Lexicographical Neighbors of Merrymen
Literary usage of Merrymen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"Arriving at the first residence in their way, they knock at the door, and claim
the privilege of Christmas in the admission of St George and his ' merrymen. ..."
2. The Book of Nursery Rhymes, Tales and Fables. by Lawrence Lovechild (1858)
"Dance, Foreman, dance, Dance, ye merrymen, every one; But Foreman, he can dance
alone, Foreman, he can dance alone. Dance, Middleman, dance, Dance, ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1894)
"Certain waterfalls in England are still called merrymen by the local peasantry,
and one of RL Stevenson's clever tales is called ' The Merry Men,' taking ..."
4. A Book of Old Ballads edited by Cora Morton (1917)
"And to his merrymen thus said he: 50 ' I have asked grace of a ... 'Come, follow
me, my merrymen all, We will scorn one foot away to fly; It never shall be ..."
5. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child, George Lyman Kittredge (1886)
"After 3 : He dressed himself up in a suit of green, And his merrymen all in white
... 11 She dressed herself up in a suit of white, And her merrymen all in ..."
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