107 Verbs to Use for the Word mirth

The tyrant and his victim; the slave dealer and the noble soul he had trafficked for! Pale, but firm with high resolve, the girl looked for one moment at the man she had fearedwhose looks had checked her childish mirth, whose anger she had been taught to dread, even to the sacrificing of her heart's best hopes.

But when the pleasant impertinent of comedy, in a piece purely meant to give delight, and raise mirth out of whimsical perplexities, worries the studious man with taking up his leisure, or making his house his home, the same sort of contempt expressed (however natural) would destroy the balance of delight in the spectators.

There were quaint and curious costumes of all sorts, each of which provoked much mirth or admiration from the enthusiastic audience.

Perhaps no more than half an hour had passed from the time we first saw Jacob until we three, so lately prisoners, were surrounded by that brave band of lads who, by calling themselves "Minute Boys," had excited the mirth of the elders of Cherry Valley, and yet never one who was not prepared to sacrifice his own life for the welfare of the others.

While his pen was causing mirth and laughter in England, his heart was torn by suffering.

And so she sails for summer lands With friends to share her mirth; She waves her jewelled hand to me The opal spray-clouds fly; She leaves me with the fading shore Do I envy her?

He cannoned against the table at last, and, subsiding into an easy-chair, crammed his handkerchief to his mouth and gave way to suppressed mirth.

"We're all in for it," cried Villon, swallowing his mirth.

the savage man-stealer interrupted their playful mirth, and has taken them for ever from her sight.

" Peter was vaguely amused in his weariness, but thought that he concealed his mirth from his mother.

Instead of melancholy closets, and lonely avenues of trees, I saw lightsome rooms and cheerful faces; I had companions of my own age; no books were allowed me but what were rational or sprightly; that gave me mirth, or gave me instruction.

The first use of the smile is to express affectionate good-will; the second, to express mirth.

While the young man gave magnificent entertainments and the palace re-echoed his mirth, while the horses pawed the ground in the courtyard and the pages quarreled at their game of dice on the stairs, Bartholomeo ate seven ounces of bread a day and drank water.

He hath turned A bitter knave of late, and lost his mirth, And mutters riddling warnings and wild tales Of the great days of heathen Rome; and prates Of peace, and liberty, and equal law, And mild philosophy, to us the knights And warriors of this warlike age, who rule By the bright law of arms.

Villon fetched him a fillip on the nose, which turned his mirth into an attack of coughing.

The monarch saw, and shook, And bade no more rejoice; All bloodless wax'd his look, And tremulous his voice: "Let the men of lore appear, The wisest of the earth, And expound the words of fear, Which mar our royal mirth.

We miss the happy, tender ways of those who brought us mirth and cheer; We never gather round the hearth but that we wish our friends were near; For peace is born of simple thingsa kindly word, a goodnight kiss, The prattle of a babe, and lovethese are the vanished joys we miss.

Now he leaned against one of these uprights and indulged his mirth.

True mirth we may enjoy in thacked stall, Nor hoping higher rise, nor fearing lower fall.

"By all means" (saith [3505] Mesue) "procure mirth to these men in such things as are heard, seen, tasted, or smelled, or any way perceived, and let them have all enticements and fair promises, the sight of excellent beauties, attires, ornaments, delightsome passages to distract their minds from fear and sorrow, and such things on which they are so fixed and intent."

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth Must borrow its mirth, It has trouble enough of its own.

" Gilbert choked with wrath as he saw the mirth of the other passengers.

Your Lordship holds your mirth still, Heaven continue it: but for these Gentlemen, they come Bac. To swear you are a Coward, spare your book, I do believe it.

These solemn pageantries were not played off so often as to spoil the general mirth of the community.

Nothing could exceed the mirth and hilarity of the company.

107 Verbs to Use for the Word  mirth