merrymakings

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The elders among the people tell the stories at their merrymakings around the camp-fires and within their primitive houses, to amuse and instruct the youth and children.

From Laos Folk-Lore of Farther India by Fleeson, Katherine Neville

We enjoyed cosy chats, and yet you no more desired or wished to be present at my social functions than you desired me to enter into all your merrymakings and pleasures.

From A Woman of the World Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters by Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

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 Harrison, Constance Cary

His violin went everywhere with him, and in more than one of the little towns along the big river, people began to demand the boy fiddler who could make such gay music for their merrymakings.

From The Windy Hill by Meigs, Cornelia

I may remind you that a man who would fain return unto and enjoy his own self ought not to indulge so much in merrymakings and festivities, but to think on death.

From The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti by Symonds, John Addington