That way when the car goes a little off course, it could just bounce right back in and continue merrily on its way. |
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As Nicholas and Colette gaily threw horseshoes, laughing merrily and cheering the other on, Caroline stood at the back. |
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On the other hand, my co-worker read it and responded by laughing quite merrily. |
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But everything was unpacked and a fire was merrily crackling, and the smell of the meat cooking set his mouth watering. |
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The only light came from, of all things, a fire burning merrily in the grate. |
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There are circular tables, in the center, candles in the center, burning merrily away, heedless of the storm and winds that buffet this building. |
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The fire was merrily burning in the stone fireplace, the mantle draped in pine boughs and ribbon. |
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A fire burned merrily in the little grate, below a shelf of yellowing pictures, portraits, landscapes. |
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Shin-to fed the fire, and soon it burned merrily, sending an aura of warmth to those around it. |
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A fire burned merrily in the hole, crackling brightly with orange and yellow flames. |
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It was then that Trinity found herself sitting next to Ex on the couch, the merrily burning fire casting shades of golden light around the room. |
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Finally a cottage came into view, it's hearth fire smoked merrily into the star filled sky. |
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The brick wall is approaching, and they merrily say things to mislead the Bahamian public. |
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For now, it is fascinating to observe a market that is merrily accommodative to the leveraged financial players. |
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People covered the streets, merrily strolling along, pretending nothing had happened at the local pub just minutes earlier. |
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The sailor merrily trotted off to go and do something else, possibly ease a downhaul or help set a sail. |
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How many passing cars merrily toot or produce a mood-spoiling cheeky wave or a mischievous headlight flash? |
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Taking the Copen on to the A1M and M1, as well as a few rural lanes, it bowled merrily along, the engine producing a buzz in more ways than one. |
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On one occasion, after being caught short during a particularly exciting match, he merrily urinated over the heads of the fans sitting below. |
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This had no effect at all on those violent mobsters, who continued merrily to have fun at the expense of innocent citizens. |
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They had merrily managed to blast several large holes in the nearby walls, causing general mayhem. |
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Stars twinkled merrily, their brief flashes of light competing with the steady glow of the moon. |
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I got back this morning from a weekend away and the gas hob is still blazing away merrily to itself. |
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Soon he had a fire blazing away merrily and Krystal came over to stand next to him. |
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One more directed push and a fire was blazing merrily, filling the wet dark cave with flickering orange light. |
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The wagon began to blaze merrily in the morning light, and the driver barely escaped the inferno in time. |
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Birds twittered merrily as they fluttered by and squirrels chattered as they raced up and down the limbs gathering nuts. |
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So I merrily skipped off to biology, thinking that there was absolutely nothing that could go wrong. |
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I've ranted merrily about this in the past, and regular readers are doubtless bored silly by my views. |
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I glance down with horror and see my reel merrily unspooling its way down the shot. |
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It snows onto a snowman and a Christmas tree while Santa flies overhead and the aforementioned bulbs twinkle merrily. |
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It is a pleasure to see the ducks, geese and water hens merrily splashing around in the lake. |
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Got a way to go on the muscle memory, but I was merrily pootling around, changing gears, reversing, the odd handbrake turn, etc. |
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Whilst we were merrily munching our way through our chimichangas, a group of young men came in to the restaurant and sat down at the next table. |
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The birds are chirping merrily and I can hear the usual sound of motor cars hustling to reach wherever it is that their drivers need to get to. |
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So, when Ken talks merrily of cameras being panned, zoomed and being used to identify drivers, we have clear drift in purpose. |
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It gets funnier as it goes along, till by the end I was chortling merrily at every second line. |
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The day before, Ethan had been lively and was chuckling merrily, despite having a cold. |
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Her hair was swept in an elaborate coiffure, a smile playing on her lips and her eyes dancing merrily. |
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The gold case shone in the dim light of the shop, and the hour hand ticked away merrily. |
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The poem satirizes merrily enough, being windy and rhapsodic, prostrate and profligate, swoony and bitter, and attacks various people. |
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I took a last slug of the water in my bottle, hopped back on the bike, and pedalled merrily home. |
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One thing they had in abundance and were merrily flogging off was a strange collapsible bag-thing with a mesh top. |
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His whole face smiled, his eyes crinkled up and his gray green eyes danced merrily. |
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Also, my clips seem to slip off cord trousers, leaving my cuffs to flap merrily in the breeze and play with the bike chain. |
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Taking a seat in a corner booth, we order a bottle of wine and begin gossiping away merrily. |
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I merrily strode over to a park table and dropped my laptop, burger, fries and coffee on the grainy, wooden surface. |
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It feels like someone's switched on an electric fire in the school's drama studio as the youngsters respond and swing merrily into action. |
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Bolivians in golden cowboy boots, a South African woman in miners' gumboots, and six dignified Lebanese men holding hands all stomped merrily. |
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The minstrels, bedecked in red doublets and white hose, played upbeat tunes to which gardens of brightly clad nobles danced merrily. |
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The only other bird we saw using the houses was a small brown fellow warbling merrily for no one in particular. |
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The group of sleigh bells hung above the door jingled merrily as Wendy and Samantha entered the general store. |
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Parents and children, youths and older men spend their free time in these places agreeably and merrily. |
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The nation is again being told off for its profligacy, economic wowsers merrily predicting a scuttling. |
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A gloved hand slammed merrily on a wooden table, shaking the contents on it and clattering a box of various tools to the floor. |
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The other 4 guys are all merrily chatting away with the moustachioed bartender in the denim shirt. |
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Beads of perspiration rolled merrily along my hairline and flowed down the shallow rivulet between eye and nose. |
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Her usually creamy cheeks had a rosy hue, and her eyes were dancing merrily. |
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She had black hair and a ruddy face, and was humming merrily as she sliced bread at the table. |
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The low, irregular ceiling is crisscrossed with beams made from ships' timbers and a log fire crackles merrily in the hearth. |
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They tannoyed that we would honour 2 minutes silence at 11am and 2 of their workers were merrily walking down the aisle talking to each other. |
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A string quartet was playing merrily in the corner and hundreds of feet were tapping out uneven rhythms on the mosaic marble floor. |
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We raced the rooftops to the very edge of it where we saw a group of soldiers merrily laughing and telling stories around the fire. |
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Alicia had placed a group of advent candles on the windowsill and their flames were flickering merrily against the backdrop of the night. |
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Tiki torches blazed on with timed gas flames and danced merrily in the ever-encroaching darkness. |
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The pea stalks, dry as tinder, caught quickly and burned merrily, sending a plume of clean white smoke up to catch the wind. |
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They are political or philosophical, merrily inebriate or sententiously sober. |
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Interspersed Labyrinth snippets with an episode of Safran vs. God and laughed merrily. |
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The girls, delighted by their little play, laughed merrily and forgot about the gossip. |
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A wood burner will blaze merrily away through the coldest of the hours. |
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So I trotted merrily over to the best of the refreshment stands, treated myself to a hot bacon buttie and a cup of black tea, and sat down to enjoy it. |
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As only she could, Violet had noticed how Althia's reading of them irked him and gleefully added more salt to the wound by laughing merrily whenever she spoke. |
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He poured his solution in, and watched in horror and disbelief as the white membrane filter dissolved and merrily sluiced through the glass frit along with his compound. |
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Up in the ash-trees the birds piped and sang merrily together. |
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The bell on the door tinkled merrily in the dull glow of lamplight. |
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In six week's time, all the decorations will be burning merrily on a fire taken down, and the shops will be full of sales, Valentine's Day cards, and Easter Eggs. |
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But I spent the remains of the afternoon lounging on the divan with Ali-Bab, nibbling almonds, sipping mint tea, and listening to the water bubbling merrily in his hookah. |
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By the time it got dark we'd set ourselves up in siege mode, sitting round the living-room gas fire, candles burning merrily, and listening to the radio. |
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He had a coal-black beard and dark eyes that twinkled merrily. |
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Kara shook her head, the silver hoop earrings she wore jangling merrily. |
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As ever Debbie put on a lovely spread of food, and there was much alcohol to be quaffed merrily, including one of the most potent punches ever, and cocktails. |
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To have a log fire in the house may be beautiful if it is burning safely in the grate, but if it is burning merrily on the lounge floor the house could be burned down. |
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Some watering holes continue to run merrily till late into the night while everyone knows that for the dancing-singing bars, the deadline is dawn! |
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A number of lawn chairs and a canopied swing were encircled around a large, self-dug fire pit, in which a small orange fire was crackling merrily in the afternoon sun. |
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After all, who hasn't found themselves in the middle of a favourite movie only to catch a whiff of some foul miasma making its way merrily up your nostrils? |
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A small fire crackled merrily on the hearth over which a kettle hung. |
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No-man's time, we landed in, missing both event and consequence, simply trailing merrily down the steps at eight o'clock on a balmy summer morning. |
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I happily deposited my load, unfolded my wireless and merrily surfed, blogged and YouTubed away while my delicates swirled and dried to the leisurely soundtrack of my iTunes. |
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The young Marquis spent most of his youth with his merrily libertine uncle, Abbe de Sade, whose bordello business basically set the norm for the family. |
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But I did laugh very merrily when the reception manager made his way around the courtyard diners, rigged up in full Father Christmas gear and gumboots five sizes too big. |
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The roll of paper towels was toppled over and on fire, the flames merrily making scorch marks on the counter and soot stains on the underside of the cabinets. |
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Ogwad jogged merrily down the beaten dirt path leading through the woods. |
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And that soaks into tissue very readily, with the acid part doing its damage along the way, and the fluoride merrily poisoning enzymes and wreaking havoc. |
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Out the back, my friend's voices rise merrily above the beer garden. |
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The weather was fine, tables laden and potjies bubbling merrily away. |
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Rainwater resulted in puddles and kids merrily played with paper boats. |
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Cautiously, Cassari folded her hands in her lap and shifted her eyes to the fiddler who merrily sawed away at the strings of the fiddle with his bow. |
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Maude left to tend the teakettle, which was whistling merrily. |
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Incredibly, however, many on the council still refused to admit that the whole problem was the hundred acre coal fire merrily burning beneath the town. |
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He actively disliked non-smokers and merrily mocked teetotallers. |
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Goodness knows how many times I've turned the key, waited for the plugs to warm up, started the engine and tootled off merrily without a moment's problem or hesitation. |
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His children, however, ran about merrily, making new friends and helping themselves to food provided by the prefecture. |
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Not only are introductions in order, you should also give the fresh acquaintances a little traction to get their friendship rolling merrily along. |
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Today the Moomin industry sails merrily along without her restraining hand on the tiller. |
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The chamber had super computers humming merrily all around its perimeter. |
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They laugh merrily, although the joke has a practiced feel, as if it had been trotted out regularly to mute the painful reality of Graves's current situation. |
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Placing one arm akimbo, he laughed merrily, almost obnoxiously, and his father joined him with that deep jeering guffaw Wilfred loathed so desperately. |
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Those were the days before seatbelts in the back, and we used to bounce around so merrily that by the end of any long voyage our bench was a glorified vomitorium. |
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All grimed with coaldust, they swing along the street with their dinner baskets and cans in their hands, chattering merrily. |
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Apneics, Others, and Narcos all gossip merrily on the walk back to our cabins. |
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The water was soon slushing merrily over the deck, while the smoke pouring from the cabin stove carried a promise of good things to come. |
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How merrily we would sally into the fields, and strip under the first warmth of the sun, and wanton like young dace in the streams! |
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Both continue to sail merrily along as nationally acclaimed nosheries and rendezvous of the famous. |
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The veteran merrily skipped over that obstacle and cruised clear unextended to take the prize by a length and a quarter. |
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The girl with the long blonde hair who is normally on the extreme left as you gawp at the five ladies merrily jigging away in their matching leotards. |
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Likewise and moreover, Howaji, is it a time to betalk ourselves merrily of dates, I request you, when the pasha's visit is to be made preparations for? |
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But, Lord! to hear how W. Symons do commend and look sadly and then talk bawdily and merrily, though his wife was dead but the other day, would make a dogg laugh. |
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For all but these festive fixtures the past 12 months have been an annus horribilis but the year has finished on a ding-dong merrily on high note. |
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