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Example sentences for "make merry"

  • To rejoice, doth shew the present act of the soul; but to make merry, is to use the means as will keep this joy alive, and on foot.

  • Tis bard on Spring; Make merry; my love is doubly worth All worship your fields can bring!

  • I have won her O good brown earth, Make merry!

  • And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them and make merry: and shall send gifts one to another, because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt upon the earth.

  • And the father of the young woman said to his son in law: I beseech thee to stay here to day, and let us make merry together.

  • And he answering, said to his father: Behold, for so many years do I serve thee and I have never transgressed thy commandment: and yet thou hast never given me a kid to make merry with my friends.

  • And the princes of the Philistines assembled together, to offer great sacrifices to Dagon their god, and to make merry, saying: Our god hath delivered our enemy Samson into our hands.

  • There will be badges of honour, harps to make merry with, and heavenly songs of triumph; doth any here know what they are?

  • To make merry, to feast; to be joyful or jovial.

  • Make merry~, Feast, be jovial, be joyful.

  • However, to prove this, as also at the same time to confirm what has been said above, in relation to the motives that induced people of old times to make merry, I shall instance some passages of the ancients.

  • The ancients had, besides this, another motive which induced them to make merry, and pass their time agreeably.

  • I see you feasting round me still, All gay of heart and strong of limb; Make merry, friends, your glasses fill, The lights are growing dim.

  • Yet some must swim when others sink, And some must sink when others swim; Make merry, comrades, eat and drink, The lights are growing dim.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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