merriments
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If as much by wishful thinking as by design, it had both the U.S. women’s and men’s national teams on center stage in each of those merriments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2019
Yet despite the merriments, Christmas can be a stressful time for presidents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 23, 2015
But court is always May, buds out in masques, Breaks into feather'd merriments, and flowers In silken pageants.
From Queen Mary and Harold by Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
In the midst of the merriments of the mutations of Time, Pierre hath ringed himself in with the grief of Eternity.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
The solemnity of Good-Friday ends, it appeared, at ten o'clock on Saturday morning, and from that time the merriments of Easter have their commencement.
From The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815 by G. R. (George Robert) Gleig
