There was no more shamefaced lad in the world than me at that moment, for coming out of the din I heard a girl's light laughter.

His father and sisters daily conversed with him from below, for a considerable time; and the morris-dancers often raised his laughter by their grotesque movements.

What vehement laughter would it not excite among The daughters of Cheapside, and wives of Lombard-street.

Hephaestus (Roman Vulcan), the god of fire, was a sort of jester at the Olympian court, and provoked perpetual laughter from his awkwardness and lameness.

Olive had drawn The Landing of the Pilgrims on the largest of the blackboards, and Nancy had written a merry little story that caused great laughter and applause in the youthful audience.

Then suppressed laughter and the gurgling of the flowing enlivener.

" "Oh!" cried Ralph, restraining his laughter by a powerful effort.

" As he hurried away, Marmaduke leaned against the gate and made the villas opposite echo his laughter.

Nancy, stifling her laughter, goes on rapidly: "And so the Knight summons Younger Brother Peter to come, and he flies in a great air ship from Charlestown to Beulah.

Choosing a comfortable-looking ottoman, I sat down, little dreaming that I had fallen into a trap which would occasion much laughter among my friends for days to come.

" The drawling tone was such a good imitation of Mrs. Ponsonby's that father could barely control his laughter, especially as she continued: "I also feel that I owe it to the neighbourhood to do all in my power to put a stop to buggy riding, the vulgar recreation of the unmarried.

" Here the boys had some difficulty in repressing their laughter; for Charles placed his head in the position of the faithless Shadderrons, and looked so mischievously at George, that he was obliged to cover his eyes, or he would have stopped the story by a boisterous shout of merriment.

But suddenly the music ended in a peal of rippling laughter and there came the rustle of silken garments.

And then we both collapsed and began to roar wi' laughter.

Among them you could gayly walk And share their laughter and their talk; You could be young and blithe as they, Could you recall your yesterday.

" The second application of the handkerchief had so increased the effect, that Jack found it impossible to check his laughter, while the cooper, whose attention was now drawn to his sister's face, burst out in a similar manner.

And lying there, it seemed that Fidelis yet lay beneath his arm, the Fidelis who was no Fidelis; and in the shadows he laughed amainwild laughter that died of a sudden, choked by awful sobs, what time he clenched his hands upon his throbbing ears; yet still, above the sounds of his own anguish, needs must he hear again that forlorn and desolate cry: "O, God pity thee, Beltane!"

The contrast suggested drew laughter from the crowd.

I pity and help them; I prize love, I love honest laughter; there is no good thing nor true thing on earth but I love it from my heart.

She was thinking that Ann was product, expression, of the love of the world, that love which had brought the laughter and the tears, brought the hope and the radiance and the tragedy of life.

So all of New York that sat in the long galleries of the Garden hushed its laughter and looked askance at one another and waited.

Acts, for instance, which aim at producing exalted emotional effect among ordinary slow-witted peopleBurke's dagger, Louis Napoleon's tame eagle, the German Kaiser's telegrams about Huns and mailed fistsmay do so, and therefore be in the end politically successful, although they produce spontaneous laughter in men whose conception of good political manners is based upon the idea of self-restraint.

Hilda frowned, regretting her confession and resenting his laughter.

And doth it not deserve laughter to see an amorous fool torment himself for a wench; weep, howl for a misshapen slut, a dowdy sometimes, that might have his choice of the finest beauties?

He can listen to a foolish discourse with an applausive attention, and conceal his laughter at nonsense.