and I laughed, a feeble, bitter laugh; a shrill, cackling laugh, that shocked my dimming senses.

" The Colonel laughed a little ruefully.

Startled by the sweet, baby voice, Evadne looked up to find a pair of laughing blue eyes peeping sympathetically at her.

" Barney read one or two phrases of his composition to the indulgent ear of Jack and the poet, over which they laughed a good deal.

But she only laughed gayly at the accident, and wringing out her wet skirt, said: "It doesn't matter in the least, if we only find what we're in search of.

[He falls to tickle himself, his Head, his Ears, his Armpits, Hands, Sides, and Soles of his Feet; making ridiculous Cries and Noises of Laughing several ways, with Antick Leaps and Skips, at last falls down as dead.

Never in my life did I see anything so sightly!" "Good land!" laughed the man, with a note of impatience in his voice.

" She laughed good-naturedly.

"Yes," he laughed dryly.

Here also is an adorable Madonna and laughing Child, beyond anything in Florence for sheer gaiety if not mischief, which the South Kensington authorities call a Rossellino but Herr Bode a Desiderio da Settignano.

Cos I deserves it.' "They all laughed agin, and Bill Chambers laughed so 'arty that 'e joggled Peter Gubbins's arm and upset 'is beer.

As from time to time we exchanged greetings with them, we were struck with their comely health and blithe waysparticularly with their fine teeth, as they laughed us the time of day, or stopped their wagons to gossip a moment with the two outlandish packmenthe very teeth one would expect in an apple-country.

Anderson had laughed down her fears, and Lenore, absorbed in her own tumult, had been easily satisfied.

" "And where is she now?" "Why are you so very inquisitive, Mr. Gregg?" laughed the handsome girl.

'Now shall I open the door and let your missis in, or would you rather stay where you are in peace and quietness?' "I saw my missis jump at the key, and Bob and the others, laughing fit to split their sides, 'olding her back.

" She laughed; the slow, soft laugh which made Howard think suddenly, strangely, of a sleepy tigress he had once watched in a rajah's zoo, as she lay basking in the sun: a thing of softness and beauty anddeath.

"So he has spoken to you, has he?" laughed her father.

Nay, I was glad to have something to forgive in the beginning, I with my unforgivable mission, and would have laughed the matter off without another word if Bob had let me.

If the Talent of Ridicule were employed to laugh Men out of Vice and Folly, it might be of some Use to the World; but instead of this, we find that it is generally made use of to laugh Men out of Virtue and good Sense, by attacking every thing that is Solemn and Serious, Decent and Praiseworthy in Human Life.

Then said the Duke, laughing in his madness, 'Behold, lady, the power of a woman's beauty, for I loved a noble brother once, a spotless knight whose honour reached high as heaven, but thou hast made of him a something foul and base, traitor to me and to his own sweet name, and 'tis for this I will requite thee!'

anaesthetic agent, opium, ether, chloroform, chloral; nitrous oxide, laughing gas; exhilarating gas, protoxide of nitrogen; refrigeration.

So suddenly had she appeared, that it was as if she had risen out of the rippling river, and the ripples still seemed to undulate on her sunny hair and laughing dimpled face: so fresh and bright and fair she seemed in that glad June morning.

There were several Wind Creatures standing there, laughing in shrill, glad voices, pointing with their arms, and flapping their purple wings.

' I heard him chuckling to himself, and the others laughed loudly too, when he was telling how he palmed me off; but 'he laughs loudest who laughs last', thought I, and should have chuckled too, were it not for making the coffin creak.

The chemists, with Berzelius and Liebig at their head, at first laughed this idea to scorn; but in 1843, a man then very young, who has since performed the unexampled feat of attaining to high eminence alike in Mathematics, Physics, and Physiology I speak of the illustrious Helmholtzreduced the matter to the test of experiment by a method alike elegant and conclusive.