It may have been fancy; but I could have sworn to hearing a soft titter, that grew into a hideous, chuckling, faint and distant.

It is not all of philanthropy to classify degenerates, titter at ignorance, and to go a-peeping through the slums!

Let those boys who are responsible for what occurred last evening stand up!" With one exception nobody stirred; a solitary small boy rose to his feet, and in spite of the gravity of the situation a subdued titter ran through the assembly.

His indignant expostulations were met with a titter of suppressed laughter; he was roughly forced down upon his knees, and while in this position what seemed like two buckets of cold water were emptied over his devoted head.

" There rose a titter about the two.

As a titter greeted this catastrophe, he lost his temper and dignity completely.

" Mr. Tutt looked significantly at the jury, while a titter ran round the court room.

" "Nequaquam" said Amy faintly, "not ever" There was a titter from Alice Jallow, in which Kittie Rossmore joined.

And then there was a general titter.

"Even at this moment, when the Siberian millionaire's neck literally and metaphorically hung in the balance, an expectant titter went round the fair spectators as Sir Arthur stretched out his long loose limbs and lounged across the table.

smile, simper, smirk; grin, grin like a Cheshire cat; mock, laugh in one's sleeve; laugh, laugh outright; giggle, titter, snigger, crow, snicker, chuckle, cackle; burst out, burst into a fit of laughter; shout, split, roar.

As he left it, he heard the door-bell ring, its electric titter very clear in the silence of the house.

A titter is heard at the idea of a man going about with a name like that.

At this there was an audible titter, that was immediately suppressed; after which, Charlie recovered his memory, and, started by the opportune prompting of Aunt Comfort, he recited it correctly.

[The sentries titter.

not a healthy laugh, but a wheezing, senile titter.

Still dissatisfied, he stopped a third time, and said, "Listen to me," at the same time taking up the strain, but as his voice was cracked, and broken with age, it afforded such a miserable example as to excite a general titter.

I was instantly delivered; and all I could titter was, Glory be to God.

" A titter danced along the benches and some fool in the back of the room clapped his hands.

When relating this, he observed a general titter in the room, and on inquiring the reason a candle was put near him, and, to his amazement, all agreed that the legs of his pantaloons were of different shades of green.

Tiffles, in his character of Professor Wesley, told his story glibly and with perfect coolness, interspersing the heavier details with amusing anecdotes, which made the ministers smile, and brought out a loud titter of laughter from the ministers' wives, and tremendous applause, inclusive of stamping and the banging of hymn books, from the ministers' children.

Your attempt to give it a humorous turn reminds me of Miss Squeers' titteryou must never titter!"

" "But 'Melia Penaluna's been here more times than any of us," said the blonde with a titter, directing her eyes towards a corner of the room.

A titter ran through the house, and I felt that my career as an actress was ruined forever.

He transports us to India, and there The violets titter, caressing, Peeping up as the planets appear, And the roses, their warm love confessing, Whisper words, soft perfumed, to each ear.