204 Verbs to Use for the Word laughing

" The stranger gave a short laugh.

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

The listening spirits heard a low, malicious laugh of triumph and the white-robed angel turned sadly away.

and here the Sergeant uttered a short laugh, and was immediately grave again.

Gifford forced a laugh.

It flavored the vodka, and with that fiery poison served to raise a laugh.

" This brought a laugh.

[1103] One of the best criticks of our age 'does not wish to prevent the admirers of the incorrect and nerveless style which generally prevailed for a century before Dr. Johnson's energetick writings were known, from enjoying the laugh that this story may produce, in which he is very ready to join them.'

You might have "got the laugh on him," and let him live to hear it.

"Yes," said the other voice, echoing that gentle laugh of hers, "you have died too.

He burst out a-laughing at the exquisitely ludicrous idea of a gentleman of his fashion scrambling for coppers.

Some wretched calico that he had mopped his poor oozy front with, had rendered up its native dye, and the devil a bit would he consent to wash it, but swore it was characteristic, for he was going to the sale of indigo; and set up a laugh which I did not think the lungs of mortal man were competent to.

" This produced a general laugh, and there was the faint gleam of a smile on Rosa's face, as she looked up at the cage and said, "Bon jour, jolie Manon!"

Some day, when she had a suitable moment, she would order him to come with all his formalities, and then produce her bit of paper, and turn the laugh against him.

When the bridges of rafts had been swung and anchored, blankets and carpets were laid upon them to deaden the fall of marching feet, and during that silent tramp across the rolling bridges many a keen-witted Scot found it difficult to restrain a laugh as he trod on carpets richer by far than any that had lain in his best parlour at home.

" At these words a great shout of laughter went up from those on the bench, and the landlord's face grew red as a cherry from smothering his laugh in his stomach; but he kept his merriment down, for he wished not to bring the ill-will of the brothers of Fountain Abbey upon him by unseemly mirth.

Scarce had he finished the refrain when Moll within took it up in a faint trembling voice, but only a bar, to let us know we were heard; then she fell a-laughing at her maids, who were whispering in alarm, to disguise her purpose; and so they left that part, as we knew by their voices dying away in the distance.

" The expression of surprise and perplexity in her face, though half pathetic, seemed so comical that I with difficulty suppressed a laugh, because for her it was evidently no laughing matter.

" "Of course I can, JOHN MCLAUGHLIN," says Mr. BUMSTEAD, checking another unseemly laugh of Mr. SMYTHE'S with a dreadful frown.

" Basilio now understood Spanish and answered the questions with the plain intention of making no one laugh.

Oh, you ought to have seen little Skinny McCord laugh.

Ophelia heard and choked back a laugh.

If we are lost like babes in the woods there are plenty of redbreasts to cover us with leaves," and Randal joined Emily's laugh, with a glance at Saul, who had just pulled his coat off.

You see, you don't know (her reckless laugh) what you're missing.

He became aware of her then, threw her a laugh, quickened to a mad tarantella that nearly whirled her off her feet, finally ended with a crashing chord, and whizzed round on the music-stool in time to catch her as she fell gasping against him.

204 Verbs to Use for the Word  laughing