Merry Mount
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Even as the Puritans were striving to build an austere theocracy in New England, they were defied by a character named Thomas Morton, whose Merry Mount colonists disported themselves in free-spirited revelry.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 2, 2014
If Plymouth without Merry Mount was a mistake, Merry Mount without Plymouth could be a disaster.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nearly 31 centuries later, the Merry Mount case no longer seems so open and shut.
From Time Magazine Archive
Consider those maimed excuses for Merry Mount that have come to serve, ever so ineptly, as its substitute.
From Time Magazine Archive
From the moment that they truly loved, they had subjected themselves to earth's doom of care and sorrow, and troubled joy, and had no more a home at Merry Mount.
From From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
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