The place was overrun with negroes and dogs, and scarce a night went by that there was not merrymaking in the house with the neighbors.
The man at whose bidding this merrymaking was held stood in a corner watching with folded arms, and none to look at him might know that he was playing for a stake.
By sunset the merrymaking had developed into indiscriminate boarding.
Hotep frowned and gave over any hope that Kenkenes would join the merrymaking that night.
And with the passing of the game November passed also and before she knew it Christmas was upon her, and Christmas hitherto for Peggy had meant merely gifts from Daddy Neil and a merrymaking for the servants.
The garrison was merrymaking below, and, almost before the disarmed revellers had any warning, the Black Douglas was in the midst of them.
The garrison was to have leave for merrymaking and indulging in revelry.
Why had he left his abode and descended upon the peaceful merrymaking of the Terminalia?
And the Trojans, seeing the encampment before their walls broken for the first time in so many years, and the plain that the enemy's tents had whitened clear, broke into joy and merrymaking such as they had not known for so long.
There was a call in the ringing of the hammer that drew him on faster than the merrymaking of Pan had, or the sound of battle.
It wasmerrymaking with a vengeance, he told himself, and the fiddling, the piping, and the merrymaking at Summercourt Fair were nothing to it!
Great festivities and merrymakingwas the order of the time.
New Year merrymaking is as old as the history of England.
To these recalcitrant spirits, license and a rough sort of merrymaking became the order of the hour.
There are no boisterous splashing and merrymaking as the youths sit in the long wooden bathtubs.
After this noisy merrymaking a real pig was produced, and before an august company of most of the castle folk the four champions "attacked the pig.
Doubtless under any social conditions gatherings for merrymaking would have arisen, but, by reason of the constitution of early society, they necessarily assume a religious character.
And he would run up on to the sandbanks and gaze out over the sea; but it was not there, and inland there was no merrymaking that he knew of, and there were no birds of passage flying through the air at this time of year.
And there, friend Carse, is the object which is to concern us.
Here stood a great oak tree with branches spreading broadly around, beneath which was a seat of green moss where Robin Hood was wont to sit at feast and at merrymaking with his stout men about him.
But long before this merrymaking had begun, the Sheriff and his new servant Reynold Greenleaf were in the Castle of Nottingham.
It was past midnight, the kilns on both sides of the river were put out, but in the meadow below and in the tavern the merrymaking still went on.
Knowing that cheerfulness would help greatly in keeping his men well and willing, Clark encouraged feasting and merrymaking as all were gathered at night around the blazing logs.
New Year's day, ushered in with the firing of muskets, was another occasion for merrymaking and hilarity in the settlement.
The merrymaking in celebration of the return of the hunt was not yet at an end.
As themerrymaking lasts for two or three weeks, the exhaustion of the musician at the end of it may be readily conceived.
Any pair who failed thus to ransom themselves were not suffered to share the merrymaking at the great stone in the forest; and a pretence was made of burning them in small fires kindled before their own doors.
He set them a great feast, and there was merrymaking all day long.
Sidenote: =The Dutch liked merrymaking=] The Dutch liked merrymaking and good times far better than did their Puritan neighbors.
The Final Exposure of Jingle, and a Christmas Merrymaking 233 VI The Celebrated Case of Bardell Against Pickwick.
The Christmas merrymaking was all too soon over, and as Mrs. Bardell's lawsuit against Mr. Pickwick was shortly to be tried, the Pickwickians returned regretfully to the city.
Marshalled into bands, they accompanied the king and the army on their most distant expeditions, and stepped to the fore wherever there was question of merrymaking or entertainment.
Fond of festivity; given tomerrymaking or reveling.
