Do we say marry or merry

marry 8095 occurrences

Marry, the blood upon me is that of the vilest outlaw that ever trod the woodlands, and one whom I have slain this day, albeit not without wound to myself.

"Peace, Tuck," said he, "didst thou not promise me, ere thou camest here, that thou wouldst put a check upon thy tongue?" "Ay, marry," grumbled the other, "but 'a did not think to have a hard- footed knave trample all over my poor toes as though they were no more than so many acorns in the forest.

Marry, I must take this matter in hand and do what thou couldst not do, Sheriff, to wit, clear the forest of him and his band.

" "Marry, Sir Hubert," quoth the King, "this pleaseth me well.

"You must marry her," said the Count.

You know it was always his hope that you and Juanita should marry.

For good or ill, for happiness or misery, she was destined to marry Marcos de Sarrion if the whole church of Rome should rise up and curse his soul and hers for the deed.

What do you mean, Marcos?" "We can take you away, but you must marry me.

Marcos, I would rather marry you than thatif it is necessary.

"Well, I will marry you if there is no help for it.

"She says she is going to marry a soldier.

To review this towering regiment was his daily pleasure, and to perpetuate it was so much his care, that when he met a tall woman, he immediately commanded one of his Titanian retinue to marry her, that they might propagate procerity, and produce heirs to the father's habiliments.

The Lavingtons, at least, would find no temptation in his wealth: and Argemoneshe is too proud, too luxurious, to marry a beggar.

They never lay by a farthing; and I don't see how they can, when their club-money's paid, and their insides are well filled.' 'Do you mean to say that they actually have not as much to eat after they marry?' 'Indeed and I do, sir.

'That's a worse trick still, sir; for it tempts the poor thoughtless boys to go and marry the first girl they can get hold of; and it don't want much persuasion to make them do that at any time.'

"Why then the lovely Princess would open the gate, an' marry you of course, an' live happy ever after, an' all would be revelry an' joy.

I am not to be your mother; you will live single, if I marry.

'I should indeed be a fool, to proceed as I do, and mean matrimony!'However, since you are thrown upon a fool,' says she, 'marry the fool at the first opportunity; and though I doubt that this man will be the most unmanageable of fools, as all witty and vain fools are, take him as a punishment, since you cannot as a reward.

I cannot marry.

This I know, that were I to marry this lady, he would rather settle upon her all he has a mind to settle, than upon me.

Another reason why a LOVELACE should not wish to marry a CLARISSA.

Logotheti was a young Greek financier who lived in Paris and wanted to marry her.

'It is easier to cook well than to marry at all, even badly!'

But on mature reflection she was sure that she did not wish to marry any one for the present.

Unless she be a hunchback, an unmarried royal princess is almost as great an exception as a white raven or a cat without a tail; a primadonna without a husband alive, dead, or divorced, is hardly more common; and poor girls marry to live.

merry 4894 occurrences

Their unmodulated voices grated on his ear, in contrast with the liquid softness of Rosabella's tones, and the merry, musical tinkling of Floracita's prattle.

1. Old Triton must forsake his dear, The lark doth chant her cheerful lay; Aurora smiles with merry cheer, To welcome in a happy day.

Marry, because you told me a merry goose case, I'll bestow a fat goose on ye, and God give you good luck.

True, true, I made myself merry with this epitaph upon such a fool's tomb thus athus, thus: plague brought this manfoh, I have forgottenO, thus, plague brought this man (so, so, so), unto his burial, because, because, because (hem, hem)because he would not buy an urinal.

How now, Memory, so merry?

Our sailors were drunk; even those among us who had been more cautious, and whose heads were stronger, were, to say the least, very merry.

In later times, as in the days of our Merry Monarch, attractive ladies were able to found ducal families by placing their charms at the service of a royal debauchee.

Merry menagerie, September 15-20. 1947.

Merry menagerie, September 22-27, 1947.

Merry menagerie, September 29 October 4, 1947.

Walt Disney Productions (PWH); 7Oct74; R589189. R589190. Merry menagerie, October 6-11 1947.

Merry menagerie, October 13-18, 1947.

Merry menagerie, October 20-25, 1947.

R589503. Merry menagerie, October 27-November 1, 1947.

Merry menagerie, November 3-8, 1947.

Merry menagerie.

Merry menagerie, April 19-24, 1948.

Merry menagerie, April 26-May 1, 1948.

Merry menagerie, May 03-08, 1948.

Merry menagerie, May 10-15, 1948.

She livessoon she will waken; straightway Will ope her pretty eyes,glad she Will prattle merry, laughing gay!

Sudden, through the stillness Rings a merry cry And his jingling troika Drives a reveller by!

Dies in silent distance Sleighbell clangor strong, And the careless, merry, Sorrow-troubling song.

TWO-AN'-SIX Merry voices chatterin', Nimble feet dem patterin', Big an' little, faces gay, Happy day dis market day.

"Ah, then, good cheer an' many a merry jest.

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