merrymakings
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The noise of resulting merrymakings sufficiently sought out and annoyed her ear.
From The Lady of Fort St. John by Mary Hartwell Catherwood
But he had been over fond of merrymakings and junketings.
From The Merrie Tales of Jacques Tournebroche And Child Life in Town and Country by A. R. (Alfred Richard) Allinson
In a silent, undemonstrative manner of his own McClintock gathered the loose money in and about Vesper; a shrewd bargainer, ungiven to merrymakings; one who knew how to keep dollars at work.
From Copper Streak Trail by Eugene Manlove Rhodes
Sometimes, for days together, she would be left alone in the house, while Dame Martha and Margaret dressed themselves up in all their finery, and went off to fairs and merrymakings in the neighboring town.
From The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book by Constance Cary Harrison
They have cast off, it is true, many of their ancestors' games and merrymakings, but they have in no degree lost their soul of mirth and happiness.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 262, July 7, 1827 by Various
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