merrymakings
Example Sentences
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I hope you will not ask her to help in your merrymakings; she understands nothing but a romp.
From The Gold of Chickaree by Warner, Susan
What heartless merrymakings may I not have sent you to worry you, when soothing was the one thing wanted?
From An Englishwoman's Love-Letters by Housman, Laurence
That day had been chosen for the dance in the forest, one of the two merrymakings dearest to the hearts of those earliest Kentuckians.
From Round Anvil Rock A Romance by Banks, Nancy Huston
His violin went everywhere with him, and in more than one of the little towns along the big river, people began to demand the boy fiddler who could make such gay music for their merrymakings.
From The Windy Hill by Meigs, Cornelia
It was a part of the duty of the Marquis and Marchioness de Lafayette to take part in the plays and merrymakings that centered about a queen who loved amusement only too well.
From Lafayette by Crow, Martha Foote
