merry dancers

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The piper felt the inspiration, up mounted the notes to the highest and liveliest measure, and away again flew the merry dancers under all the impulse of the new tune.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various

The heavy baggage-wagons of commerce, the light cars of pleasure, merry dancers, and sad funeral processions, have all used that way, and each footfall has beaten the once loose soil a little firmer.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII by Maclaren, Alexander

These streamers, or "merry dancers," as they are sometimes termed, were at times peculiarly bright.

From The World of Ice by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

With the beam of the rising moon again ascended these merry dancers, the Spirits of the Well, and commenced their gambols on the green sod.

From Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 by Jones, James Athearn

Sometimes it assumes a wavy appearance, and the streams of light are then called merry dancers.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah