But when by help of spectacles the Crone Discern'd a Nose so different from her own, What peals of laughter shook her aged sides!

Through the smoke and flash of battle a single form is shown; O'er clang and crash and rattle peals out one trumpet-tone 'Strike, for Allah and the Prophet!

The tragic tone of Patty's awful avowal was too much for Marian, and she dropped into a kitchen chair and went off into peals of laughter.

Such is the beautiful imagery devoted to superstitious musings, by the illustrious bard: "While, like the rest, the knight expects to hear Loud peals of thunder breaking on his ear, A dulcet symphony his sense invades, Of nymphs, or dryads, warbling through the shades.

He couldn't find anything funny in his remark; but there they sat facing him and uttering hysterical peals of merriment, until the tears ran down their cheeks.

Then, at the peals of the organ the singers and the worshippers struck up the Agnus Dei; the boys' procession began; behind them came the girls.

He looks like Simoun!" Fresh peals of laughter resounded, while Padre Irene rubbed his nose.

[With peals of laughter.

Here is something very funny, Surely worth the entrance money; At the sight what laughter peals!

Schiller (then living also) may perhaps excel him in those peals of terror which flash thro' his gloomy and tempestuous scene, but he is far inferior in the mechanism of his drama.

But the darkness was not of the moon's absence in another hemisphere; only that darkness which is cloud-born, and must cede in twinkling yet glorious intervening moments to the moon, when she will salute the graves and the marriage-guests; and the hearse, as it slowly wended its way up the road to Lochee, every now and then pouring forth from its dark inside peals of laughter.

A statue could not look more imperturbable, and he turns his head but very slightly, with supreme indifference, when peals of laughter, more joyous than common, are wafted through the open windows of the mess-room, where some of our friends have fairly embarked on that tide of good-humour and hilarity which sets in with the second glass of champagne.

I was awoke by a very heavy storm of rain and wind, attended with loud peals of thunder.

I saw them dodge about, and heard their shouts of warning and their peals of laughter.

It must have heard the bells of St. Martin's toll for the death of Nelson and ring out joyous peals after Waterloo.

Distant peals of thunder were heard; and thick sultry drops of rain pattered at intervals against the casement of the inn: every thing seemed to indicate a tempestuous evening.

That regiment is loyal; Keep them in silence in the inner court, Unseen by all, and when the signal peals Then close the doors; keep watch upon the house, And all ye meet be instantly arrested.

Soft-gliding now, as when o'er pebbles glancing, The silver wave goes dancing; Now with majestic swell, and strong, As thunder peals in organ-tones along; And now with stormy gush, As down the rock, in foam, the whirling torrents rush.

And when the cannon's iron throat Shall bear the news to dells remote, And trumpet-blast resound the note, That victory is won; While down the wind the banner drops, And bonfires blaze on mountain-tops, His sides shall glow with fierce delight, And ring glad peals from morn to night; Hurra!

Nine tailors; changes rung on an old theme in two short touches and two full peals, by Dorothy Leigh Sayers.

It was just after one of the louder peals that I thought I heard some glass smash in the other room.

When we left them, as it was again low water, the women carried us to our boat, and took their leave of us amidst peals of laughter.

Then I told the whole story, amid peals of laughter, just as related above.

There had been several aggravated cases of cruelty to wives among the Dutch aristocracy, so that strong influences in favor of the bill had been brought to bear on the legislature, but the Tribune thundered every morning in its editorial column its loudest peals, which reverberated through the State.

Already accustomed to this gypsy life, George's dry humor began to show itself, and now and again the silence would be broken by peals of laughter, caused by some quaint joke.