Word Finder - merry

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Jolly and full of high spirits.

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We had a very merry Christmas.

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Festive and full of fun and laughter.

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Everyone was merry at the party.

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Brisk

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The play moved along at a merry pace.

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Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight.

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a merry jest

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Drunk; tipsy

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Some of us got a little merry at the office Christmas party.

He laughed at that, and his laugh was merry and frank.

Merry senseless words of abuse flowed freely.

Next morning it was I who waked the whole family with my first "Merry Christmas!"

With a merry, smiling face Pierre was sorting his purchases.

From a campfire a hundred paces off came a sound of general, merry laughter.

I wish you all the best & a merry Christmas.

He felt it in the merry sounds of regimental music he heard from the left side of the field, and felt and realized it especially from the list of prisoners the French officer had read out when he came that morning.

Some more! a merry voice was saying in his soul.

In the light of the coming kingdom it proclaims the blessedness of the poor, the hungry, the sad and the maligned; and the wofulness of the rich, the full, the merry and the popular.

I thought I'd call and wish you a Merry Christmas.

Soldiers scattered over the whole place were dragging logs and brushwood and were building shelters with merry chatter and laughter; around the fires sat others, dressed and undressed, drying their shirts and leg bands or mending boots or overcoats and crowding round the boilers and porridge cookers.

While still at a distance he heard as he rode the merry sounds of a soldier's dance song proceeding from the house.

This accounts for the description of aurora as " Merry Dancers."

They had merry go rounds to sit on and swings and see saws.

Her greatest charm was, however, her pleasant behaviour; for she was "merry in company, ready and quick of answer."

Hope you enjoy it, have a great new year, and have yourself a merry little Christmas.. .

Even getting a bit merry, not to mention totally tanked, was considered impolite.

A peal of merry laughter answered her, and the knives and forks fell to the plates with a clatter.

The three voices, hers, Mademoiselle Bourienne's, and Katie's, who was laughing at something, mingled in a merry sound, like the chirping of birds.

Eowyn sneaks into battle wearing a disguise and carries Merry the Hobbit with her.

Both his name and his exploits remind us of the woodland spirit Robin Goodfellow and his merry pranks.

A merry birthday was had, with congrats to Ken!

Now they leaped up as one, and danced a merry jig.

I'm chiefly sad, my lord, your queen's not merry.

Hope your looking after the Arbroath top that was bid for by a group of rather merry gents at the recent succesful Sportsmans Dinner.

I don't make merry myself at Christmas and I can't afford to make idle people merry.

He made merry in the day of Jacob's captivity.

Long's position was generally confirmed by Leslie Thomson's description of the Folger's Two merry milkmaids (1620 ).

November 20 th 1918 Bells rang out a merry peal on news of the end of hostilities with Germany at Foxearth.

He lived in Windsor with his merry wives, writing tragedies, comedies and errors, all in Islamic pentameter.

The Frenchman emitted a merry, sanguine chuckle, patting Pierre on the shoulder.

With the naive conviction of young men in a merry mood that other men's wives were created for them, Rostov did not leave the lady's side and treated her husband in a friendly and conspiratorial style, as if, without speaking of it, they knew how capitally Nicholas and the lady would get on together.

Some of the bass tabs available include I Want You, Jailhouse Rock, Livewire, Merry Go Round, Rattlesnake Shake and many more.

Merry and Pippin have their own adventures meeting the Ents.

Grouped around their belfry-towers and organized within their gilds, they made merry in their free jocular language over their own hardships, and still more over the vices of their lords.

Gone were the happy smiles, silent were the merry quips.

There is no longer a merry bunch of men in white spacesuits in my room.

I would haue staid till I had made you merry, If worthier friends had not preuented me Ant.

Seriously cold outside so had to have another stout or two before sprinting underdressed, freezing but merry back to the Randolph.

There was the merry throng laughing, gamboling, working at top speed.

Do not sway to the music, tap your feet or whistle a merry tune.

We ate, we drank, and we were merry, And we got typhoid and dysentery.

Seeing Merry always makes me feel more urgent about planning and executing our home ed.

We wish all the EDP walkers and readers a very merry Christmas.

First came Marya Dmitrievna and the count, both with merry countenances.

Then came some merry soldiers who had evidently been drinking.

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.

Mademoiselle Bourienne also shared them and even Princess Mary felt herself pleasantly made to share in these merry reminiscences.

For one of the merry cotillions before supper Prince Andrew was again her partner.

It really was Melyukovka, and maids and footmen with merry faces came running, out to the porch carrying candles.