Harrison showed an unexpected sympathy with the futile, tragic little merrymaker. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
DDDDDDD Turns out that some merrymaker has earlier put a hundred grams of hashish in the Hollandaise. From Wordnik.com. [Gravity's Rainbow]
Occasionally somebody rode up, or came tramping down the trail or through the woods -- a belated merrymaker hurrying in to ask who had arrived and who was expected. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
His mind was beginning to soar above the showman and merrymaker. From Wordnik.com. [Marse Henry (Volume 1) An Autobiography] Reference
Hendrik Frey, the boniface of Canajoharie, a famous fun-lover and merrymaker. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Cooperstown] Reference
Matteo seized the merrymaker, and was about to make short work with him, when his superior held his hand. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigand's of Greece] Reference
"I tarried thar till the last, hopin 'to have still another taste of toddy," remarked the aged merrymaker. From Wordnik.com. [The Miller Of Old Church] Reference
Instead of the indolent, satisfied air of the saturnalian merrymaker, the vagrant angler, or the gentleman farmer, with his comely dame who. From Wordnik.com. [The Disowned — Complete] Reference
With the earliest dawn of morning the first voice calling gaily for breakfast is that of the midnight merrymaker, who rises the picture of health, goodhumour, and strength. From Wordnik.com. [General J.E.B. Stuart] Reference
The Medieval entertainers of the Middle Ages included Jesters (A fool or buffoon at medieval courts), Mummers (Masked or costumed merrymaker or dancers at festivals), Minstrels and Troubadours, acrobats and jugglers and conjurers. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Then, in June, 1891, they closed the beautiful Hartford house, where for seventeen years they had found an ideal home; where the children had grown through their sweet, early life; where the world's wisest had come and gone, pausing a little to laugh with the world's greatest merrymaker. From Wordnik.com. [The Boys' Life of Mark Twain]
"'This merrymaker, who's a" jocund wight "as Colonel Sterett says, gets. From Wordnik.com. [Wolfville Nights] Reference
A goatlike figure, the companion of satyrs, or (as the Homeric hymn depicts him) a merrymaker. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference
She is still moved to tears by watching "Chimes of Midnight" and his portrayal of Falstaff, especially the climatic scene when the aging merrymaker is rejected by his former friend, the newly crowned Henry V. "I think that my father, especially as he grew older, felt that many people betrayed him and let him down and didn't help when he needed help, whether it was financial help - trying to raise money for his films, or whether it was breaking promises," Feder said of Welles, who for much of his life made low-budget films or started projects he never finished. From Wordnik.com. [Ottawa Sun] Reference
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