They were in Rita's room, and she lay gazing fascinated at Kurt's brown face, with its merry eyes flashing blue light as he laughed and talked.
There came out the merry clink of hammers on the anvil, and then the hiss of the red-hot metal plunged into water.
I get moments out of my work that make everything else seem nothing at all, just something to laugh at and be merry over.
Every one of those merry girls and boys was more thoughtful and tender for the association with him.
Let's go over and wish Miss Brown a Merry Christmas," proposed Carl, when the candles began to burn low.
From the star chamber windows Robin and his merry men looked down on the transformation which was taking place in their old domain.
They were a merry party as they started out, waving their good-bys, Ikey feeling particularly proud to be counted one of her boys.
There was the same big, hospitable door, but it would not open to-day to let out two merry little maidens.
Carl brought in a basket of apples, and drawing up in a sociable circle they soon became merry and very much at ease.
It was almost dark when Dora was set down at her own door, merry and rosy.
They were now having a merry time over Ikey's suggestion to hang a holly wreath above the Big Front Door.
They grew so merry over Ikey's story that it was difficult to come back to such commonplaces as writing on fences and walls, and scattering papers around.
So merryhe be, I bid him abide: And merry be we This good Yuletide.
That in the merry spring Think not of what misfeatures Or cares the year may bring; But unto love Resign your simple natures, To tender love.
Their notes thro' all the jocund spring Were mixed in merry musicking: They sang for love the whole day long, But now their love is all for song.
Knebworth, with all thy glories and all the glad faces and merry hearts I met within your walls--a long, long, farewell!
Some of them attempted to proclaim King Richard in every town they passed through; but they might as well have proclaimed Old King Cole, or any other merry old soul, for they only got laughed at and slaughtered by the inhabitants.
The legislative body had enjoyed a short but not very merry life of fourteen days, when an end was thus put to its too weak existence.
He was a merry fellow beyond the wont of his nation, and he-laughed at the bad weather, as if it had been a good joke on them.
It was a moonlight night, March remembered, and he remembered how he wished he were out in it with those merry fellows.
Her merry willfulness and wit covered a warm heart and a vigorous mind; and both of her great idols understood her and took her seriously.
Could we see her face, be sure we should not know her, For the smile has time for growing in her eyes; And merry go her moments, lulled and stilled in The shroud by the kirk-chime.
Buckland was of a jovial disposition, and always sure to see the humorous side of the facts which were presented to him; and in his social life he was extremely unconventional, and inclined to merry pranks.
Silent, shy, and very pale, she moved about like a dreaming person in the merry circle at Axelholm, and willingly agreed to her mother's proposal to shorten her stay at this place.
Neither have I, Ma'mselle," and the merry Breton face suddenly became woebegone.
The bluff English skipper had caught the key word of the sentence, and the Breton's merry eye supplied a full translation.
Yes; and this old peasant seems a merry old fellow; I like him already.
The cooli too, especially he who hied from the hinterland of Darjiling, was as merry a soul as you meet on a day's march.
For the young female in whose service Frank was enrolled was a plump, merry and matter-of-fact girl, destitute of genius, though possessing all the qualities which adapt woman to fulfill the duties of the domestic relations.
Undines and satyrs, cupids and merry fauns, may spring laughing from under the artist's hand, but it is from the unyielding marble that these slender children of his mirthful hours are carved.
It is all one merry outburst of youth and health, and music and poetry, with the spice of a criticism so rare and genial, that one could almost court dissection at his hands, for the mere exquisitely epicurean bliss of an artistic euthanasia.
He kept himself alive by a merry heart, but his hollow, spasmodic laughter refused to make his body fat.
It was that merry kind of laugh a man makes when he has just had a letter to say that he is ruined and a beggar, and while he is in the act of reading it his wife comes into the room and says, "George, I want ten pounds for a new dress.
He has read the letter, and he has heard his wife's words, and he shrieks with merry laughter--as I did.
Sometimes he calls at an alehouse, where a merry party is in full song, and to them he offers to render harmony, provided they will favour him with a collection.
As the curtain rises, the merry singing of girls is heard from the outside, but the atmosphere in the room is oppressive, and everybody is trying to lose himself in what he has at hand, forgetful of the rest.
Come to the Blue Dove to-night, Jacob There you'll find Rhine wine andmerry maidens!
Pardon me, Prince, but my thoughts were so heavy that I did not wish to bring them into a merry gathering.
His Majesty the King has a lynx eye; no item escapes his notice; and he gives as much attention to the details of everyday garb as to those of clothes for merry or solemn occasion.
I must go to merry Kirkley," said he, "and have my blood let.
All this time and for six weeks later that he dwelt in Nottingham the King could hear nothing of Robin, who seemed to have vanished into the earth with his merry men, though one by one the deer were vanishing too!
This was the work of Robin Hood and his merry men, on whom the king swore vengeance with a great oath.
Away then the Sheriff and Robin did ride, To the forest of merry Sherwood; Then the Sheriff did say, "God keep us this day From a man they call Robin Hood.
Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor When should the cheese be served?
Each man knew that on this day, more than any other day of that long, dark winter, the talk round a well-known hearth in Merry England would be of one who was far, far away in the dark regions of ice and snow.
If I had seen it in daylight, and in Merry England, I would have said it was a kite!
My life is that of the orderly man I described; I make merry on what comes to hand, use what is cheap, and have no yearning for the elaborate and exotic.
Such is the purpose of this my brief reign; therefore the merry noise on every side, the song and the games; therefore the slave and the free as one.
Well, the wine was going, I was striking up one of those Lydian tunes, the farmer standing up to dance, Crocale clapping, and all as merry as could be.
Let them go, and we will makemerry and clap our hands and take our holiday licence, play draughts for nuts in the good old way, elect our kings and do them fealty.
At the same moment the quick eyes of Bell Crawford saw that the hand of the merry girl was rummaging in her pocket, and her face became anxious.
Ringing laughter breaks from merry groups that glance in and out under the shade-trees and the vine-arbors that surround stately old mansions in the valleys of wheat and corn.
The loss of the corps had been but trifling, in spite of their furious charge; and though tired and hungry, those who had not dropped down in their places to sleep, were merry and jubilant.
The older people were careful to make that holiday week a merry time for the children.
Brings it down, you mean, with a snap of his pointer on your fingers," laughed a merry little girl with golden hair and big blue eyes.
No avail Was its cunning, merry play For the only thing, they say, That was left of it that day, Was its tail.
Illustration: Dame Margery Twist goeth to see the merry doings at the Fair.
If I can only make you laugh and be merry for a little while, then my work will be well done, and I will be glad in the doing of it.
The papers say I said: "Merry Christmas, my childern!
On the tower outside, in big electric letters, there was a sign, "Merry Christmas to you and yours.
A lot of them sent their love and a Merry Christmas to you.
The good man is making merry to-night, and has forgotten to bring in his oxen; lucky 't will be if they do not fall a prey to the Black Douglas.
Now perhaps you would like to hear 'When first I came to merry Carlisle'?
And I shall also be pleased to recollect,-- "'When first I came to merry Carlisle.
When next I came to merry Carlisle, Oh sad, sad, seemed the town, an' eerie!
Thus in a moment were baffled the purposes of King Henry for so many guilty years; and, of the three hundred souls that made merry in the moonlit harbor of Balfleur, but one survived to tell the dismal tale.
After a merry time, he was accidentally shot by an arrow.
A merry tune followed the airy prelude; it made the nerves of the old nobles tingle as though they were young again; and, as for the king, his heart began to dance within him.
When first I came to merry Carlisle, Ne'er was a town sae sweetly seeming: The white rose flaunted o'er the wall, The thistled banners far were streaming.
The great sea sobbed before and around them, but merrymusic filled their ears.
It was all he could do to keep from crying "Thank Heaven," and to say a mere "Merry Christmas" instead.
Don't you admire thismerry gathering, for instance?
The three Hindus burst out laughing; and even the grave face of the Takur lit up with a merry smile.
The very thought of the five miles before us filled us with horror, but we would not give up the excursion, and indignantly refused to be tied to our seats, as was suggested by our Hindu companions, who could not suppress their merry laughter.
