What are the sentence for merriment?

Answer 1

Going to resolve itself into the merriment of a general resolution the main character repudiates the very principle of happiness itself.

* "Four or five people turn around to see what the merriment is all about, and a couple of 'em stops short in their tracks."

-The House of Torchy

* "The only darkening element in his merriment is his habit of examining it too anxiously."

-Among Famous Books

* "When the merriment is at its height, a heavy step is heard in the corridor, and the marble man enters."

-The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.

* "The cause of their merriment is a youth of some seventeen summers, evidently the wag of the village, who stands beside them with an Accordion in his hand, and relates to them in a half-whisper how he is about to be elected Elder, and what mad pranks he will play in that capacity."

-Russia

* "Adding to the merriment is the fact that one of his players owns a restaurant where the team will head after their 8 p.m. practices (that end around 10: 30) for pizza and beer in the city where pizza originated."

-News for Charlottesville Daily Progress

* "Though I cannot drink myself, I am obliged to encourage the circulation of the glass; their mirth grows more turbulent and obstreperous; and before their merriment is at end, I am sick with disgust, and, perhaps, reproached with my sobriety, or by some sly insinuations insulted as a cit."

-The Rambler, sections 171-208 (1751-1752); The Adventurer, sections 34-108 (1753); from The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen Volumes, Volume IV

* "Its round silver eyes crinkled in merriment, inviting Kellen to share the joke."

-Fictionaut, "Tran Siberian"

* "He would laugh in merriment and say no, no, no - even though he meant yes."

-Newsweek, "A Little Brothers Large Legacy"

* "Portraying the minorities as a predominately feminine, traditional people engaged in little other than traditional song, dance, and merriment is wholly divorced from reality."

-Alexander Davenport: Misrepresenting Minorities in Shanghais World Expo Publicity Push

* "He rocked back and forth in merriment -- cackling, whooping and hollering at the line."

-Martin Lewis: The (Self) Killing Of Brother Dee: A Memory Of The Late Simon Dee

* "Much merriment is had at the absurdities that follow."

-The Wall Street Journal, "Debtors Prism"

* "A [5648] young gentleman in merriment would needs put on his mistress's clothes, and walk abroad alone, which some of her suitors espying, stole him away for her that he represented."

-Anatomy of Melancholy

* "What began as an amusing exercise in merriment turned quickly into something I can only now describe as our first and only session of family group therapy."

-NPR, "Communicating Through Karaoke"

* "So except for the litany of moronic complaints from right-wing religious nuts about how the holidays aren't quite Christian enough, this supposed time of merriment is becoming quite dull."

-The United States of Egoism

* "Besides, the little kit fitted his head so tightly as to defy his hurried efforts to remove it; but at last His Reverence escaped, nearly suffocated by this novel poultice, and pursued by inextinguishable merriment from the mob of women."

-Ralph Rashleigh

* "Oh, how I longed then for the dear soothings of maternal Nature, as my wounded heart was still further stung by the roar of heartless merriment from the public-house, by the sight of the drunkard reeling home, having lost the memory of what he would find there in oblivious debauch, and by the more appalling salutations of those melancholy beings to whom the name of home was a mockery."

-The Last Man

* "When the three witches beheld the chariot, with the frog seated pompously among the cushions, they broke into such fits of laughter that the eyelids of the blind one burst open, and she recovered her sight; the hunchback rolled about on the ground in merriment till her back became straight, and in a roar of laughter the thorn fell out of the throat of the third witch."

-The Violet Fairy Book

* "I returned home with Françoise through streets that were still gay with sunshine, as on the evening of a holiday when the merriment is over."

-Swanns Way

* Her friend quickly joined in, and once again merriment was general around the table.

-Into the Thinking Kingdoms

* His face was hideous as he grinned with his pain, his eyes crinkled as if in merriment while blood trickled from his ear and into his scruffy beard.

-The Mad Ship

* This seems a tad harsh but caused great merriment in the office.

* Why, the very seriousness was only all the more provocative of laughter: a more cunning way of making merriment.

* This was the source of much merriment in the student magazine of the day, from which some extracts follow.

* His hat was then thrown on to a joist of the stand to the general merriment of the away fans.

* This seems a tad harsh but caused great merriment in the office.

* more merriment for the masses The Daily Reckless is proud to announce the launch of its new sister paper, The Sunday Proust.

· No gold, just frank nonsense and myrth, mulled liquor and innocent festive merriment.

• My wrath flared up, for our house this day was of a certainty the last where such merriment was fitting. [10]
• Carmen was quick to note the change of tone, and her face beamed with merriment as she rose. [4]
• Polly Ann led the scrawny ponies to the trough, but her eyes snapped with merriment as she listened. [9]
• Presently she burst out: Miss Trevor began to laugh; quietly at first, and, as her merriment increased, heartily. [9]
• Whereupon he burst into loud laughter and such boisterous mirth that we fairly wept for merriment, and my lady Queen bid him hold his peace. [10]
• Honora felt her face grow hot as the merriment at the corner table rose to a height it had not heretofore attained. [9]
• As she looked at her Paula recovered herself, and as soon as she began to think merriment was at an end. [10]

Mike Carlton So that's Australia Day out of the way then, celebrated with the usual officially sponsored merriment and that curious patriotic ritual.

Zemeckis pulls out all the stops in tormenting Scrooge, but is less persuasive when depicting merriment and good cheer.

Most pride themselves on providing as much merriment as sightseeing.

With the effect that the scathing quality of the Fool's reflections is effectively swallowed by the merriment of the music.