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Rostov laughed so loud and merrily that Denisov, in his bedroom, felt envious and Natasha could not help joining in.

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 Meanings and Examples of MERRILY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
merrily
 ad.  in a joyous manner
Classic Sentence: (44 in 3 pages)
1  Katerina Sergyevna has a son, little Nikolai, while Mitya runs about merrily and talks fluently.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
2  There was a general movement as the princess, smiling and talking merrily to everyone at once, sat down and gaily arranged herself in her seat.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
3  Pierre smiled, looking about him merrily.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX
4  The little princess had grown stouter during this time, but her eyes and her short, downy, smiling lip lifted when she began to speak just as merrily and prettily as ever.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVI
5  The little princess got up, rang for the maid, and hurriedly and merrily began to devise and carry out a plan of how Princess Mary should be dressed.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
6  The campfires crackled and the soldiers' songs resounded even more merrily than on the previous night.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X
7  Rostov laughed so loud and merrily that Denisov, in his bedroom, felt envious and Natasha could not help joining in.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I
8  She did not now say those former terrible words to him, but looked simply, merrily, and inquisitively at him.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III
9  Believing their danger past, they sprang from their ambush and, chirruping something in their shrill little voices and holding up their skirts, their bare little sunburned feet scampered merrily and quickly across the meadow grass.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V
10  The sunshine from behind the hill did not penetrate into the cutting and there it was cold and damp, but above Pierre's head was the bright August sunshine and the bells sounded merrily.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XX
11  But before he reached the foot of the knoll he was met by a dense crowd of Russian soldiers who, stumbling, tripping up, and shouting, ran merrily and wildly toward the battery.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXII
12  The captain was so naively and good-humoredly gay, so real, and so pleased with himself that Pierre almost winked back as he looked merrily at him.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXIX
13  Stepan Arkadyevitch, who had long known that Levin was in love with his sister-in-law, Kitty, gave a hardly perceptible smile, and his eyes sparkled merrily.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
14  Meanwhile men ran to and fro, talking merrily together, their steps crackling on the platform as they continually opened and closed the big doors.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 30
15  Everyone had something to say in censure or ridicule of the luckless Madame Maltishtcheva, and the conversation crackled merrily, like a burning faggot-stack.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 6
Example Sentence:
1  Somebody, unseen, rang the bell merrily; then Adele (who had insisted on being one of her guardian's party), bounded forward, scattering round her the contents of a basket of flowers she carried on her arm.
2  After these came the royal children; there were ten of them, and the little dears came jumping merrily along hand in hand, in couples.