But so far, the season has been less than merry.

They would go on their own merry way you see.

He would use her and then go on his merry way.

And then we were so merry all the way home!

We had been very merry with them a little while ago, to be sure.

So they sat down, and were soon making merry together.

They seemed very merry and to be playing some game.

I believe in a merry time even if it is a short one.

So he played with the child the whole day long, and they were very merry.

Come in my merry men, and what are your names?

My mother just smiled at me and went on her merry way.

But they were all three of the same merry spirit.

It just came, passed through us, and went on its merry way.

One cannot write of medical life and be merry over it.

Even if you are only one more dream, have merry.

But there was nothing merry about him or his gun.

Together let us be merry, for we know the worst.

While I am a god, let me drink and be merry.

The trouble is that they might be just merry when you meet them.

Which probably meant someone was waiting for him to answer before going on their merry way.

In my family you shall have reason to be merry.

I was angry with them, that they could be merry.

We could give you a merry time on that score alone.

"Have you had so many that were merry and happy?"

It makes the world of five miles round quite merry.

He seems to get merrier when he's closer to a battle."

I can make allowances for gentlemen who get merry in their liquor; but let there be an end to this."

Another old saw says that it's the job of the Federal Reserve to take away the punch bowl when the party starts to get merry.

Most of the gang is out getting merry until they bump into Woody and Jennifer.

"But it still wouldn't get Merry killed," Rhys said.

He remembered that, although there had been many skins of wine opened, and everyone was drinking, no-one got merry from the wine.

"Get Merry out of here," said Galen.

And if they tell me they didn't know about this, you'll get merry Hail Columbia for not telling 'em.

My friend and I settled ourselves onto the snow and uncorked a well-chilled bottle of wine in the hope of getting merry.

As Angelou stated, people would "sing and swing and get merry like Christmas so one would have some fuel with which to live the rest of the week".

GETTING MERRY (The Wish novella) - 2002 (St. Martin's)

When he gets merry with wine he promises her all kinds of gifts, including the me, or divine decrees which, in Kramer's words, are 'the basis of the culture pattern of Sumerian civilization'.

He was walking stiff; she heard a man whisper that he had got a sword-thrust in the thigh, and ridden right on through it, and got merry hell from Philippos the surgeon for it afterward.

Nevertheless, Federal Reserve chairmen are supposed to be spoilsports; in the immortal words of William McChesney Martin, the Fed's job is to take away the punch bowl just when the party starts to get merry.

We all sort of swarmed around then and swatted the kid on the arm some and he even cried a little until we poured some beer over his head and pretty soon it began to look like the night was going to get merry again after all.

So this week, with the party getting merry, Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Fed, said in Congressional testimony that, like his predecessor, Paul A. Volcker, he has been monitoring the takeover trend and is concerned about the risks not only to the banks but "to the economy more broadly."

Though nobody can deny his almost inhuman capacity for ale, and while he may get merry enough when he has imbibed a skinful sufficient to sink six men in a jabbering heap to their knees, he is never said to be out of control or dispossessed of his wits.