The merrier the heart the longer the life," says Burton in his Anatomy of Melancholy.
One could not have asked for a franker, merrier face than that which peered at Celestina through the narrow chink of sunshine.
The little girl, however, was the merrier of the two.
I thought before I left I'd look at a merrier end of France.
I was not rendered merrier a short while afterwards by an airy letter from Horatio Bakkus enclosing a flourishing announcement in French of his marriage with the Veuve Elodie Marescaux, née Figasso.
After a long pause he turned to Merrier and asked him how he had fared in the attack.
As I said," Merriertook up again, "I have too little faith to be an anarchist, but I have too much to believe in religion.
Merrier got to his feet and smilingly filled the glasses all round.
Observing it to be painful she abruptly breaks off, and with a sweep of her fingers across the guitar strings, changes to the merrier refrain of "Old Dan Tucker.
Now it was soon seen that no few there were that would be fain to ride with the Knight, who soon had his choice of ten tall men, stout, and deft in weapons, and the end of the feast was merrier than the beginning.
And she wept a little therewith; so he repented his surliness and set to comfort her, till she laughed and he also, and they were merrier together.
So take this for my last word, that I shall turn my back upon thee so soon as thou hast paid me my hire, and shall go seek quarters down the Dale, at some merrier stead than this.
Did you ever see anybody merrier than my father is?
Nothing could be merrier than Hugh had been; and his mother and Agnes were chatting, when they thought they heard a sob from the sofa.
I have not heard A merrier word than dinner all this day.
So the dinner grew merrier and merrier until at last everyone had had enough to eat.
And above the sound of their own speeches rose the merriernote of the fiddle.
A Merrier Christmas, Bob, my good fellow, than I have ever given you for many a year!
Wait; they will soon put the memory of you aside, and will be ten times merrier than before, and Tiny Tim will sing.
At the same time, the very ecclesiastics who had been so dismally engaged all night began to put on morning faces, to do honour to the merrier ceremony which was about to follow.
And Sir Daniel, who was a very merry knight, none merrier in England, took a drink of his mulled ale, and lay back, smiling.
Many have told of the monks of old, What a saintly race they were, But ’tis most true, that a merrier crew Could scarce be found elswhere!
And ’tis most true, that a merrier crew Could not be found elswhere!
No person had a merrier run of stories, songs, and village traditions, and all those odds and ends of character which form the materials for animated conversation.
Little Edward was the child of my uncle's old age, and a brighter, merrier little blossom never grew on the verge of an avalanche.
But Pah-Sidin married yet another new wife, and lived even merrier than hitherto.
And Pah-Sidin married a new wife, and lived merrier than before.
Well, I must content myself, none other help I know, Until a merrier gale of wind may hap to blow.
With sundry sports and taunts yesternight I delighted the king, That with his loud laughter the whole court did ring, And I thought he laugh’d not merrier than I, when I got this money.
He was as much merrier than you, for instance, as you are merrier than your father.
This practice might be somewhat ruder than that constant training, in the course of which a man of ordinary morals is accustomed to observe, to warn, to punish, himself daily; but it was also merrier and surer.
Meanwhile the company were growing merrier and merrier: they had already emptied several flasks of wine, and were now beginning to get very loud.
At last came merry Christmas, and Eustace Bright along with it, making it all the merrier by his presence.
Yea, verily, said Leonard; but farmerrier yet wert thou to dwell there.
Then mayst thou send and do Sir Geoffrey to wit thereof, and belike he will come back again; and fain were I thereof for it will bemerrier if the Castle of the Quest be dwelt in once more.
Three in a wood will be merrier than two in a wood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "merrier" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
