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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The drinking and merriment were not enough to take his mind off Dinah.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For his old-fashioned masculinity is the cause of continual merriment on my part.
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He still wore his expression of vacuous merriment , which must have been habitual rather than assumed in my honour.
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I mentioned this to my parents over lunch and it naturally caused much merriment .
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Or was the whole episode simply an occasion for our own informed superior merriment ?
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Some attended secret Christmas Day church services, while many more continued to celebrate the day with traditional feasting and merriment .
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The London skyline, the Post Office Tower, the sounds of distant merriment .
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Weeping with merriment , gleeful through and through, she never relaxed her grip.
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When he pulls it out, the others explode with merriment .