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
The world premiere of Merry Mount was given in Ann Arbor in concert form, climax of a four-day festival.
From Time Magazine Archive
Merry Mount is anathema to the Puritans because it is an enclave of happiness, fostering a live-and-let-live philosophy, indulging in such rites as dancing around the Maypole.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ann Arbor critics prophesied a great success for Merry Mount at the Metropolitan next winter.
From Time Magazine Archive
If the abolition excitement had not drafted off the rising forces, there might have been a Merry Mount, an epidemic of crime or insanity, or a mob of some sort.
From Emerson and Other Essays by Chapman, John Jay
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