On the day the circus was finally going to hit town — and yes, technically, the center ring is in Chicago as the Yankees set up their trapezes there, but you will get a whiff of the elephants from pretty much anywhere in the league — it's tempting to think that Alex Rodriguez and his merry band of fellow suspected Biogenesis clients have swallowed the sports world whole.
Amy Poehler directs a merry band of fellow "Saturday Night Live" alums on a bacchanalian bender.
The Binders meme, perpetuated by the media, was followed by the birth of the Big Bird movement after Governor Romney ruffled feathers and suggested defunding Big Bird and his fellow merry Muppets on PBS.
Alcoholism: There is a reference, reported by the Stratford vicar of the time, to a "merry meeting" between Shakespeare and fellow playwright Ben Jonson, in which they "drank too hard, for Shakespeare died of a feavour there contracted".
The merry laughter of the golden winged fellows wrought in miniature size as a pair of earrings is irresistible.
Mr. Sizer is a largish, shambling fellow with shaggy brows and merry little eyes, an ironist with a deft sense of human folly.
Mind you, the real joy of that scene was that Howard Keel and the other fellows found time for a merry brawl, destroying what they had created in five minutes flat.
Atlanta's Ying Yang Twins contribute a merry, foul-mouthed track called "Ho! Ho!," and their fellow Atlantan Killer Mike snarls through "A Christmas Grind," his tribute to "Carol of the Bells".
He follows Bai from his origins on the western frontier to his rambling travels as a young man, which were filled with striving but also with merry abandon, as he raised cups of wine with friends and fellow poets.
