Usage of "make merry"

Celebrate noisily, often indulging in drinking; engage in uproarious festivities.

Uso de make merry em inglês

These men eat and make merry; let it be their funeral feast. 
 Allan Quatermain 

Nana was struck and did her best to make merry about it. 
 Four Short Stories By Emile Zola 

To make merry in camp is not all of a ranger's life. 
 Sixes and Sevens 

And Eumaeus answered: Eat, stranger, and make merry with what thou hast. 
 The Story of the Odyssey 

Eat, luckless stranger, and make merry with such fare as is here. 
 The Odyssey of Homer 

Then soothly shall we make merry o'er butts of good October brewing. 
 Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 

So, now you have come, you can help us make merry, Schönleben. 
 The Young Carpenters of Freiberg / A Tale of the Thirty Years' W... 

Photo: Wikicommons Shares continued to make merry, hitting a high in September 1929. 
 Radio NZ 

I could not make merry while he wept; my heart would weep also. 
 Other Things Being Equal 

Hereupon they sat down and began to eat and drink and make merry. 
 The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 2 

He is court jester, at whose quips the generations make merry. 
 A Hero and Some Other Folks 

Enter, and make merry with us, and to-morrow go your way. 
 Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green 

At home we always eat, drink and make merry, for to-morrow never comes. 
 The Man from Brodney's 

Therefore, Teule, make merry while you may, and die bravely when you must. 
 Montezuma's Daughter 

Be a good boy, and make merry-itis my wish. 
 The lady elizabeth 

But do not fear, we shall make merry at Chelsea. 
 The lady elizabeth 

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Make merry ao longo do tempo

Make merry nas variantes da língua

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Significados de make merry em inglês