merry dancers
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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
She attempted to meditate, but with every thought of duty came memories of the festal garlands, and the blazing lamps, and the flitting figures of the merry dancers.
From Choice Readings for the Home Circle by Anonymous
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)
Glowing embers and blazing sparks—crumbs from its table—began to shower upon the merry dancers, and they fell back with blanched faces and trembling limbs.
From Chicago's Awful Theater Horror by Various
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
