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MERRILY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a joyous manner
Example:
they shouted happily
Synonyms:
blithely; gayly; happily; jubilantly; merrily; mirthfully
Classified under:
Pertainym:
merry (offering fun and gaiety)
Context examples:
The captain understood my raillery very well, and merrily replied with the old English proverb, that he doubted mine eyes were bigger than my belly, for he did not observe my stomach so good, although I had fasted all day; and, continuing in his mirth, protested he would have gladly given a hundred pounds, to have seen my closet in the eagle’s bill, and afterwards in its fall from so great a height into the sea; which would certainly have been a most astonishing object, worthy to have the description of it transmitted to future ages: and the comparison of Phaëton was so obvious, that he could not forbear applying it, although I did not much admire the conceit.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I would still be merrily disposed at times; and as my pleasures were (to say the least) undignified, and I was not only well known and highly considered, but growing towards the elderly man, this incoherency of my life was daily growing more unwelcome.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
With their going it seemed as if some evil presence had departed, for the dogs frisked about and barked merrily as they made sudden darts at their prostrate foes, and turned them over and over and tossed them in the air with vicious shakes.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The archer settled himself to it like one who had known what it was to find good food scarce; but his tongue still went as merrily as his teeth.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And in the morning he awoke and the hill was gone; so he went merrily to the king, and told him that now that it was removed he must give him the princess.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
A moody smile that had overspread his features cleared off as he said this merrily, and he was his own frank, winning self again.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Within a short time she was walking briskly toward the Emerald City, her silver shoes tinkling merrily on the hard, yellow road-bed.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
"As I was saying—what was I saying?" She broke off abruptly and laughed merrily at her predicament.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
“And they made themselves many inventions,” I began merrily, then paused to sniff the air.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
A fine sport for you, Sir Charles, with your pleasant twenty-mile drive into the country and your luncheon-basket and your wines, and so merrily back to London in the cool of the evening, with a well-fought battle to talk over.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
