31 Verbs to Use for the Word chuckles

Uncle John gave a chuckle and resumed his game with the Major, who whispered that he would give a dollar for an oil painting of Mr. Clarkif it couldn't be had for less.

I heard Melindy chuckle as I walked off, swinging them; and to be sure, when I brought the creatures in to Peggy, one of them kicked and lay still, and the other gasped worse than ever.

The action drew a chuckle from the crowd.

he grunted, and emitted a curious chuckle that caused me to give him my full attention.

" The listening Andy heard the man called Daley utter a gratified chuckle.

" The Briton chuckled a deprecating chuckle; meaning to say, he hoped Lanyard was spoofing; but since one couldn't be sure, one's only wise course was to play safe.

There was unmistakable fear, a tense anxiety in those glittering eyes as Captain Plum walked toward the paper, but when he paused and stretched himself, the sole of his boot carelessly trampling the discarded letter, the head disappeared again and there came another satisfied bird-like chuckle from the gloom of the thicket.

Mr. Killibrew continued his pleased chuckle.

(At this Julia deigns a slight chuckle.)

" She suddenly gave one of her funny, eerie little chuckles; but she made no other comment.

I cannot forbear a wicked chuckle, however, when I think of that other museum!

The patience with which Frowenfeld was bearing all this forced a chuckle and shake of the head from the marchande.

Then, descending to more mundane matters, she added a delighted chuckle: "I knowed she'd rise en shine one dese days.

Jeems rolled over and over, clutching small feathers from the mattress in the agony of his delight, while the clothed youths contented themselves with amused but gurgling chuckles.

Before her slaves, Under set eyes of melancholy cast, She hid her inner chuckle at the events That have been brought to passtoo well for her, But for this house and hearth most miserably, As in the tale the strangers clearly told.

And here, if for the moment I may prefigure the Eagle as a sentient being, I can imagine his chuckle.

Both incite a chuckle:" a sentiment which Lamb more than once expresses.

Miss Morrissey laughed her fat, comfortable chuckle.

Next, if you'll believe it, he laughedthe queer little chuckle under his breath that I've heard him give two or three times when there was something he thought was funny.

He could not repress a chuckle; Doctor Mary was interesting him extremely.

And now he could scarcely restrain his triumphant chuckles in Ben's hearing.

Afterwards they become more silent, and apparently more solitary, but still fly out to their feeding-grounds morning and evening; and if you sit down in the woods near one of their nests, the uneasy choking chuckle, ending at last in the outright cawing of the disturbed owner, will generally be answered from every point, and crow after crow come edging up from tree to tree to see what is the matter.

"Perhaps," suggested Ferd, with a chuckle, "the aeroplane we heard belonged to him" "A ghost's aeroplane," murmured Billie, smothering another hysterical chuckle.

" Thereupon the band played the National Anthem, and the throng, after yet another outbreak of cheering, dispersed. Followed a silence in the darkness under the platform, broken only by the distant thudding bass of the roundabout's steam organ; and then between the boards there sounded a liquid chuckle, much like a blackbird's, and a woman's voice said "Come, my dear brother, say it out!

Langdon could not suppress a chuckle at the doubting note in Haines' attitude.

31 Verbs to Use for the Word  chuckles