merrymakings
Example Sentences
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In a silent, undemonstrative manner of his own McClintock gathered the loose money in and about Vesper; a shrewd bargainer, ungiven to merrymakings; one who knew how to keep dollars at work.
From Copper Streak Trail by Eugene Manlove Rhodes
His type, as it was found on both sides of the Border, is Autolycus, whom Shakespeare must often have met in the flesh about the 'footpath ways,' and at the rustic merrymakings of Warwickshire.
From The Balladists Famous Scots Series by John Geddie
Among these men we can scarcely believe there were many festivities or merrymakings.
From Stories of New Jersey by Frank Richard Stockton
Sometimes, for days together, she would be left alone in the house, while Dame Martha and Margaret dressed themselves up in all their finery, and went off to fairs and merrymakings in the neighboring town.
From The Old-Fashioned Fairy Book by Constance Cary Harrison
The king has heard of your merrymakings and of your alliance with the English king.
From Boycotted And Other Stories by Talbot Baines Reed
