Merrily

Examples

• However, Mr. Tupman did not volunteer any such accommodation, and the friends walked on, conversing merrily. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Everybody talked, not very loudly, but merrily, and the canary birds sang shrill in their high-hung cages. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Meanwhile the round game proceeded right merrily. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Clym can sing merrily; why should not I? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• They all drank it merrily, and began the experiment by lounging for the rest of the day. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The boat swept proudly away from the shore, and all went on merrily, as before. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• And that is no argument that a very wise man ever will, she ended, merrily. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• At six the bell rang merrily, and we poured down the staircase, through the carré, along the corridor, into the vestibule. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Helena caught sight of this first, and clapped her hands merrily. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Mary ended merrily, amused with the last notion. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The rest of the evening passed merrily enough in humorous anticipations of my coming life with the two young ladies in Cumberland. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• We are the New Argonauts, he said merrily, with the affectation of classicism which distinguished him; we sail for the Colchian strand. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.

Edited by Colin