merry-andrew

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Who of all my readers is unacquainted with Goldsmith's admirable stories of the sailor with the wooden leg, and the poor half-starved Merry-Andrew!

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 by Various

One nobleman of great abilities wanders about as a Merry-Andrew.

From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

What with the hum of human voices, the lowing of cattle, the squeaking of pigs, and the laughter caused by the Merry-Andrew, the market-place was in very great confusion.

From True Stories of History and Biography by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Friedrich Wilhelm had a variety of Merry-Andrew Raths of the Gundling sort, though none ever came up to Gundling, or approached him, in worth as a Merry-Andrew.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 05 by Carlyle, Thomas

Even the school-boys left the Merry-Andrew, and came to gaze, with wide open eyes, at this tall, strange-looking old man.

From True Stories of History and Biography by Hawthorne, Nathaniel