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Usage examples of laughter.

But Conan doubted, for once, in a gold-barred cage in an Hyrkanian city, he had seen an abysmal sad-eyed beast which men told him was an ape, and there had been about it naught of the demoniac malevolence which vibrated in the shrieking laughter that echoed from the black jungle.

I replied, following her steps, that I presumed they had been placed there to impose on fools, or to excite the laughter of those acquainted with history.

From some dim adytum the recorded carols of a private celebration could be heard, and some laughter.

Waned the day and I hied me afield, and thereafter I sat with the mighty when daylight was done, But with great men beside me, midst high-hearted laughter, I deemed me of all men the gainfullest one.

Finally Aileron put up a hand, his chest so convulsed with laughter that he clearly could barely get a word out.

It Is Short but Happy--Don Antonio Casanova--Don Lelio Caraffa--I Go to Rome in Very Agreeable Company, and Enter the Service of Cardinal Acquaviva--Barbara--Testaccio--Frascati I had no difficulty in answering the various questions which Doctor Gennaro addressed to me, but I was surprised, and even displeased, at the constant peals of laughter with which he received my answers.

Both Arak and Sufa slapped their hands over their mouths in a vain effort to contain their laughter.

Mixed into the wind it reminded him of the laughter he had heard in the arboretum when he had come upon the duchess and the King.

There was no end to the laughter in his head, the laughter that rode the wind sweeping through Aren Gate at his back.

In the middle of the wood a brown hare with white feet sprang out and, scared by the tramp of the many horses, grew so confused that it leaped along the road in front of them for some time, arousing general attention and laughter, and only when several voices shouted at it did it dart to one side and disappear in the thicket.

From a chamber on the right, near a winding staircase covered with blue-and-white tiles, came the sound of laughter, of song, and of a hideous music conveyed to the astonied ear by pipes and drums.

When they discreetly confronted the attaché with still photographs, he burst into laughter and asked them if they could supply him with copies to send to his wife in Paris to prove that his virility had not diminished during his two years in Moscow.

Brother Peter coughed, Aumery succumbed to a fit of snorting laughter.

Kundera has created around it, by framing it with two autobiographical chapters where the sharp edge of laughter is turned against himself.

As all the women burst into sudden laughter at the susceptibility of men, the awkwardness dispersed.