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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Merry
 
  Merry as a haystack sleeper.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Merry as a two-year-old.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Merry as cap and can.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Merry as crickets in an oven.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Merry as flowers in May.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Merry as mice in malt.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Merry as spring.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Merry as the maids.
            —John Bunyan		  8
  Merry as a kitten.
            —Robert Burns		  9
  Merry as a marriage bell.
            —Lord Byron		  10
  As merry as a fiddler.
            —The Christmas Prince		  11
  Merry as the month of May.
            —Barry Cornwall		  12
  Merry as popinjay.
            —Michael Drayton		  13
  Merry as birds on the bough.
            —Frederick the Great		  14
  As merry as king in his delight.
            —Robert Greene		  15
  Merry as an alimony bell.
            —O. Henry		  16
  As merry as a pie.
            —King’s Halfe-penny-worth of Wit in a Penny-worth of Paper		  17
  Merry as larks.
            —Walter Savage Landor		  18
  Merry as spring groves full of birds.
            —Gerald Massey		  19
  Merry as it were June.
            —Dinah Maria Mulock		  20
  Merry as singing birds.
            —Charles Eliot Norton		  21
  Merry as three beans in a blue bladder.
            —Poor Robin’s Almanack		  22
  As merry as a grig.
            —English Proverb		  23
  As merry as the maltman.
            —Scottish Proverb		  24
  Merry as the day is long.
            —William Shakespeare		  25
As merry, as when our nuptial day was done,
And tapers burned to bedward.
            —William Shakespeare		  26
  Merry as crickets.
            —William Shakespeare		  27
  Merry as an ape.
            —Jonathan Swift		  28
 
 
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