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  • Have we discussed yet Vargo Hoat and his merrymen :D?

    Garret Dillahunt interested in Thrones? 2009

  • Galloper Troppler and Hurleyquinn the zitherer of the past with his merrymen all, zimzim, zimzim.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • And as of yore, -- driving up the road those merrymen in the carts singing that well remembered "En roulant":

    The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making Wilfrid Ch��teauclair

  • Wight Willie of Aikwood, merrymen much like Robin Hood and Little John, and as he remembered the romances he and his friend had read in the hills, so he was now treasuring up wild bits of scenery with all the ardor of a poet or a painter.

    Historic Boyhoods Rupert Sargent Holland 1915

  • Queen and her maidens made a court of beauty that was famed wherever mermaids and merrymen lived.

    Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks William Elliot Griffis 1885

  • Indeed they wished to make their pool a model, for all respectable mermaids and merrymen, for ten leagues around.

    Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks William Elliot Griffis 1885

  • He owned an island near the river mouth, where the young mermaids held their picnics and parties and received the visits of young merrymen.

    Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks William Elliot Griffis 1885

  • All of these were sober folks and attended to the business which occupies all well brought up mermaids and merrymen.

    Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks William Elliot Griffis 1885

  • Demas comes back, calls up his merrymen, and has a battle-royal with the enraged legionaries, which puts the critics of the gallery into a frenzy of delight and assures the success of the spectacle.

    Castilian Days John Hay 1870

  • And then --- if ye be indeed sic a Lord of Glenallan as I hae heard of in _my_ day --- make your merrymen gather the thorn, and the brier, and the green hollin, till they heap them as high as the house-riggin, and burn! burn! burn! the auld witch Elspeth, and a 'that can put ye in mind that sic a creature ever crawled upon the land!' '

    The Antiquary 1845

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