrathful indignation from the house; but recollecting — just in time to save my dignity — the folly of such a proceeding, and how it would only give my fair tormentors a merry laugh at my expense, for the sake of one I acknowledged in my own heart to be unworthy of the slightest sacrifice — though the ghost of my former reverence and love so hung about me still, that I could not bear to hear her name aspersed by others — I merely walked to the window, and having spent a few seconds in vengibly biting my lips and sternly repressing the passionate heavings of my chest, I observed to Miss
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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“Mony a dainty ane,” said Madge; “and blithely can I sing them, for lightsome sangs make merry gate.”
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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Now, a depressing injury and two years of highs, lows and managerial merry-go-rounds later, he contents himself with mere realities.
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They usually consisted of cast-iron swings, slides, seesaws, Junglegyms, giant-strides, and merry-go-rounds and sandboxes for young children.
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They sing to the timbrel and harp and make merry to the sound of the flute.
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Looking at the available rides, the four friends could see a large Ferris wheel, a colorful merry-go-round, funhouses, a popular roller coaster and many more.
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Alighting from a shuttle bus, the merry band of revellers spot a dosser lying prone and fully concealed under a blanket inside a bus shelter.
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She was humming a merry little tune.
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Dinner is usually a buffet or served family-style; at some dinners you'll be treated to live entertainment such as mellow folk songs or a merry hoedown.
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This arrangement also protected the husband; should he die, his merry widow could never marry her amico.
If He Has A Mistress, Why Can't She Have...A Mister?
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Few of us sit down every day, as they do across much of Europe, for a relaxing family meal that could take up to three hours of fun-filled banter and merrymaking to consume.
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How a bayonet from a German trench held up a placard with those magic words of good cheer that ever move the world -- "A Merry
The Sequel What the Great War will mean to Australia
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A realistic life-sized mouse may be seen in one place, just as if it had run out to inspect the work; and the numbers of little tipsy "putti" who disport themselves in all attitudes, in perilous positions on narrow ledges, are full of merry humour.
Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance
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Could they have seen our merry graduates, when the door was locked for the night, and the venerable wig was thrown aside, jollifying over their supper! could they have heard the peals of laughter caused by the unlooked-for success of the frolic, how would their cheeks have been covered with blushes!
Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside
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Merry and Pippin develop strongly, as they do in the book, but still hold their mirth and merriment.
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Dick remained the same frank merry fellow as ever; and even when there was a thick crop growing on his cheeks and chin, which he called brown mustard and cress, he was as full of boyish fun as ever.
Menhardoc
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The theoretic innovations of this thesis include the advance of the conception of grotesque merry-andrew and the analysis about it's functions and it's aesthetic contributions.
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In the middle of town was a tavern, where a merry troupe of Spandex-clad cyclists quaffed golden pilsners around a long picnic table.
Bohemian Rhapsody on Two Wheels
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Which said, the lady and her now partly reassured lover got them to bed, where for a great while they disported them right gamesomely, laughing together and making merry over the luckless scholar.
The Decameron, Volume II
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A fasting belly may never be merry.
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Merry meet, merry part.
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I'll be bitterly merry, and ironically gay , and I'll laught in derision!
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Merry Christmas and happy New Year!
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A Ferris wheel pokes above the palm trees in the affluent district of Zaitoona; at neighbourhood funfairs, parents usher their children on to the rides, slides and merry-go-rounds.
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There's the merry-go-round line for coal trains to Eggborough Power Station and a new spur line at Whitley Bridge for the wood-burning power plant.
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Miss Carpenter, as she separated long strands of raphia and initiated her pupils into the art of twisting and stitching, was almost as merry as Miss Pennington, whose infectious laugh, as she related James Mandeville's latest speeches, kept them all in a gale.
The Pleasant Street Partnership A Neighborhood Story
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The old king was now left with no other companion than the poor fool, who still abided with him, with his merry conceits striving to outjest misfortune, saying it was but a naughty night to swim in, and truly the king had better go in and ask his daughter's blessing: --
Tales from Shakespeare
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Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.
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This last mentioned person had been bred with an apothecary, and sometimes travelled the country in the high capacity of a quack doctor, at others, in the more humble station of a merry-andrew.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
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Here is wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a New Year bright with joy and success.
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In 1992, Joyce was one of the Arkansas Travelers, a merry band of activists who drove around the country in rented vans to support Bill Clinton's presidential campaign.
As midterm nears, Democratic activist sees fewer friendly faces in Arkansas
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The bus goes off on its merry way and picks up a zillion passengers at the next stop.
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The auditory ease of the merry mockeries of maidens is abruptly undermined by the trochaic retarding of the ‘sharp voices’ insisting on ‘maiden labour.’
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‘The funfair has bouncy castles, merry-go-rounds and swings which are providing facilities for play and social interaction for children,’ she said.
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One of the company added, "A merry-andrew, a buffoon.
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886
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make merry
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These ‘sandboys’ were paid partly in ale, and were usually half-cut or merry: hence ‘happy’.
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The managerial merry-go-round just keeps on spinning.
The Sun
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Certainly it was all very merry, convivial and informal.
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More ceilidh dancing, drinking and merrymaking.
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His recollection is you had been to some sort of do in the afternoon or early evening, and you were quite merry.
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As she walked now, she looked at the empty swings, the empty merry-go-round, the empty slide.
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They moved some dirt around, dropped a few seeds here and there, and jubilated as Michelle led the merry band.
The Obama Diaries
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In the Spring all things are happy; gayness and laughing once again descend upon the land and men make merry and dance.
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Children and fools have merry lives.
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A merry heart goes all the way.
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Cheney and his pack of merry men spent 8 years destroying the economy, invading other countries under false pretences and just plain screwing up.
Cheney named Conservative of the Year
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Lord of Warwick; but he was gone to the king's, and hearing of the merry-makings here, I came hither for kill-time.
The Last of the Barons — Volume 01
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The Merry Mex and his entourage had been billeted in Yester House and, out of deference to the American visitors, the newly installed central heating had been turned up full blast.
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Come and join in the merrymaking.
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October 8, 2009 at 3:49 am that b sumfing u merry kans are moar lucky than us central yurupeens.
Dis veggee - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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Undoubtedly the launch of the musical in Melbourne this weekend will be a real gas, and how could it not be given its origins and stellar cast and Brooks here to send it on its merry way.
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Be always as merry as ever you can, for no-one delights in a sorrowful man.
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In her other blog, The Merry Scribbler, PrairieMary has some good things to say about the "architectonics" of writing-- and it is NOT pretentious.
Writing-- the Continuing Series
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Posing in a variety of eye-catching designer ensembles, the 24-year-old flame-haired Lancashire lass scoffs a bag of chips on the prom, rides a merry-go-round and makes sandcastles on the beach.
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Upon his part Gascoyne was full of the lore of the waiting-room and the antechamber, and Myles, who in all his life had never known a lady, young or old, excepting his mother, was never tired of lying silently listening to Gascoyne's chatter of the gay doings of the castle gentle-life, in which he had taken part so often in the merry days of his pagehood.
Men of Iron
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a merry evening
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Rohan Merry, who was driving the car, said he heard his friend yell in pain and turned to his side to see blood pouring from Andrew's head.
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He ended his speech with a merry quip.
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A merry heart goes all the way.
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After "Merry Wives" come parts one and two of "Henry IV," Aug. 1 and 18, respectively, and "Henry VIII" on Sept. 15.
The Short List
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And Hall, usually so merry, could outfoot them all when he once got started on the cosmic pathos of religion and the gibbering anthropomorphisms of those who loved not to die.
CHAPTER IX
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Tinatamad nga lan kong magblog at gumawa ng layout kaya MERRY CHRISTMAS pa rin tong layout ko. .aahh ... wadeber ...
Archive 2007-03-01
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She had always been in a frolic of some sort, when I had known her in Davos, whither she had gone because she thought it would be "what you call a lark"; and she was in a frolic now, judging by her merry laughter when she saw me.
The Princess Passes
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While our brothers and sisters in Aceh were experiencing a great calamity, some of us were indulging in convivial merrymaking at luxury hotels on New Year's Eve.
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And they came to the beautiful house and made merry, played "guessing words" -- what we call charades, quite a new thing then -- and it made no end of merriment.
A Little Girl in Old Salem
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Mr Bennett recalled a storeman named Mitchell, described in a book by James Merryweather.
Archive 2008-06-01
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She heard merry-go-round calliopes and Silent Night.
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Maritimo have been giving the managerial merry-go-round a vigorous whirl of late.
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And at last our businesses being most spent, we into Mrs. Mercer's, and there mighty merry, smutting one another with candle grease and soot, till most of us were like devils.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S.
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Nozomi will bear no grudge; for it detracts from his happiness and capacity for merrymaking.
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Children and fools have merry lives.
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Thou hast been trained from thy post by some deep guile — some well-devised stratagem — the cry of some distressed maiden has caught thine ear, or the laughful look of some merry one has taken thine eye.
The Talisman
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(for his family is one that stands in very good repute all over that country), entertained him here and there at their Christmas merrymakings, so that he was constantly riding to and fro, from one house to another, and sometimes, when the place of his destination was distant, or for other reason, as the unsafeness of the roads, he would be constrained to lie the night at an inn.
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories
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Given a decent education, a fair fortune, a good-looking and vigorous husband to whom she had taken a fancy, and no special temptation, and she might have been a blameless, merry, "sonsy" _commere_, and have died in an odor of very reasonable sanctity.
The Celibates
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Christmas is a time to eat, drink and make merry.
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Handel makes delicious use of a carillon in the soprano aria ‘Or let the merry bells ring round’.
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I want to enjoy my existence on this earth, be happy and make merry.
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I had rather have a fool make me merry, than experience make me sad. William Shakespeare
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It's a merry, moving, wise play, compellingly revived by the repertory.
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Boromir dies trying to stop a band of orcs from kidnapping Merry and Pippin.
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After her astounding success with The Merry Widow, Elsie performed in sixteen more musical comedies, including The Dollar Princess in 1909; as “Franzi” in A Waltz Dream; and as “Angèle” in The Count of Luxembourg, both in 1911.
Cocotte of the Week: Lily Elsie | Edwardian Promenade
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So, under the protection of Providence, and the mercy of footpads, I trust we shall meet again to-morrow; at all events, there is nothing huffish in this; for, whether sad or merry, I am always,
Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02
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Passion, talent and genuine desire to make a difference inspire many but on the consumerist merry-go-round some of us ride, success is often equated with a fat pay cheque.
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The hours of merrymaking and celebration had stretched late the night before, and she suspected there would be more than one person who took carris seed before the ceremony.
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Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.
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Starting up the machine would play the music, and it would sound like a merry-go-round at an amusement park.
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Merry is he that hath nought to lose.
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Merry Christmas and a heathy and Happy New Year to our beautiful new First Family.
Christmastime at the White House
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Behaving like wiry, wired adolescents on a merry spree, this extrovert community breathes fresh air into the mechanics of daily existence.
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Here was the genuine article -- no, not the genuine article at all, we must go to Africa for that -- but the sort of creatures generations of slavery have made them: obsequious, trickish, lazy and ignorant, yet kind-hearted, merry-tempered, quick to feel and accept the least token of the brotherly love which is slowly teaching the white hand to grasp the black, in this great struggle for the liberty of both the races.
Hospital Sketches
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Glancing up she quickly scanned the merry faces, looking for one with light skin and fair hair.
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Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast. William Shakespeare
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Merry is he that hath nought to lose.
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I suspect he really wants to say that on the eternal merry-go-round of economic models, no economic theory has a true proponent, that ‘real economists are not proponents of any theory’.
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Joan Merryweather told the meeting that she was constantly being asked if the old York and District Pensioners' Association would be re-formed.
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Yet I am genuinely sorry to leave our merry band.
Times, Sunday Times
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As soon as the rest of the company was assembled, he set meat and drink before them and, when they had well eaten and drunken and were merry and in cheerful case, he took up his discourse and recounted to them in these words the narrative of
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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He exhorted all the guests to be in honour, gleesome, and merry, and requested leave to join the dancers, which was not refused him.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844
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On the first of May every year, the villagers would make merry in the village, dancing, singing and drinking.
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Without context we end up on a merry-go-round of activity and movement that never seems to get us to where we want to be.
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The joy of the heart makes the face merry.
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Their story plays like some merry old folk tale, about a few lads off on a summertime lark that turned into a life-transforming adventure.
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It's Brazil biggest-ever heist, and easily tops the modest £30m in today's wonga with which the Great Train Robbers temporarily made merry back in 1963.
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I think I heard something like a squeaky playground merry-go-round in the background, or maybe it was a squeaky gate door.
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Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.
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Bloom lights the orchard-appleAnd thicket and thorp are merry
May is Mary's Month
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Then, when he was tired of the merry-making, he put that tape into the VCR and made a huge commotion that everyone should get home where they'd be safe.
Tom Matlack: Memories of Dad at Christmas
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Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.
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Watching George McGovern hop on the presidential merry - go - round again makes you wonder what makes them run.
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Those that are most merry and jovial are commonly, when they come to be in distress, most overwhelmed with heaviness and sorrow; their laughter is then turned into mourning.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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But no! Instead of surrendering tamely the inspired madmen in the cars ran amok and played a merry game of follow-my-leader up and down and round and through the ranks of the enemy, until they had fired off most of their ammunition.
With Our Army in Palestine
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Here is wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a New Year bright with joy and success.
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Now the former chairman of Merrybent parish council has written about his struggle against heart disease in a medical journal.
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It's a gran 'thing to ken a lassie like yon, an' a gran'er thing yet to be allooed to lo'e her: to sit down an 'greit 'cause I'm no to merry her, wad be most oongratefu'!
Donal Grant, by George MacDonald
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This could lead to a merry-go-round situation where difficult pupils are moved from one school to the next.
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A wish for a truly merry Christmas and may the joy of Christmas linger in your heart all the year!
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And so to bed, now feeling much less merry.
Times, Sunday Times
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A Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year.
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A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance.
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Falling pub attendances will hit sales of Merrydown's newest brand, Premium Draught Cider.
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Merry Christmas, Yanks: Braves gift-wrap Vazquez for Cabrera was the previous entry in this blog.
Power-hungry Braves to give Troy Glaus a try - sports
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With our best youlldied greedings to Pep and Memmy and the old folkers below and beyant, wishing them all very merry Incar-nations in this land of the livvey and plenty of preprosperousness through their coming new yonks from jake, jack and little sousoucie
Finnegans Wake
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She fled to Merryon in horror, and he and the _khitmutgar_ slew the creature.
The Safety Curtain, and Other Stories
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Shakespeare refers to canary wine in Twelfth Night and The Merry Wives of Windsor.
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To Merry the ascent seemed agelong, a meaningless journey in a hateful dream, going on and on to some dim ending that memory cannot seize.
The Lord of the Rings
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Halfway through the season and the managerial merry-go-round is in full swing.
The Sun
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'Twas in the summer of '46 that I landed at Hamilton, fresh as a new pratie just dug from the "old sod," and wid a light heart and a heavy bundle I sot off for the township of Buford, tiding a taste of a song, as merry a young fellow as iver took the road.
The Canadian Elocutionist
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It appeared the boys had got themselves relatively merry before walking home along the pebbled beach.
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The joy of the heart makes the face merry.
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Marie's subsequent rendezvous with her husband to discuss the ransom money is quite absurdist, occurring on a very crowded street near a poissonnerie and a merry-go-round.
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Merry Christmas, Yanks: Braves gift-wrap Vazquez for Cabrera is the next entry in this blog.
Falcons' hopes thaw for back-to-back winning seasons - sports
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Each card will bear the specially franked message ‘Merry X'mas & Happy New Year’.
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Some make merry with the minutiae of our short lives.
Times, Sunday Times
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A wish for a truly merry Christmas and may the joy of Christmas linger in your heart all the year!
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So Nur al-Din abode awhile, eating and drinking and making merry and bidding and forbidding those who tended the horses; and whoso neglected or failed to fodder those tied up in the stable wherein was his service, he would thrown down and beat with grievous beating and lay him by the legs in bilboes of iron.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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If there were dreams to sell, Merry and sad to tell, And the crier rang the bell, What would you buy?
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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I wish you a merry Christmas. All affection and best wishes to you and yours.
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While I've passed many a merry hour in fair Iraq, my peripateticism there has been limited to its terrestrial surfaces.
Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates
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The novel I'd dreamed of for years, the one set in the merry, sinister woods of fairytale and midsummer, was there, waiting for me.
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Pipe a song about a Lamb!' / So I piped with merry cheer. William Blake
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They have imported Brown Ale, Pale Ale, Porter, Winter Ale which I call Yule Beer or Merry Christmas, or God Jul, and Imperial Stout.
The chicks have left the nest.
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We were trying to throw the poles aside while whistling a merry tune.
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Peals of laughter and merrymaking yelled out through the wood door.
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She sat thus for a long period, her meditations adrift in the future; and that which she foreread left her nor all sorry nor profoundly glad, for living seemed by this, though scarcely the merry and colorful business which she had esteemed it, yet immeasurably the more worth while.
Chivalry
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It is good to be merry at meal.
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While you're having yourself a merry little Christmas, one of the songs you might often hear is a recent classic, a song whose author waited 20 years for the right student to put his music to words.
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Your auntie is going over to Merrybrow Hall to-morrow to inquire about this little Master Phil from my Lady Lavander, for we think it's at one of her ladyship's farms that he and his nurse are staying, and if she hears that he's a nice-mannered little gentleman, and comes of good parents – why, missie, there's no saying but that you'll get leave to play with him as much as you like.
The Cuckoo Clock
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The fire crackled and, beside it, rum punch simmered with promise of a merry Occasion.
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Kind-hearted but rough-mannered youths, who loved Merry very much, but teased her sadly about her "fine lady airs," as they called her dainty ways and love of beauty.
Jack And Jill
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Howsoever the best way is to contemn it, which [6214] Henry II. king of France advised a courtier of his, jealous of his wife, and complaining of her unchasteness, to reject it, and comfort himself; for he that suspects his wife's incontinency, and fears the Pope's curse, shall never live a merry hour, or sleep a quiet night: no remedy but patience.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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There were lots of fun and games for both children and adults from the coconut shy and the death slide to a merry-go-round and a bouncy castle.
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He was tired of the merry-go-round of romance and longed to settle down.
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But now at last has Christmas come, And little Jack, who beats the drum, Cries round the hamlet, with his beaming face: "Come brisken up, you maidens fair, A merry busking [4] shall take place On Friday, first night of the year!
Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist
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Merry Christmas to you all and all the best for a fantastic festive season with friends and loved ones!
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Everyone was getting quite merry, and the glasses were being passed about.
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A merry heart goes all the way.
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It goes without saying that he loved “his great namesake,” as he calls him, “Robert Burton, of melancholy and merry, of facete and juvenile memory.”
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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It affords endless amusement to listen to their endless variety of complaint; some are restless, some spiteful, and some angry, while others sound as merrily as a teakettle, or beat a jolly 'rub-a-dub,' 'rataplan,' that makes a man's soul merry to hear.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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So here's to the hopeful prospect that the Hill conservatives let in the Spirit of Christmas Present, hoping for some merry-making.
Karen Dolan: Conservatives' Vile Attack On Christmas
