What's the best your house affords, my jolly grig?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference

Polly was happy as a grig, and all the others equally so.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peggy Stewart at School] Reference

Honestly, I have nothing to compare it to either, and neither does the "grig!".    From Wordnik.com.  [The WritingYA Weblog: That One Question, Finally Asked] Reference

It had been a pleasant surprise when Mag-grig had misinterpreted Uther's question.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ghost King]

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Before the eyes of the attackers the giant body shrank and Mag-grig pushed forward to stare at the dead but now human face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ghost King]

As if the life of an eel-grig were set in an ashen stick.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs] Reference

Here I sit every night till after dark as merry as a grig.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss] Reference

He was as merry as a grig, full of chat and very friendly and amusing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Standfast] Reference

As for himself, he was always as merry as a grig, and no fool, either.    From Wordnik.com.  [L'Assommoir] Reference

I don't see why she should not be as merry as a grig; I am sure she has reason enough to be so.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Contrast] Reference

He was a merry little grig of a man, and he babbled on, till I announced my intention of going to bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Standfast] Reference

Ah, many's the morn the birds ha 'waked me and I as merry as any grig -- Lord love their beaks and wings!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Bartlemy's Treasure] Reference

Kirsten's half-smile means she's trying to hold it together for the family but could really use some pinot grig.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference

When I have grown more accustomed to being the lucky dog, I shall commence cockahooping, and become merry as a grig.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baboo Jabberjee, B.A.] Reference

Member since 03-05-2010, 6: 16 AM then in code bihand file in pageindexChanged event i bind the grig again, like Grid1.    From Wordnik.com.  [ASP.NET Forums] Reference

Lynn simply could not write to mother without crying a little, though for the rest of the time she was a merry little grig.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Mist of the Mountains] Reference

Another dodge for taking eels, which is not in the nature of what is called a "fixed engine," is the movable eel-trap or "grig wheel.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist on the Thames] Reference

He is as drunk as a piper, drunk as an owl, drunk as David's sow, drunk as a lord, fuddled as an ape, merry as a grig, happy as a king.    From Wordnik.com.  [Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)] Reference

We'd have been merry as a grig if we'd been drinking gin. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs] Reference

‘What’s going to change you in six years, you rum little grig?’ he said slowly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sweet Danger]

He's as jolly as a grig, but he doesn't give up, and I suppose some day Miriam will give in. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Miss Pat at School] Reference

Mag-grig, as always, was the spokesman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ghost King]

"Oh, she's a merry little grig, you can see that, and there's no harm in her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Silas Lapham] Reference

Desire to grig people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

A wildly hilarious grig.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference

And merry as a grig is grown.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference

As blithe and merry as a grig.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chatterbox Stories of Natural History] Reference

He talked as cheery as a grig.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corporal Sam and Other Stories] Reference

As proud as a peacock -- as blithe as a grig.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Humorous Verse] Reference

I'm as merry as a grig from morning till night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss] Reference

I shall be as merry as a grig among these gentry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Curiosity Shop] Reference

Curdle banzai; grig ameloblastoma apod.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Headlines from World Press Review] Reference

A grig began deliberately.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems] Reference

With their grig-like mandolins.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems] Reference

Treefrog and Meadow-grig.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : a Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music,] Reference