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Examples
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Who love with a love lifelong, O! It's the song of a merrymaid, peerly proud
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For it tells of a righted wrong, O! It's a song of a merrymaid, once so gay,
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He see'd a merrymaid sure 'nough; but he never took her home.
Major Vigoureux Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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'An' you couldn 'marry me,' says the merrymaid, with a kind o 'sob,' because I'm married already, an 'the mother of two as pretty children as ever you wished to see.
Major Vigoureux Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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"I don't want to marry no woman with a tail like a fish, nor no woman that makes thikky noise with her breathin '," maintained Jan. "That's to say, if merrymaid it were, which I doubts.
Major Vigoureux Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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