Crossword-Solution: MERRIMENT 9 letters, 24 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Though perhaps I should have been a very good Christian if you pretty women hadn’t made me an idolater.” Bathsheba moved on to hide the irrepressible dimplings of merriment.

But Pearl’s laugh, when she was caught, though full of merriment and music, made her mother more doubtful than before.

But being thoroughly good-natured, and not much caring what they laughed at, so that they laughed at any rate, he encouraged them in their merriment, and passed the bottle joyously.

Sir Andrew’s eyes followed the pretty little figure, until it had quite disappeared, then they met Lady Blakeney’s with unassumed merriment.

Will he succeed at last? Will that stubborn door be suddenly flung open? Will a group of joyous children, the young ones of the house, come dancing, shouting, laughing, into the open air, and cluster round the show-box, looking with eager merriment at the puppets, and tossing each a copper for long-tailed Mammon, the monkey, to pick up? But to us, who know the inner heart of the Seven Gables as well as its exterior face, there is a ghastly effect in this repetition of light popular tunes at its door-step.