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Sentences starting with merry

Merry Xmas to you from us all. [5]
Merry groups were gathered on the corners, songs and laughter mingled in the court-yards, billiard balls clicked in the cabarets. [9]
Merry Xmas, my darling, and all my darlings! [5]
Merry cobblers were calling out to the passers-by from their stalls; carpenters, tailors, joiners and weavers--were all there, busy at their various callings. [10]
Merry faces looked back and nodded, and in a moment they were gone. [11]
Merry too. [12]

Sentences ending with merry

Let us have your story, and be merry. [9]
These were filled with people of all sorts and conditions, supping and making merry. [9]
There are some people who can be merry and can't be wise, and some who can be wise (or think they can) and can't be merry. [12]
The lieutenant was looking about in his usual way and suddenly seemed to grow very merry. [2]
So I had learned to interpret her by other means than words, and now her mood seemed reckless rather than merry. [9]
At last: "Bien," he said, "you are merry. [11]

Sentences containing merry two or more times

When I am merry and mad, Merry and mad be you; When I am sober and sad, Be sad and sober too! [10]
The almoner listened incredulously, for in his youth the Emperor Charles had joined in the wildest songs of the soldiery, and had well understood, on certain occasions, how to be merry with the merry, laugh and carouse in a Flemish tavern. [10]

More example sentences with the word merry in them

Some of them young folks is very artful,--said her mother,--and there is them that would merry Lazarus, if he'd only picked up crumbs enough. [6]
A merry soldier's-cook wore a captain's plume on the side of his tall hat. [10]
While the neat-handed woman worked busily and carefully many merry jests passed between them--many sincere and hearty words of admiration--and before long Arsinoe had become quite excited and took pleased interest in the needle-woman's labors. [10]
As for their wives, Mrs. Joshua was a merry, brown-eyed little lady already inclining to stoutness, and Honora felt at home with her at once. [9]
Some fifteen men with merry shouts were shaking down the high wattle wall of a shed, the roof of which had already been removed. [2]
Amasis laughed heartily with his friends at Gyges' artifice, allowed the young heroes to mix freely with his family, and behaved towards them himself as a jovial father towards his merry sons. [10]
Polly Ann replied, with a merry peal of laughter, "You are both jealous of Tom--both of you. [9]
He inquired also with a merry countenance after the piece of ordnance that Smith had promised to send him, and Smith, with equal jocularity, replied that he had offered the men four demi-culverins, which they found too heavy to carry. [4]
Several young courtiers who were walking in front of their chariots, surrounded them and joined in the laughter and merry conversation, in which the vivacious wife of the chief priest shared, having left her large travelling-chariot to be carried in a litter. [10]
The merry party, who now perceived that they had interrupted the nocturnal tryst of lovers, did not instantly know what to do and, as one looked enquiringly at another, an embarrassed silence followed their noisy jollity. [10]
The little tug, which was pretty well packed with the merry company, was swift, and danced along in an exhilarating manner. [4]
During study hours we were serious, but in the intervals we were merry enough. [10]
You recall that we were at supper together, with Betty Tayloe and Lord Comyn, and how merry we were, altho' 'twas nothing but 'Dorothy' with you gentlemen. [9]
The merry man was the first to greet the strangers with a nod; and following the old man's eyes, he observed that perhaps that was the first time he had ever seen a Punch off the stage. [12]
When the likeness was no more than half done, he painted his own merry face to the falcon on my wrist gazing up at me with silly languor. [10]
Old King Cole was himself a merry old soul, if we may put any faith in the pages of history. [12]
By night, it was again a sight to see, with its great bonfires at every corner, and its troops of revellers making merry around them. [5]
Besides, the blustering war of tongues had reached a merry close, and loud laughter blended with the shouts of fear and warning; for the surging throng had swept with unexpected speed towards the fountain and plunged Philostratus into the basin. [10]
The officer, a very young lad with a broad rosy face and keen merry eyes, galloped up to Denisov and handed him a sodden envelope. [2]
And presently, "She's very merry, I'll warrant. [9]
It was at Venice, where I was pursuing my studies, and tried my luck at gambling on many a merry evening with other sons of mercantile families from Nuremberg, Augsburg, and Cologne. [10]
As I climbed up to my rooms in Dover Street, I heard merry sounds above, and a cloud of smoke blew out of the door when I opened it. [9]
There is nothing unusual in the fellow's dress; he wears a shiny silk hat, and has one of those grave faces which would be merry if their owner were not conscious of serious business on hand. [4]
While anxiety and trouble were brooding over the steward's dwelling, while dismay and disappointment were clouding the souls of its inhabitants, the hall of the Muses was merry with feasting and laughter. [10]
When we all took leave my grand-uncle bid Herdegen stay, and Kunz waited on us; but notwithstanding all his merry quips as we went home, not once could we be moved to laughter. [10]
From politeness and to start conversation, they asked him a few questions about the army and the battle, and then the talk went off into merry jests and gossip. [2]
Bob had managed to shift the subject from Jethro, not without an effort, though he had done it in that merry, careless manner which was so characteristic of him. [9]
The only wonder to me is that I can still be merry at all; nor am I, except in your house, and not there even but when I forget him altogether. [10]
Nitetis soon began to look upon the blind queen as a beloved and loving mother, and the merry, spirited Atossa nearly made up to her for the loss of her sister Tachot, so far away on the distant Nile. [10]
We stood still to listen till the merry fellow, who had no idea that we were by, was silent again; and then hearing the architect's voice, he called to him over the screen. [10]
Barbara said this to her husband when he wished to check the merry laughter of the little ones, and then went to her chamber. [10]
We have had to bow more than once already to the strength of which you boast--but now, at a merry feast, we will not think of that, but rather continue the conversation which entertained us, and which had begun so well. [10]
While she was thus engaged, the merry little man looked at her with an interest which did not appear to be diminished when he glanced at her helpless companion. [12]
I liked not this fashion of speech, and when he saw that I was ill-pleased and grieved, instead of falling in with his merry mood, he took up a more earnest vein and said: "Never mind, Margery. [10]
How merry were these banquets, at which usually several teachers were welcome guests! [10]
And they made themselves very merry over the matter. [5]
They, "and also their wives, began to make themselves merry, insomuch that they began to dance, and to sing, and to speak with much rudeness; yea, they were lifted up unto exceeding rudeness. [5]
Why she was the wife of Alexander the Great, and is long since dead, but I care only for the living, and when I left the merry tumult in the streets it was simply and solely--" "You excite my curiosity. [10]
It was on the whole a merry journey, the first part of it, if a rough one. [9]
One day as the sun went down, they came to the cave in the Mount of Pion, and they said, each to his fellow, Let us sleep here, and go and feast and make merry with our friends when the morning cometh. [5]
Directly after, with the package under her arm, she wished the men a merry drinking bout, and added that poor Ursel might need her. [10]
Nay, even in the midst of the silent dwelling of the speechless Sisters, right merry laughter might be heard during the hours of rest, and in spite of the thick walls of the class-room it reached the nuns' ears. [10]
For one of the merry cotillions before supper Prince Andrew was again her partner. [2]
She had spied the Duncans and the Worthingtons making merry by themselves at a corner table, and it was Somers's laugh that she heard. [9]
Had he considered the consequences of his act, he would still be merry Heinz. [10]
At Wolf's entrance the baron greeted him with merry banter, and then whispered to him that the regent was expecting him in her private room, where the leaders of the newly arrived musicians had already gone. [10]
It is reported that I was an unusually sturdy, merry little fellow. [10]
Wolf's eyes showed that he was pleased with Barbara's merry lads, and she thanked him for it by the warmest reception. [10]
They've just been telling your lord that a royal marten has been making merry in your dove-cote. [10]
Thus there were sore half-hours for him in school-time; but he was not therefor to be pitied, for he had a right merry soul and was easily content, and loved many things. [10]
The merry feast soon became a wild orgy; loud cries of Evoe, and tumultuous singing reached the ears of the Magians, who had once more settled down to calculations and discussions over their rolls and tablets. [10]
They were still so seated when Cynthia perceived coming toward them through the crowded dining roam a merry, middle-aged gentleman with a bald head. [9]
The sight was so merry that I was fain to laugh. [10]
With a merry, smiling face Pierre was sorting his purchases. [2]
Where was the smile that was wont to twinkle in his merry eye like the sparkle of a diamond and to play saucily about his lips--where the unwrinkled serenity of his brow and the defiantly audacious demeanor of his whole handsome person? [10]
Well-good-bye, and a short life and a merry one be yours. [5]
And, even then, she never thought or spoke about him, but with something of her old, clear, merry laugh. [12]
Mademoiselle Bourienne also shared them and even Princess Mary felt herself pleasantly made to share in these merry reminiscences. [2]
There now..." Merry senseless words of abuse flowed freely. [2]
These merry mortals seemed to lull themselves carelessly in the secure enjoyment of peace and prosperity, and how blue the sky was, how warmly and brightly the sun shone! [10]
Every word she says sounds like music, and though she speaks so gravely and wisely it's as pleasant to the ear as a merry joke. [10]
From the dancing room, they still heard the laughter and merry voices trying to persuade Natasha to sing. [2]
Not until Eva released her did Els exclaim in merry amazement: "So it was delightful, my darling? [10]
And these he rehearsed in such merry spirit and new guise that we scarce recognized them, and Colonel Lloyd so choked with laughter that more than once he had to be hit between the shoulders. [9]
Each one was ready to be taught by lips so sweet, and in guiding of fingers and words of praise or blame, there was right merry laughing and chatter and pastime. [10]
Kunz likewise had quitted school, and he could not complain that learning weighed too heavily on his light heart and merry spirit. [10]
It was a pleasant, friendly, sociable herd; pious, happy, merry and full of unconscious coarsenesses and innocent indecencies. [5]
I can still play and be merry with Fay. [13]
Take these gold pieces and in the flower-market buy with one of them the most beautiful bunch of flowers you can find, with another you may make merry, and out of the remainder spend a drachma in hiring an ass. [10]
Denisov smiled, and Petya burst into a peal of merry laughter in which Tikhon himself joined. [2]
I remember that people were gathered in the streets as we passed, making merry, and that they greeted Mr. Lowndes with respect and good cheer. [9]
Thy cheek is pale, and thy eyes are heavy with watching and weeping for me--I know--for me; but thou wilt be well again, and merry too, when we are far away. [12]
We all constituted ourselves a guard of honor to Miss Forsythe and Margaret when they went to their cottage, and there was a merry leave-taking in the moonlight. [4]
He, like the other guests, made friends with the strangers, and in his merry fashion he bid the older bear leader tell our fortunes by our hands, while the young ones should dance. [10]
And there were other clamors--the clatter of rushing feet, merry congratulations, bursts of coarse laughter, the rolling of drums, the boom and crash of distant bands profaning the sacred day with the music of victory and thanksgiving. [5]
He yielded in order not to grieve her, and, as he became more cheerful and even joined in her merry laugh, Xanthe rejoiced as if she had released him from his sorrow. [10]
If you're happy or merry ever, you come here to say, along with that chap, that you're sorry for it. [12]
Rostov and Ilyin, on entering the room, were welcomed with merry shouts and laughter. [2]
Several adjutants galloped off, and an hour later, Lavrushka, the serf Denisov had handed over to Rostov, rode up to Napoleon in an orderly's jacket and on a French cavalry saddle, with a merry, and tipsy face. [2]
But all men of worship said it was merry to be under such a chieftain that would put his person in adventure as other poor knights did. [5]
A little frown of trouble came to her forehead, but she drove it away with a merry laugh, as he turned at the rustle of her skirts and came forward. [11]
But in spite of them all he contrived to get Patty for supper, when I took Betty Tayloe, and we were very merry at table together. [9]
But the bulk of the poor gentlemen were a merry crew withal, and had their wit and their wine at table, and knew each other's histories (and soon enough ours) by heart. [9]
By the magic of the new and nobler influences the sterile spaces were transformed into wooded parks, the merry electric car replaced the melancholy 'bus, smooth concrete the tempestuous plank sidewalk, the macadamised road the primitive corduroy, et cetera. [5]
These recollections being of a kind calculated to cast a shadow on the brightness of the holiday, Kit diverted the conversation to general topics, and they were soon in great force again, and as merry as before. [12]
They were merry now; but Jane had seen them when they were not, and then she feared him as she had feared her father. [13]
Believe it or not, I composed the merry little thing when in great sorrow and poverty, just to warm my heart. [10]
With a laugh not quite so merry, Sheila raised her mug and slowly drained the green happiness away. [11]
Prince Vasili was not having any supper: he went round the table in a merry mood, sitting down now by one, now by another, of the guests. [2]
He understood human nature; he knew that a jest is often much harder to bear than a grave affront, and therefore seized this opportunity to repeat the inconsiderate joke which Amasis had, it is true, allowed himself to make in one of his merry moods. [10]
And now farewell, my young heroes, till we meet again this evening over a merry wine-cup. [10]
And at this my heart quaked for fear, in despite of the hunting-sports, and of many a right merry supper; and Aunt Jacoba was no better. [10]
We went instead, Mr. Fox and I, to Ampthill, Lord Ossory's seat, with a merry troop. [9]
Daily he grew more gentle and kind, and gradually developed a quaintly merry mood. [13]
They are already merry, and it must be getting late. [10]
You can be merry under any circumstances. [12]
So--I shall be merry too, for I have scores to wipe away, and they shall be wiped clean-- clean. [11]
We shall be merry to-day, and you shall have some of the best Madeira in the colonies. [9]
Laugh and be merry to your heart's content; I am glad you should. [10]
Those who made merry there were soon to be driven and scattered before the winds of war; to die at Wilson's Creek, or Shiloh, or to be spared for heroes of the Wilderness. [9]

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