Sentence examples for source of merriment from inspiring English sources

The next two wickets were a source of merriment to the fans revelling in England's domination.

The run-out has been a feature of Australian innings recently and the source of merriment, fury and controversy.

Yetta's unfailing wit and humor were a constant source of merriment for her friends and family; she loved and valued her family above all.

Back when the Tribune was operated by the galumphing conservative Colonel Robert R. McCormick, it was the quintessential Republican newspaper, in a way that one didn't have to read its editorial page to discern, and the self-conscious journalistic impressiveness of its physical setting was considered a source of merriment.

Everyone swam off the boat except Deitch (another source of merriment to Bickerton, who swims like a porpoise), and by late afternoon, when Protect Me from What I Want pulled into Hydra's harbor and we loaded our luggage onto donkeys for the ascent to the Joannous' place, about halfway up a steeply terraced hillside, Holzer's message had lost some of its ironic bite.

I tell him he ought to try my sausage balls, a moniker that immediately becomes the source of great merriment.

Bellew played the part of "Pretty" Ricky Conlan in that film, a source of much merriment (and no little pride) to his friends.

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time To let the punishment fit the crime The punishment fit the crime And make each prisoner pent Unwillingly represent A source of innocent merriment!

For some reason the idea that Italian opera might be able to deal with the Wells Fargo Trading Company and a hero-outlaw called Dick Johnson has been a source of snide merriment.

"I can come meet you for brunch — and pick up some medical marijuana!" Leaving aside those people undergoing chemotherapy or suffering from arthritis or the other miseries that marijuana relieves, the legal-if-you-have-a-prescription California pot law seems to be a source of endless merriment.

His Twitter spat with two senior Australian journalists, Robert Craddock and Malcolm Conn, was a source of pre-Ashes merriment to those looking forward to the summer of 2013 on this side of the planet.