Even though I may have been slightly merry, I still could not escape the feeling of how weird all this was. |
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Once I returned she punched up my receipt and had me on my merry way in a jiff. |
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Well, he asked me if I wanted to sign on the dotted line and join his band of merry men. |
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For a while, she watches the merry flames which seem to embody the very spirit of this night. |
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Mark was a large, strong guy who looked as if he could take care of troublesome people while whistling a merry tune. |
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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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The merry din of talk, laughter, music, and clattering dinnerware spills outside. |
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From my family and I to you and yours, I wish you all a very merry Christmas and a prosperous and successful New Year. |
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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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She included some ridiculously complex instructions for how to do so, and sent me on my merry way. |
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The melody was at times slow and lilting, and other times fast-paced and merry. |
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Her skin had been scrubbed until it was soft, and then brushed over with powder and rouge so that they looked rosy and merry. |
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Bands of roving youths, lubricated by alcohol, went about town making merry, making noise, and sometimes making trouble. |
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More cider, m'lud, was consumed on the way, and the merry band of brigands even picked up a passenger who was fishing at Fiddown. |
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A scramble to the top of the mound gave a good view of merry little red-sailed dinghiess tacking this way and that. |
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It's really hard because I can't just delete him from the cell phone autodial and be off on my merry way. |
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The joy-bells tang out a merry peal, and the inhabitants in general put lights into their windows. |
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They're both eager to drink, club and make merry in London while they can before returning to Tehran next week. |
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Now, we go to rest, drink, eat, and make merry to give us all a nice happy buzz to prevent any feelings of worry about tomorrow! |
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Each was crammed with small parties of people making merry and recounting long passed glory days. |
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We started off the evening at the house, drinking and making merry before we went out for the night. |
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Currently, the rest of the unit were making merry in there rooms, enjoying the few hours each day they got off. |
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They binge on Thai food, drink and make merry, take the sun and gleefully partake in Pattaya's rowdy nightlife. |
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After a day of eating, drinking and making merry, round off with some words of wisdom from our favourite family. |
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She saw people feasting, dancing, and making merry, exactly as she expected. |
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Relatives, friends and well wishers join together to eat, drink, and make merry. |
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By day, they gathered to denounce royal policy, while at night they expected to eat, drink, and make merry at the king's expense. |
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After all, there will be plenty of chances to eat, drink and make merry once he has retired. |
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From atop a tree-house, the big picture of a man with a white flowing beard gazed down on a merry crowd gathered around a huge cake. |
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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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It was clear that the merry season of Yule logs, plum pudding, fruitcakes, marzipans, macaroons and roast turkey had not yet come to a close. |
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Happy holidays, season's greetings, and oh, yes, merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night. |
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Her laughter was deep, right from the stomach, and it sounded like merry drums beating away. |
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And I laughed and guffawed at the irony of it, and even Verge did let forth a merry mirth-filled giggle. |
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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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A local band played on a raised pedestal and people of all species were dancing together in time with the lively beat in a merry atmosphere. |
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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 girls were all merry and cheerful, walking through the regiments to spread encouragement and cheer to the men gathered there. |
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She pointed out that sensible young men noticed what a few years of married life could do to the once happy, merry girl he knew. |
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This link has phrases saying merry Christmas and happy new year in many, many, many languages. |
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Within seconds, the three of us are chugging away at the front of the balcony, clinking glasses and bottles with the merry throng around us. |
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Jahson clapped his hands with glee and danced a merry jig while Pablo grinned wolfishly. |
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Her soprano lullabies and fun character allowed the audience to laugh and be merry. |
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The night was not lonely either, as quite a few regulars danced cheerfully to merry tunes in the moonlight. |
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Dad had spotted me and my cheese snacks, and waved me over with a disgustingly merry grin on his face. |
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Still, we carry on cheerfully, whistling a merry tune as we stir it all up with a wooden spoon. |
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The eldest of the Ellertson girls were slightly younger than Clara, and were as merry and cheerful as their brother. |
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The Finale is also merry and joyous in keeping with the whole spirit of the work. |
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Every popular hangout for young folks has planned a merry event to mark the festivities, and on the menu are foods and beverages from many lands. |
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A slice of fried or steamed fish fairly salivates at the prospect of a merry meeting. |
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Chris Birdsall, hospital spokesman, said it is important patients get to celebrate the merry season. |
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Bright and attractive colours were used to create a merry festival atmosphere. |
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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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In any case I hope you have a very merry season, and the best of everything n the New Year. |
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And finally as it is the festive season, a very merry Christmas to everyone from all at Headfirst Productions. |
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The fire crackled and, beside it, rum punch simmered with promise of a merry Occasion. |
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Jerome, muttering and dripping thick mud and rainwater, brought up the rear of this merry parade. |
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For example, here's a very merry guy who might just have a slight problem with alcohol. |
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In the event, the meal was fine and, by the end, I was feeling slightly merry, and my companions were at last sobering up. |
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More than half of them were merry with alcohol at that point, and a lot drunker than people thought I was. |
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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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Basically, after having no alcoholic drink supplies for the previous week, it was no wonder we were all quite merry on that occasion. |
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I bought an iced latte and a yummy vanilla caramel stick thing at Starbucks, browsed the magazines and went on my merry way. |
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Then I can just manoeuvre over to my local neighbourhood crane, knock the bomb off, land up-right and go on my merry way. |
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I guess your expectation is that you get online, release your pent-up culpability and go on your merry way. |
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So we went on our merry way, stopping at Bangkok City Hall, and a tiny temple with a lucky fat Buddha. |
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I then paid for the postcards and went on my merry way to wait another two hours for my plane to leave. |
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He's the kind of guy who, when you moved his cheese, would take it in his stride and quietly go on his merry way. |
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The new designs mostly just pay lip service to this notion and then go on their merry way. |
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If she's feeling a bit energetic, I can simply leave it dripping and go on my merry way. |
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In a word, he looked exactly like the ape dressed in the habit of a merry andrew, except that he had no hair. |
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In Dickon's eyes, the outlaw is hardly the laughing, jesting merry man found in Pyle's version. |
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The trip to Norway was so tightly budgeted the team spent their first evening at a transport cafe making merry over a slice of cake between four. |
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So, come the denouement, their table was very bibulous and merry while everyone else was in a state of nervy misery. |
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After our many chores are done, Miss Windygale often turns us loose for a merry romp through the fields. |
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A school official was making merry with some blank cheques signed by an official who had to go abroad. |
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The bright blue sky and the merry pipe of birds call him out to active exercise and unaccustomed sport. |
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He enjoyed the sensation of his full belly hanging over his loose pajama bottoms, unconstricted and merry in its fleshy freedom. |
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You always wear a skid lid, because no matter how good you are, the rest of the world continues along its merry way. |
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At such merry exuberance, I can't help but give these youngsters a merry twinkle of my eye, and sometimes a caramel-flavoured boiled sweet. |
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We woke to the merry sound of oyster-catchers and curlews busily nesting in the marshes and tried to trace the haunting drum of snipe in flight. |
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I did run around a lot, eat a fair amount of food, neck a reasonable amount of champagne, and get fairly merry all up. |
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He was led a merry dance by Lord Fairfax and his son, Sir Thomas and was never able to totally overcome this energetic pair of Roundheads. |
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Carlow were led a merry dance by Offaly in the semi-final of the Leinster Vocational Schools SFC in Stradbally on Friday. |
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Now it is the turn of the international financial markets to be led a merry dance by Argentina. |
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The officer refused to obey the guard's instructions and continued on his merry way. |
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Maybe I'm regularly subjected to it whilst I wind my merry oblivious way up and down the country. |
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It was not going to be a merry Christmas for the Australian troops, and no amount of cracking hardy would make it so. |
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Two, at least, were having a merry time carrying on with their gentlemen in waiting, until they got caught. |
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I'm ushered into a clean, airy office by a small, stout man with merry eyes, a father's face. |
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The sounds of merry birds chirping and horses neighing pleasantly awoke Nyerel. |
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Every Saturday, a merry band of chucklers invites visitors to pack up their troubles and join in. |
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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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Windsor and the surrounding towns hum with great places to eat, drink and be as merry as a monarch. |
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About 10 am the ringers of the bells rang two merry peals when the scholars immediately assembled. |
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It appeared the boys had got themselves relatively merry before walking home along the pebbled beach. |
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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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He comes to the counting house to wish Scrooge a merry Christmas and invite his uncle to dine with himself and his wife on Christmas Day. |
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They were a group of merry youngsters, almost maddened with the exuberant frolicsomeness of their years. |
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And, even if it is not solely by Shakespeare, at least this production will add merry fuel to the debate. |
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The sparrows were merry along the curbstones, taking bath after bath in the water and ruffling their feathers with delight. |
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Archeologists unearthed a galaxy of merry swastikas when they excavated Troy. |
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It was hard to imagine how that merry prankster and mistress of worthy causes could be subject to such punishing mood swings. |
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They were more than fairly high, merry as grigs, and prepared to go on all night. |
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Everyone said Annabelle had been merry as a grig before the man she loved married elsewhere. |
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The boy looks over the valley, across the playing field where he and his brother pushed each other on the rusted, groaning merry go round. |
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But it seems that the PM appointed his cabinet, and set them on their merry way without any policy enjoinders. |
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The fair was also a social occasion and people came out in the merry month of May to enjoy themselves. |
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As I sit here writing I've just heard the merry sound of screeching car tyres followed by the kiss of two cars entwining themselves. |
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I could almost hear her merry laugh ringing across the harbor as I slowly walked along the pier, reading her return epistle. |
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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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I was dressed like one of Robin's merry men, with the green leggings and the doublet and the soft boots. |
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We have two small dogs that, if they had their druthers, would dance, sing, and be merry up to their ears in kitty litter. |
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Let me take you back a few years, to a time when a young man happily ate, drank and was rather too merry! |
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The walls were hung with blankets and quilts for insulation, and it looked quite merry next to the somber dirt floor. |
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According to his diary, the hearth was christened with a fire, supper was served on a workbench lit by candles, and the few merry guests danced the Virginia reel. |
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The Welsh laid down their weapons for the feast but the drunken merry making came to a dramatic halt when William challenged them never again to bear arms in his domains. |
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Visitors will be able to aim high with the English longbow or match their skills to the Agincourt archers or those of Robin Hood and his merry men. |
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We were trying to throw the poles aside while whistling a merry tune. |
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And then once more, he marched off, whistling a merry tune as he went. |
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He got out his tinder and after a few moments a merry fire was burning. |
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We were very sorry to hear about the theft and we were happy to give them a replacement with our compliments and hope that they have a very merry Christmas. |
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You've got elephants, giraffes, carousels and merry go-rounds. |
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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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Meanwhile, the world's nasty types the greedy, the vicious, the self-serving, the nutters go on their merry way, as murderously unambiguous as ever. |
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America's retail sector is having itself a not so merry little Christmas. |
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An excuse to shop until you drop, drink to excess and make merry. |
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Endorsed by jester, clowns, and merry andrews all over the world! |
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With the merry season fast approaching people are warned that more than two thirds of the region's young singletons say smoking drastically reduces sexual attractiveness. |
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He thought of their merry singing, their coarse and wheezy whistle. |
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I gave him the benefit of the doubt, and went on my merry way. |
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How oft when men are at the point of death have they been 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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All the while there is soft or merry music coming from violins, accordions, barrel organsor small orchestras of street musicians, some of them in gaily colored apparel. |
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We arrived back on Assateague Island to unbury and set up our sand-covered tents, and continue our merry vacation until its end back in Pittsburgh. |
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Strange to feel so melancholy at such a joyous time, so many people celebrating, making merry, making love in the warm twilight of these shortest nights. |
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He's grey, got a few miles on the clock and hooks into the public purse as though he was a fair-dinkum member of the royal family, but a merry old soul he is not. |
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I think it was a cricket, but when I heard it, I was merry as a grig! |
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So, in this episode, the crew simply tracks down the offending aliens, gives them the little foetus, and goes on their merry way, completely unaffected by the event. |
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They made merry on Christmas, sometimes got drunk and became loud. |
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I'd placed the order before the merry events of the last few weeks, so I was a bit surprised to come home one day and find 50 bags piled in the backyard. |
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I believe I'll just go along with BiaS and ignore this merry event. |
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Motta showed the habitual strengths and weaknesses of his game as he was led a merry dance by Makelele and was involved in taut action with Drogba. |
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Pixies run on his limbs and they arrange merry feasts in his honour. |
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I immediately tried to call Melissa to find out what the scoop was before I tore into Bob who I assumed had planned merry bird adventures instead of working at the store. |
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Why not make Election Eve as merry and festive as Christmas Eve? |
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I received a much more discreet dressing and went on my merry way. |
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Percy Heath, a merry fellow, specialized in leading the Reverend Professor Doctor astray and had a lot of fun with him. |
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The second chair was white, and plush, and inhabited by a big woman with merry Asian eyes and a red robe embroidered with hundreds of Celtic crosses done in silver brocade. |
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They ventured through the old rust belt of inner city Melbourne and along the merry creek until they came across the outlet of a storm water pipe. |
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Sitting on a bench with, as I soon discover, two slightly merry female postgraduate students who are, like me, waiting for a train on the Rayners Lane branch. |
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But I committed the cover to memory and went on my merry way. |
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Everyone was getting quite merry, and the glasses were being passed about. |
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Eventually, the merry mutilators grow sick of each other's horrendous overacting and face off for an ultimate battle of brains, brawn, bowie knives, and tire irons. |
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Arriving at the outskirts of Brussels the merry band of travellers were aghast to discover that the entire city had been obliterated by a weapon of mass destruction. |
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Clouds covered the sun, a respectful veil shading the sun's merry rays. |
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I want to enjoy my existence on this earth, be happy and make merry. |
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The English heard of this superstition from the Romans and called their wishbones merrythoughts after the merry or happy wishes that most people desired. |
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As usual making fun of myself so everyone can laugh and be merry. |
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The trio includes a beautiful holly motif holiday serving bowl, sweet gingerbread-house cookie jar and a merry mug. |
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Their show captures the atmosphere of midnight carollers, mummers, wassailing, dancing and making merry in the mid-19th century. |
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I may be forced to acquiesce in these recent developments, but I can hardly be expected to make merry over them. |
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He shows me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long. |
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It was military bandsmen, their uniform coats unbuttoned, who supplied the merry tune, from a clarinet, a tuba, a fife. |
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The black rooks will fly away, my son, and you'll come back as brown as a berry, and as merry as a grig. |
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This is not a very merry Christmas for Japanazi leaders. And, that should be a source of great personal satisfaction to you. |
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They saw us and ran for it like merry hell, trying to get there and plunder it before we could raise the alarm. |
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Many a man I've known started like you to be an honest outlaw, a merry robber of the rich, and ended stamped into slime. |
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The children led us on a merry dance with their stories of strangers and shadows in the night. |
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There they are aided by Tom Bombadil, a strange and merry fellow who lives with his wife Goldberry in the forest. |
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They danced round and round their merry Jockie Faw, And roosed the gypsie laddie. |
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We wandered and fiddled and zithered and tambourined through France till the chills and rains of autumn rendered our vagabondage less merry. |
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How could the holidays be merry and bright without Holiday Lights? |
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Quickstepping Barber led many an employer a merry dance as well as manoeuvring unions out of trouble. |
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If you want to get a bit merry then go steady and drink as many soft drinks as you do alcoholic ones. |
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The curation of such a merry company was surely no easy feat. |
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With nothing for the bowlers in terms of pace and bounce, Hafeez and Shahzad made merry. |
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Residents and staff from Victoria House, Grove Lodge, The Courtyard, Evergreen Care Home and Lavender Court all attended and made merry. |
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Residents of warmer climes, the tourists made merry in the intensely cold weather, throwing snowballs at one another. |
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He makes merry with a role gone bonkers banking on the sheer comic timing that we have seen so many times before. |
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John's work has received critical acclaim across the country for his down to earth, deadpan style which makes merry from the mundane. |
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And everyone has been led a merry dance by the nameless, faceless securocrats who pull the strings behind the scenes. |
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As the merry widow, she sings with charm and elegance, but little charisma or real sense of glamour. |
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Some of us got a little merry at the office Christmas party. |
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A table massive enough to have dined Johnnie Armstrong and his merry men. |
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This is usually the port for Rome, but our merry bunch was boarding a coach headed for Saturnia in the Tuscan countryside home to some beautiful hot sulphurous springs. |
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So you would assume the thought of watching his merry band take a skelping or two from the Zurich Premiership champions would be the cause of his insomnia. |
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All the Diamonds made merry and Ludvig Lindgren raced to his second successive 15-point maximum, while all the others were paid for double-figure tallies. |
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To celebrate the arrival of May, Segedunum Roman fort, at Wallsend, Newcastle, made merry with a mix of performances and activities on Bank Holiday Monday. |
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Funny how something can be a sin one month and not the next but, then again, weren't the faithful led a merry dance by teaching that unbaptised babies went to Limbo. |
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Besides Carlsen and Caruana, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan made merry at the expense of blitz tournament winner Hikaru Nakamura of United States to be in joint lead. |
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They made merry for as long as they could, and then started their homeward trek before deciding that 20 miles to Southport might be a Christmas adventure too far. |
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Then smiles all round for Gardel's foot-tapping exotic Tango featuring piano accordion, plus Nicola's violinist sister Stephanie, joining the merry band. |
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As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound. |
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The merry widow snaps after discovering a video of her late husband and Cindy in bed and clobbers her love rival with a Father Christmas statue, which is at least festive. |
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Thanks to Ben Foster whose choice of instruments hybridizes into a single merry mix that beautifully accommodates Chyme HD's verses and Ade Piper's chant. |
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Be merry, man, for a minute, for you'll be a long time dead! |
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I said, I was glad no mortal eyes were upon us in our merry rompings. |
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Uniquely, many people in Montreal distinguish between words like marry versus merry and parish versus perish, which are homophones to most other speakers of Canadian English. |
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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. |
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Djokovic made merry against Del Potro in the earlier semi-final. |
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Brady's attacking instincts and pace helped to limit the influence of winger Edin Visca, who had led the Republic a merry dance at the Bilino Polje Stadium. |
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A cluster of mob were making themselves merry with their betters. |
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One of them, the eldest, was a sort of merry andrew and was not above dressing the part with a weird cap of jackal's skin with many hanging tails and tassels. |
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