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  • Michael, full grown, mature, was so merry-hearted an individual that he found all delight in interminable romps with Scraps.

    CHAPTER XI 2010

  • And Michael the merry-hearted, who fought like a lion and forgave and forgot like a man, laid his neck hair smoothly down, wagged his stump tail, smiled with his eyes and ears and mouth, and kissed with his tongue the hand with which a short time before he had been at war.

    CHAPTER VI 2010

  • Brown-skinned, with luminous brown eyes and black, their features large and regular, they showed all the signs of being as good-natured, merry-hearted, and soft-tempered as the climate.

    THE BONES OF KAHEKILI 2010

  • He, who had been so merry-hearted, even merrier-hearted than his brother

    CHAPTER XXVI 2010

  • Frolicking in the surf or catching butterflies, formerly fatigued, downtrodden young women reemerged as “care-free, merry-hearted sprites.”

    Leisure and Recreation in the United States. 2009

  • “No, thank God!” he said, shaking his head: “you are a merry-hearted man.”

    A Raw Youth 2003

  • The good dame Antonia fulfils faithfully her contract in regard to my board and lodging; and as I am easily pleased, I find my fare excellent; while the merry-hearted little Dolores keeps my apartment in order, and officiates as handmaid at meal-times.

    The Alhambra 2002

  • The good dame Antonia fulfils faithfully her contract in regard to my board and lodging; and as I am easily pleased, I find my fare excellent; while the merry-hearted little Dolores keeps my apartment in order, and officiates as handmaid at meal-times.

    The Alhambra 2002

  • Don Pedro Gil: his progeny grew up a thriving and merry-hearted, though short and bandy-legged generation, while Senora Gil, befringed, belaced, and betasselled from her head to her heels, with glittering rings on every finger, became a model of slattern fashion and finery.

    The Alhambra 2002

  • Don Pedro Gil: his progeny grew up a thriving and merry-hearted, though short and bandy-legged generation, while Senora Gil, befringed, belaced, and betasselled from her head to her heels, with glittering rings on every finger, became a model of slattern fashion and finery.

    The Alhambra 2002

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