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Sentences starting with laughter

Laughter and soft voices came from the galleries. [9]
Laughter and singing in particular seemed to her like a blasphemy, in face of her sorrow. [2]
Laughter came into her eyes, and I knew that I had not vexed her. [9]
Laughter went up from the crowd. [11]
Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels of the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power; that is all. [6]
Laughter and tears and kisses! [9]
Laughter was heard, and joking. [9]

Sentences ending with laughter

Tom Gaylord roared with laughter. [9]
Once in a while he would make a droll observation that was greeted with fits of laughter. [9]
But the time was not fit for laughter. [11]
The first hour was all fun, all idle nonsense and laughter. [5]
He would wait until a story was well under way, and then annihilate the point of it with a cutting cynicism and set the table in a roar of laughter. [9]
While anxiety and trouble were brooding over the steward's dwelling, while dismay and disappointment were clouding the souls of its inhabitants, the hall of the Muses was merry with feasting and laughter. [10]
When we all took leave my grand-uncle bid Herdegen stay, and Kunz waited on us; but notwithstanding all his merry quips as we went home, not once could we be moved to laughter. [10]
Puss gave way to laughter. [9]
It went home to her woman's heart without a touch of ludicrousness, without a sound of laughter. [11]
Indeed, she seemed to be far from laughter. [9]

Short sentences using laughter

Thalia's laughter, surely, not Clio's. [9]
He broke into laughter. [9]
Quiet beauty--sweet music--innocent laughter! [13]
Her laughter was contagious. [9]
Such laughter! [9]

Sentences containing laughter two or more times

A wind was rising, bearing with it song and laughter from distant groups, --Teutonic song and, laughter. [9]
Suddenly he burst out into a fit of his broad, good-natured laughter, so loud that men from various sides turned with surprise to see what this strange and evidently solitary laughter could mean. [2]
The secret of life he had discovered in laughter, and by laughter he sold quantities of Cousin Robert's groceries. [9]
The waves of laughter and conversation broke upon it without affecting it any more than if it had been a rock in the sea and the words and the laughter veritable waters. [5]

More example sentences with the word laughter in them

She chaffed the young men pleasantly and wittily, as she supposed, and as the rest also supposed, apparently, judging by the applause and laughter which she got by her efforts. [5]
He was a young man, very spare and very burned, with bright red hair and blue eyes that had a kind of laughter in them, and yet were sober. [9]
There were five young gentlemen playing a game I knew not, with intervals of intense silence, and boisterous laughter and execrations while the cards were being shuffled and the money rang on the board and glasses were being filled from a stand at one side. [9]
They had not yet gone to rest, for loud laughter fell upon her ear from the large sheds, open on all sides, which stood over the dyers' vats. [10]
Well, upon my word if things ain't getting to a pretty pass when--" The house broke into laughter, but was promptly brought to order, and meantime Mr. Allen persuaded the old lady to take her seat. [5]
There was a wondering and eloquent silence for a moment, then a great wave of laughter began to sweep along that human sea, but a warning bugle-blast cut its career short. [5]
The gallery shook with laughter, and honourable members with slips of paper in their hands were made as conspicuous as if they had been caught wearing dunces' caps. [9]
Hysteric laughter, mingled with hoarse cries, ran over the House, but the Honorable Heth Sutton did not even smile. [9]
The unschooled gentlemen with him roared with laughter at his sallies, and they came to the place of meeting as though to a summer feast. [11]
The crowd turned with half-apprehensive laughter to the trees. [11]
Polly Ann replied, with a merry peal of laughter, "You are both jealous of Tom--both of you. [9]
Several young courtiers who were walking in front of their chariots, surrounded them and joined in the laughter and merry conversation, in which the vivacious wife of the chief priest shared, having left her large travelling-chariot to be carried in a litter. [10]
There were many who overheard, and who used their fans and their napkins to hide their laughter at the very just snub Mrs. Grafton had received. [9]
With a sigh which was half bitter and mocking laughter, he seized the pouncebox, dried his letter to Guida, and put it in his pocket. [11]
With a tongue which made men gasp with laughter, with as comic a gift as ever woman had, and as equally comic a face, she had been a good-natured little tyrant in her way. [11]
This laughter, in which Hodder joined, seemed suddenly to put them on a new footing--a little surprising to both. [9]
Their malicious faces were tinged by the red glow of the flames, which rose with their spiteful laughter towards heaven, as if demanding vengeance. [10]
Three other couples were selected, at first with some laughter, but finally with serious consideration, and Uarda's father was sent with the drivers as an escort. [10]
And soon we were in the heat of it,--sober minuet no longer, but romp and riot, the screams of the lasses a-mingle with our own laughter, as we spun them until they were dizzy. [9]
Dr. Warner's verse was the laughter of the company. [9]
All about me was talk and laughter, glasses ringing, voices uplifted in set speeches, and many a shout of gratulation. [10]
Even the senator was so choked with laughter that he was forced to cast loose one of the buttons which held on his turn-down collar, and Farrar retired into the woods. [9]
And when he was out of sight his comrades let fly their laughter in a storm of happy satisfaction--and then quieted down, and were less happy, less satisfied. [5]
The Louvre even was not neglected, and as they entered it first she recalled with still unaccustomed laughter his reply to the proffered services of the guide. [9]
Voices mingled, there was light laughter, little bursts of admiration, then lower tones, and then he was roused by a voice calling. [11]
The long waiting was a sore trial, yet laughter was often upon her lips henceforth. [11]
Besides, the blustering war of tongues had reached a merry close, and loud laughter blended with the shouts of fear and warning; for the surging throng had swept with unexpected speed towards the fountain and plunged Philostratus into the basin. [10]
Yes, Xanthe felt very sorrowful, yet everything that surrounded her was so bright, and at her home laughter was rarely silent, while her own often rang out no less merrily than that of lively Chloris and dark-skinned Dorippe. [10]
Half-suppressed laughter rippled up from all sides. [5]
Suddenly Mr. Carvel turned, shaking with a laughter he could not control, and strode into the private office the door slammed behind him. [9]
But that wretch treats all laughter and the most innocent fun as a crime, or so interprets it that it seems so. [10]
We have here to-night one who has made millions laugh--not the loud laughter that bespeaks the vacant mind, but the laugh of intelligent mirth that helps the human heart and the human mind. [5]
When he came to the point where Rudyard went from the house, leaving Stafford to deal with Fellowes, she burst again into laughter, mocking, wilful, painful. [11]
He was averse to loud laughter in others, and objected to Margaret Fuller that she made him laugh too much. [6]
Barbara said this to her husband when he wished to check the merry laughter of the little ones, and then went to her chamber. [10]
It was good to hear Dan and the doctor laugh--such natural and such enjoyable laughter had not been heard among our excursionists since our ship sailed away from America. [5]
It were best to attempt to record the intangible things; the golden-green light, the perfumes, and the faint musical laughter which we can hear if we listen. [9]
It was impossible to advance much in love-making with one who offered no obstacles, had no concealments and no embarrassments, and whom any approach to sentimentality would be quite likely to set into a fit of laughter. [5]
From time to time the outbursts of rage and agony of despairing men, and horrible jeering laughter, drowned the voices of the flocks of birds and the roaring of the tempestuous sea. [10]
Close beside her--this time at her right--the loud laughter of men's harsh voices echoed through the darkness. [10]
From time to time also I saw Colonel Chouteau shaking with laughter. [9]
I know that this statement will be received incredulously, and disputed by those who claim that laughter is a good thing; the honourable gentleman died from too much of a good thing. [9]
The speech of this fantastic figure was received with an explosion of jeers and laughter. [5]
Then came another thing, so strange, that it seemed like the laughter of the angels at us. [11]
Now and then they glanced at one another, hardly able to suppress their laughter. [2]
In the homes there were no cheerful faces, there was no music, there was no singing but of solemn hymns, no voice but of prayer, no romping was allowed, no noise, no laughter, the family moved spectrally about on tiptoe, in a ghostly hush. [5]
In the moment there was a wild burst of joyous laughter, a pair of round young arms were flung about Conrad's neck and a sweet voice cried: "There, Conrad mine, thy kind words kill me--the farce shall go no further! [5]
The music ceased, there came feminine laughter across the water, then Nick's voice, in French that dared everything:-- "Go away and amuse yourselves at the dance. [9]
And now and then, rippling among his visions and his dreams, did he hear familiar laughter and half-forgotten voices, and did he catch fitful glimpses of the friendly faces of a bygone time? [5]
Their laughter and their mutually incomprehensible remarks in two languages could be heard. [2]
The sounds of their jests and laughter pursued us out of the house. [9]
By this time the whole church was red-faced and suffocating with suppressed laughter, and the sermon had come to a dead standstill. [5]
I looked at the Vicomtesse inquiringly, and there was laughter in her eyes. [9]
Publius rode through the streets of the city at an easy trot, and, as the laughter of soldiers carousing in a tavern fell upon his ear, he could have joined heartily in their merriment. [10]
This vastly amused the spectators, and even broke down their studied and courtly gravity and surprised them into laughter. [5]
Behind the stage, the real play, the absorbing interest, the high stakes--occasional discreet laughter through the peep-hole when an actor makes an impassioned appeal to the gods. [9]
She stared at the Prince in stupid amazement, which so amused her ruffianly son, that he burst into a roar of laughter. [5]
And far into the night, through silent Cheapside, a rolling voice swelled through much laughter thus: "Gai Ion la, gai le rosier, Du joli mois de Mai. [11]
All at once the music swelled up voices and laughter were wafted faintly from the pleasure world of lights beyond. [9]
And when for the moment he would conquer his mirth, a glance at Major Colfax would set him off again in laughter. [9]
Nay, even in the midst of the silent dwelling of the speechless Sisters, right merry laughter might be heard during the hours of rest, and in spite of the thick walls of the class-room it reached the nuns' ears. [10]
He, too, stared, the laughter fading from his eyes, first astonishment, and then anger, growing in them, slowly, surely. [9]
He now convulsed the idlers in the smoking-room with laughter, and soon deftly drew off the discussion to the speed of the vessel, arranging a sweep-stake immediately, upon the possibilities of the run. [11]
Lights gleamed in the houses; voices and laughter, and once the tinkle of a guitar came to us from court-yard and gallery. [9]
We swung through the gate in great style, with a vast accession of noise, the most of which was laughter, and soon our van was over the river and moving down against the Tourelles. [5]
Mr. Cooke and the Four vanished, and from the uproarious laughter which arose from the cabin transoms I judged they were telling stories. [9]
He went to the door, laughter came to him across the green from the harness shop, and his eye following the sound, fastened on Bijah seated comfortably in the midst of the group there. [9]
As she closed the door gusts of laughter reached them from the floor below, and she could plainly distinguish the voices of May Barclay and Trixton Brent. [9]
In some of the boxes the conversation and laughter are so loud as to divide the attention of the house with the stage. [5]
As I entered the anteroom I heard Andrusha's peals of laughter and that meant that all was well. [2]
Hideous sounds tortured the air--crackling, snapping, spitting sounds like the laughter of animals with steel throats. [11]
The maudlin scene that met my eyes on deck defies description; some were fighting, others grinning with a hideous laughter, and still others shouting tavern jokes unspeakable. [9]
And even after that an unconscionable period elapsed, beguiled, undoubtedly, by anecdotes; spells of silence--when she thought they had gone--ending in more laughter. [9]
It startled and surprised him to hear them break into a vast roar of laughter. [5]
Somewhat to my surprise, I found myself making occasional, unexpected witticisms that drew laughter and applause. [9]
Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution --these can lift at a colossal humbug--push it a little--weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. [5]
Will you--an energetic student, you--a man of powerful intellect, zealous in your duty, and in favor with the gods--will you pine like a deserted maiden or spring from the Leucadian rock like love-sick Sappho in the play while the spectators shake with laughter? [10]
Speranski's high-pitched voice struck him unpleasantly, and the incessant laughter grated on him like a false note. [2]
He was a strange gentleman, now jolly enough to make me shake with laughter and forget the sorrow of my parting, now moody for a night and a day; now he was all sweetness, now all fire; now he was abstemious, now self-indulgent and prodigal. [9]
The old lady stood petrified with astonishment, peering over her glasses; Tom lay on the floor expiring with laughter. [5]
An alabaster wine-jar stood between his fat knees, and his heavy body rolled with laughter as he was drawn in triumph through the sacred arcades by a shouting rabble, as fast as they could run. [10]
Shangois did not stir, nor show by even the wink of an eyelid that he recognised the laughter, or thought that he was being laughed at. [11]
They were both startled by laughter at their shoulders. [9]
They went into spasms, convulsions, frenzies of laughter, and the tears flowed down their cheeks in rivulets. [5]
Her laughter rang shrill and clear as Honora entered the hall by the rear door, and the big clock proclaimed that the hour was half-past eleven. [9]
The air was shrieking with the misery of mutilated men and horses and the ghoulish laughter of pom-poms. [11]
She could have shrieked with that laughter which is more painful far than tears. [11]
Once or twice she was encored five and six times in succession, and received with hisses when she appeared, and discharged with hisses and laughter when she had finished--then instantly encored and insulted again! [5]
Again she was shaken with laughter, and suddenly to my surprise she turned and looked full at me. [9]
Langmaid began to shake with silent laughter. [9]
Fuller, Margaret: borrowed sermon, 130; at a party, 149; The Dial, 159, 160, 162; Memoir, 209; causing laughter, 364; mosaic Biography, 368. [6]
John ----'s wife seriously thought him gone wrong in the head, as she heard him giving vent to roars of laughter as he sat alone, clapping and stamping on the floor. [14]
There she stood, seeing and hearing, and her low moaning changed to that laughter which anguish borrows from gladness when it has exhausted all forms of expression. [10]
A rumble of Russian and French voices and laughter filled the air round the tables in the square. [2]
Large warehouses stood round the harbor of this Greek colony, and slightly-built dwelling-houses, into which the idle mariners were lured by the sounds of music and laughter, and the glances and voices of painted and rouged damsels. [10]
A half-intoxicated man rose up and threw something, which missed her but bespattered a chair at her side, and this evoked an outburst of laughter and boisterous admiration. [5]
From the dancing room, they still heard the laughter and merry voices trying to persuade Natasha to sing. [2]
From the third room came sounds of laughter, the shouting of familiar voices, the growling of a bear, and general commotion. [2]
I began to relate this, thinking of our uproarious laughter when the poor fellow cried out: "Let me alone! [10]
And these he rehearsed in such merry spirit and new guise that we scarce recognized them, and Colonel Lloyd so choked with laughter that more than once he had to be hit between the shoulders. [9]

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