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  • At the end, Unoka was able to give an answer between fresh outbursts of mirth.†   (source)
  • Red all over the cupboard, mirth rhymes with birth, oh to die of laughter.†   (source)
  • The mirth curdled on Robert's face.†   (source)
  • CHRISTMAS IS COME, HANG ON THE POT, LET SPITS TURN ROUND, AND OVENS BE HOT; BEEF, PORK, AND POULTRY, NOW PROVIDE To FEAST THY NEIGHBORS AT THIS TIDE; THEN WASH ALL DOWN WITH GOOD WINE AND BEER, AND SO WITH MIRTH CONCLUDE THE YEAR.†   (source)
  • Loud, but with real mirth, tears coming to his eyes.†   (source)
  • The winter god's eyes were full of mirth.†   (source)
  • His laugh reminds me of Carla's—unselfconscious, a little too loud, and full of mirth.†   (source)
  • A guffaw suddenly burst out of Angela, doubling her over in mirth.†   (source)
  • The wild gales of mirth ended when he looked at the mangled body of the rat in the corner.†   (source)
  • "Oh, that was very amusing," she said, her voice rippling with mirth.†   (source)
  • And I followed this with a suitably modest smile to indicate without ambiguity that I had made a witticism, since I did not wish Mr Farraday to restrain any spontaneous mirth he felt out of a misplaced respectfulness.†   (source)
  • Jesus reached over and hugged him, shaking from his own spasms of mirth, and Mack felt more clean and alive and well than he had since …. well, he couldn't remember since when.†   (source)
  • He laughed without any mirth.†   (source)
  • She smiled without mirth.†   (source)
  • She heard the horrible, giddy sound of it, saw its shoulders shake with mirth.†   (source)
  • Linda couldn't hide the mirth in her expression.†   (source)
  • Of these, she liked best one that showed them sitting in a leaf-dappled light amid picnic debris and looking at one another with expressions that, though unsmiling, seemed mirthful and full of delight.†   (source)
  • With one last bark of mirth, he rose up, slow.†   (source)
  • Kathy, I could see, was determined not to give them cause for mirth.†   (source)
  • "I do, yes," says August, making no effort to contain his mirth.†   (source)
  • Right now, they shine with barely restrained mirth.†   (source)
  • Long rolls of laughter filled the room, and the faces of the others grew distorted with mirth.†   (source)
  • It was Stoddard's turn to laugh, and he did so unrestrainedly, throwing back his head and uttering his mirth so boyishly that the other smiled in sympathy.†   (source)
  • But a smile without mirth, without depth, just an arrangement of flesh.†   (source)
  • A deeper ripple of mirth this time and Bronzini was sad for the boy, skinny Alfonse, but did not rebuke them, kept talking, talked over the momentary rollick—skinny sorry Alfonse, grape-stained with tragic acne.†   (source)
  • The cigar sagged in the man's mouth and the mirth-filled look in his eyes vanished.†   (source)
  • Tears of mirth streaked down his cheeks, leaving trails on his filthy face.†   (source)
  • But after a time their hearts and spirit rose high again, and their voices rang out in mirth and laughter.†   (source)
  • He could almost see them waiting on the other side of the canvas wall, bunched up expectantly like a pack of greedy, gloating omnivorous beasts of prey, ready with their barbaric mirth and jeers to pounce on him brutally the moment he reappeared.†   (source)
  • Sundays were more like election days at home, as all of Paris "poured forth" into the Bois de Boulogne, where the woods resounded with "music and dancing, jollity and mirth of every kind."†   (source)
  • Wiping a tear of mirth from his own, he struggled for composure.†   (source)
  • Her big-mama, jazz-singer face was pretty and lively and made for mirth, but there was no song or laughter in her now.†   (source)
  • They will suddenly appreciate each sunrise, each sunset, each mirthful peal of a child's laughter.†   (source)
  • He chuckles, a dark sound that's made all the more disturbing by the undercurrent of genuine mirth.†   (source)
  • Lawson leaped to his feet, with a sudden, mirthful grin, and ran out of the room.†   (source)
  • This brought a laugh from the group, but none laughed louder than Bellagrog, whose whole body shook with mirth while she wiped a tear from her crocodile eye.†   (source)
  • She laughs but there's no mirth in it.†   (source)
  • He can be ruthless, although there is also a great capacity within him for justice and even mirth.†   (source)
  • "Will you allow me to learn your name?" she asked with mirth.†   (source)
  • He smiles briefly at them without mirth, and starts to back out, his parting shot rising again.†   (source)
  • Sophie, half choked on her own mirth, made weak little dabs at her eyes.†   (source)
  • He was doubled up with belly-shaking spasms of mirth.†   (source)
  • The shouting mechanical dummy of a woman, larger than life, dressed up and with a feather in her hat, stood beckoning on the upper gallery of the House of Mirth and producing her wound-up laughter.†   (source)
  • Rod laughed without mirth.†   (source)
  • But then noticing the mirthful expression on my face, they broke into a laugh, though in a somewhat bemused fashion.†   (source)
  • The historian's mirthful air faded.†   (source)
  • Indeed, in the moment or so that it took for me to perceive this and compose a suitable response, I may even have given the outward impression of struggling with the question, for I saw all the gentlemen in the room exchange mirthful smiles.†   (source)
  • Papa, it sure is mirthful that somebody who knows history like Miss Malcolm knows it has never heard of a great man like Abner Doubleday.†   (source)
  • The girls disrobed at once, pausing in different stages to point proudly to their garish underthings and bantering all the while with the gaunt and dissipated old man with the shabby long white hair and slovenly white unbuttoned shirt who sat cackling lasciviously in a musty blue armchair almost in the exact center of the room and bade Nately and his companions welcome with a mirthful and sardonic formality.†   (source)
  • "She is no niece of ours, my Lord," she cried over the outpouring of mirth.†   (source)
  • All mirth vanished from his expression, replaced with a look of stern warning.†   (source)
  • The Queen burst out laughing, and immediately, the courtiers copied her mirth.†   (source)
  • Will looked sideways at me, his face still carrying the mirth of the last few moments.†   (source)
  • Just wondering,he said, mirth still bubbling inside him.†   (source)
  • Ah me!' he paused, getting the better of his mirth.†   (source)
  • The sound of their mirth was like water falling on crystal.†   (source)
  • For the first time in a long while, she saw a touch of mirth in his eyes.†   (source)
  • They rolled across the floor, snapping and biting, as a howl of mirth went up.†   (source)
  • As the meal progressed, everything dissolved around Eragon into a blur of talk and mirth.†   (source)
  • Ta-Kumsaw stopped, turned around, tipped back his head, and laughed without mirth.†   (source)
  • Angela nodded, beaming with suppressed mirth.†   (source)
  • "Yes, yes," he says, mirthfully annoyed.†   (source)
  • They talked together in soft voices, oblivious of the mirth and music in the hall about them.†   (source)
  • Eventually I begin to think I'm going to throw up and crawl away, to the great mirth of everyone.†   (source)
  • The sudden gale of mirth made the rafters ring and shook the lion Throne.†   (source)
  • Islanzadi laughed, showing her long teeth, and the hill and the fields rang with her mirth.†   (source)
  • He scoops some egg onto his fork and then sets it down again, once more overcome with mirth.†   (source)
  • He listened with secret, egotistical mirth to the husky breathing of the two doctors.†   (source)
  • But memorable, he agreed, feeling his mirth return.†   (source)
  • Orr gazed up at Yossarian through the corners of his eyes with a look of pointed mirth.†   (source)
  • But do not look for mirth at the ending.†   (source)
  • She let out a scream of mirth that caused Hedwig to wake up and flap her wings indignantly and Crookshanks to leap up into the luggage rack, hissing.†   (source)
  • From rage on the part of Bernard's closest friends and barely contained mirth among the rest, all became somber.†   (source)
  • And although there was much mirth in evidence at my mother's wedding, and even my grandmother exhibited an unusual tolerance for the many young and not-so-young adults who were cavorting and jolly with drink, the reception ended in an outburst of bad weather more appropriate for a funeral.†   (source)
  • And when he swung down from the saddle and our eyes met, he could barely keep the twist of mirth from his lips.†   (source)
  • The Count looked up from the spool into Marina's stationary eye, which was filled with concern; but her wandering eye seemed filled with mirth.†   (source)
  • Harry had seen enough; laughing, he ducked down low, ran to a door he knew was concealed behind a tapestry a little way along the corridor and slipped through it to find Fred and George hiding just behind it, listening to Umbridge and Filch's yells and quaking with suppressed mirth.†   (source)
  • For a moment a spark of anger lit Valentine's eyes; then he threw his head back and roared with mirth.†   (source)
  • What could possibly provoke mirth, given that he had just a matter of weeks before he took his own life?†   (source)
  • They turned and saw Cotton standing there, wearing vest, tie, and coat, briefcase in hand, yet with a clear look of mirth in his eyes.†   (source)
  • Thankfully, Ser Creighton was too intent on the tale of his epic battle with the Knight of the Red Chicken to make note of the maiden's mirth.†   (source)
  • The sellsword captain Bloodbeard accompanied them with a leathern sack slung across one massive shoulder and a look of mirth and murder on his face.†   (source)
  • All mirth died away.†   (source)
  • You were supposed to count them and say: One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, four for a birth; five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret that's never been told.†   (source)
  • The first two lines would sweep up the river to engage and destroy Joffrey's little fleet, or "the boy's toys" as Ser Imry dubbed them, to the mirth of his lordly captains.†   (source)
  • He lay against the stacks, head leaned to some dear befriending book, the tears of releaseful mirth salting his cheeks, and suddenly knew her gone.†   (source)
  • She lets me go and walks back to the kitchen door with a smile, a twist of her mouth that is all bitterness and no mirth.†   (source)
  • His laugh had no mirth in it.†   (source)
  • Her last shriek was so loud that it set the dogs to barking, and two of her aunt's ladies could scarce contain their mirth.†   (source)
  • Everyone preferred real cigarettes, of course, but there was never enough of them (and toward the end of the conflict, none at all), and the leaves provided a bit of mirth and laxity to our spirits, if also a seizing headache at evening's end.†   (source)
  • His mirth subsiding, Orik said, "If we move against you or Az Sweldn rak Anhuin, you will consider it an act of war, Vermund?†   (source)
  • But often I must put mirth aside.†   (source)
  • They toppled above him, clapped bands, wiggled cars, bent to wash him all over with their now bright fullriver flowing laughter that could not be stopped if the sky fell or the earth rent open, to blend their good mirth with his, to fuse-light and set him off in a detonation which could not stop exploding from ladyfingers to four-inchers to doomsday cannon crackers of delight!†   (source)
  • "The last word my uncle Pros left with ma to give me was that you'd bear watchin', Shade Buckheath," laughed Johnnie, her face breaking up into sweet, sudden mirth at the folly of it all.†   (source)
  • I kept my voice as level as I could, but as her jaw worked in that angry face, I found myself thinking of my cow worrying at her cud, and I felt the contagion of Mr. Mompellion's strange fit of mirth.†   (source)
  • Their shields were bigger than they were, and they wrestled manfully with their lances as they clomped along, swaying this way and that and eliciting gusts of mirth.†   (source)
  • I don't normally drink red wine, but tonight I am feeling particularly curious and unfamiliar to myself, and all I can do is try to recall if I even have a corkscrew somewhere in this house, left over from long past evenings of mirth and company.†   (source)
  • Horst laughed, his thick, spade-shaped beard pointed up toward the sky until his mirth was exhausted.†   (source)
  • His arms fanned in crazy circles as he tried to regain his balance, and Jamie jumped up in the water, laughing with the wild, uncouth mirth of a three-year-old.†   (source)
  • Johnnie smiled at the memory of how her mother laughed over the suggestion, with a drawing of slant brows above big, tragic dark eyes, a look of suffering from the mirth which adds the crown to joyousness.†   (source)
  • At first Eragon was shocked by her behavior, but then he noticed how her smiles never reached her eyes and how, if she thought no one was looking, the mirth would drain from her face and her expression would become one of somber quietude.†   (source)
  • He was laughing so hard, he found it impossible to continue, and he dropped to one knee while he gasped for air, tears of mirth streaming from his eyes.†   (source)
  • The deep black grooves isolating his square chin from his jowls were bent again in a kind of jeering and reprehensible mirth.†   (source)
  • Luciana fled mirthfully along the sidewalk in her high white wedgies, pulling Yossarian along in tow with the same lusty and ingenuous zeal she had displayed in the dance hall the night before and at every moment since.†   (source)
  • It took them a few stunned seconds to grasp it, while the cheerful, thumping chords went goose-stepping through the silence, sounding grotesquely irrelevant, like the mirth of a half-wit.†   (source)
  • Then there is the nuncheon, at noon or after as duties allow; and men gather for the daymeal, and such mirth as there still may be, about the hour of sunset.†   (source)
  • His mirth was infectious.†   (source)
  • Pregnant replies, mystic allusions, mistaken identities, arguing his father is his mother, that sort of thing; intimations of suicide, forgoing of exercise, loss of mirth, hints of claustrophobia not to say delusions of imprisonment; invocations of camels, chameleons, capons, whales, weasels, hawks, handsaws-riddles, quibbles and evasions; amnesia, paranoia, myopia; day-dreaming, hallucinations; stabbing his elders, abusing his parents, insulting his lover, and appearing hatless in…†   (source)
  • And in a spasm of strange mirth it flashed across Sophie's mind that in this psychotically ordered and scheduled household the wretched woman could only have sex on the fly, so to speak, vertically in an alcove behind a mammoth grand piano during these fleetingly few, precious and unprogrammed minutes after breakfast when the children were just off to the garrison school and before the beginning of daily routine.†   (source)
  • Yet in the wizard's face he saw at first only lines of care and sorrow; though as he looked more intently he perceived that under all there was a great joy: a fountain of mirth enough to set a kingdom laughing, were it to gush forth.†   (source)
  • Thus came Aragorn son of Arathorn, Elessar, Isildur's heir, out of the Paths of the Dead, borne upon a wind from the Sea to the kingdom of Gondor; and the mirth of the Rohirrim was a torrent of laughter and a flashing of swords, and the joy and wonder of the City was a music of trumpets and a ringing of bells.†   (source)
  • She was somewhat academically mirthful over the literary bacchanalia, as a professor in a Baptist college smacks his lips appetizingly and beams ruddily at his classes when he reads of sack and porter and tankards foaming with the musty ale.†   (source)
  • Half asleep, he heard the laughter and mirthful talk of Veslovsky and Stepan Arkadyevitch.†   (source)
  • "And there's nothing amusing, nothing mirthful, really.†   (source)
  • This conscious expression, since it was as far as possible from boyish mirthfulness, was usually attributed to insolence or "smartness."†   (source)
  • Melancholy mirth and mirthful melancholy—that's the reason why those primitives are cheering and dancing around the flames.†   (source)
  • It was, at least on the part of Clif and Mr. Babbitt, a mirthful affair, and when Martin had joined them in cocktails, St. Louis beer, and highballs, he saw that Clif was the most generous person now living, and Mr. George F. Babbitt a companion of charm.†   (source)
  • He called it smoke and mirrors, advised the prosecutor not to take this little game of tag so seriously, not to get so overheated, and spoke of the elastic turning points of which every circle consists, from its nonexistent beginning to its imaginary end, mentioning as well the mirthful melancholy of eternity, which has no permanent direction and keeps coming back onto itself—and spoke with such serene religiosity that it had a brief calming effect on the prosecutor.†   (source)
  • There was something so captivating in his light way of touching these fantastic strings, and he was such a mirthful child by the side of the graver childhood we had seen, that he made my guardian smile even as he turned towards us from a little private talk with Mrs. Blinder.†   (source)
  • By the diversity of her humour, in turn mystical or mirthful, talkative, taciturn, passionate, careless, she awakened in him a thousand desires, called up instincts or memories.†   (source)
  • But every one loved him, even to Remarkable Pettibone, to whom he occasioned some additional trouble, he was so frank, so sincere, and, at times, so mirthful.†   (source)
  • "Thanks, signor," replied Beatrice, with her rich voice, that came forth as it were like a gush of music, and with a mirthful expression half childish and half woman-like.†   (source)
  • Want of breath prevented a continuance of the song; and the breakdown attracted the attention of a firm-standing man of middle age, who kept each corner of his crescent-shaped mouth rigorously drawn back into his cheek, as if to do away with any suspicion of mirthfulness which might erroneously have attached to him.†   (source)
  • Here June laughed in her girlish, mirthful way, for to her scenes of violence were too familiar to leave impressions sufficiently deep to change her natural character.†   (source)
  • I am by no means such a mirthful person as you imagine, or as you may imagine; however, irritated by all this babble (and I feel that you are irritated) you think fit to ask me who I am--then my answer is, I am a collegiate assessor.†   (source)
  • An episode of humour or kindness touches and amuses him here and there—a pretty child looking at a gingerbread stall; a pretty girl blushing whilst her lover talks to her and chooses her fairing; poor Tom Fool, yonder behind the waggon, mumbling his bone with the honest family which lives by his tumbling; but the general impression is one more melancholy than mirthful.†   (source)
  • The spectators had indeed taken the proceedings throughout as a piece of mirthful irony carried to extremes; and had assumed that, being out of work, he was, as a consequence, out of temper with the world, and society, and his nearest kin.†   (source)
  • Having satisfied himself that Raskolnikov was not frightened at his threat, he assumed a mirthful and friendly air.†   (source)
  • As far as I am concerned, I have no longer any political opinions; let all me be rich, that is to say, mirthful, and I confine myself to that.†   (source)
  • The thoughts, too, that run around the ring of familiar guests have a piquancy and mirthfulness, and oftentimes a vivid truth, which more rarely find their way into the elaborate intercourse of dinner.†   (source)
  • Its owner smiled graciously on the young man; and the frown that she cast on Hurry, though simulated and pettish, had the effect to render her beauty more striking, by exhibiting the play of an expressive but capricious countenance; one that seemed to change from the soft to the severe, the mirthful to the reproving, with facility and indifference.†   (source)
  • Nor would it have been impracticable, in the observance of majestic ceremonies, to combine mirthful recreation with solemnity, and give, as it were, a grotesque and brilliant embroidery to the great robe of state, which a nation, at such festivals, puts on.†   (source)
  • Dolokhov looked at Pierre with clear, mirthful, cruel eyes, and that smile of his which seemed to say, "Ah!†   (source)
  • "I am going with you!" he kept shouting, laughing a thin mirthful laugh with a look of reckless glee in his face.†   (source)
  • …true, were none of the appliances which popular merriment would so readily have found in the England of Elizabeth's time, or that of James—no rude shows of a theatrical kind; no minstrel, with his harp and legendary ballad, nor gleeman with an ape dancing to his music; no juggler, with his tricks of mimic witchcraft; no Merry Andrew, to stir up the multitude with jests, perhaps a hundred years old, but still effective, by their appeals to the very broadest sources of mirthful sympathy.†   (source)
  • People who saw something pensive and sullen in his eyes were startled by his sudden laugh, which bore witness to mirthful and light-hearted thoughts at the very time when his eyes were so gloomy.†   (source)
  • Each time that the woman passed in front of him, he bestowed on her, together with a puff from his cigar, some apostrophe which he considered witty and mirthful, such as, "How ugly you are!†   (source)
  • Thereupon, Tholomyes lowered his voice and articulated something so mirthful, that a vast and enthusiastic grin broke out upon the four mouths simultaneously, and Blachevelle exclaimed, "That is an idea."†   (source)
  • Betsy broke into unexpectedly mirthful and irrepressible laughter, a thing which rarely happened with her.†   (source)
  • Levin felt envious of this health and mirthfulness; he longed to take part in the expression of this joy of life.†   (source)
  • He looked at her with serious eyes, but she responded with that defiant, half-mirthful, half-desperate look, the meaning of which he could not comprehend.†   (source)
  • He felt so mirthful that, contrary to his rules, he made a reduction in his terms to the haggling lady, and gave up catching moths, finally deciding that next winter he must have the furniture covered with velvet, like Sigonin's.†   (source)
  • He slapped his leg with his hand and almost rolled on the ground in his mirth.†   (source)
  • You find his misfortune the subject of mirth?†   (source)
  • At this the Friesians explode with mirth.†   (source)
  • Mustapha Mond's anger gave place almost at once to mirth.†   (source)
  • There was no mirth in it, nothing in it.†   (source)
  • Gant grinned with a thin false painting of mirth.†   (source)
  • Byron's face cracks with that grimace faint, fleeting, sardonic, weary, without mirth.†   (source)
  • And when the whicker of his mirth had died away, Slade said: "I reckin I have.†   (source)
  • He felt he would burst soon if he couldn't give outlet to his swollen mirth.†   (source)
  • Finally Melly wiped tears of mirth from her eyes.†   (source)
  • Clacking like nine-pins before a heavy bowl of mirth they tumbled about the sidewalk.†   (source)
  • John Dorsey looked up, adding uncertainly his absent falsetto mirth.†   (source)
  • His lip lifts: a thin movement almost à shadow, without mirth.†   (source)
  • There was another long howl of mirth above.†   (source)
  • There was no cessation of mirth in that, either.†   (source)
  • 'And before the war he was on the music hall stage,' mused Miss Henderson, trying to reconcile the distinguished grey-haired Colonel Clapperton with a red-nosed comedian singing mirth-provoking songs.†   (source)
  • For a moment she looked at it as if she had never seen it before and then she began to laugh, peal on peal of mirth that had in it no hint of hysteria.†   (source)
  • There were moments now when her laugh sounded a little hollow and brittle, the laughter of nerves not of mirth or good spirits.†   (source)
  • Now that the King and you are in amity, Clergy and laity may return to gaiety, Mirth and —sportfulness need not walk warily, Thomas.†   (source)
  • Then Bilbo longed to escape from the dark fortress and to go down and join in the mirth and feasting by the fires.†   (source)
  • As we shook hands he burst into a loud, seemingly causeless laugh; and as he guffawed I could not tell whether his mirth was directed at me or was meant to hide his uneasiness.†   (source)
  • He was laughing— strong teeth and head thrown back-and his laughter, sleeve within larger sleeve of mirth, opened like a telescope, rich, warm, contagious.†   (source)
  • The words could not be recognized, only their quality; the quality of abandon and insolence, with high shrieks of mirth once in a while.†   (source)
  • And he laughed so heartily that the guests all laughed to see his mirth and Wang Lung thought to himself that if only O-lan had been up from her bed it would have been a merry day.†   (source)
  • Then the young man answered, smiling crookedly and without any meaning of mirth, "It is an odd thing for the wedding to cost ten times as much as the bride.†   (source)
  • Fare forward, shun two files of shadows : Mirth merrymaking, melting strength in sweetness, Fiddling to feebleness, doomed to disdain; And godlovers' longings, lost in God.†   (source)
  • There was mourning and weeping, where but a little time ago the old songs of mirth to come had been sung about the dwarves.†   (source)
  • He laughed, too, throwing back his head as though he enjoyed laughter, thinking her mirth came from the friendly treachery of the men who had given Melly's secret away.†   (source)
  • Mirth matches melancholy.†   (source)
  • Their gloaming hair was twined with flowers; green and white gems glinted on their collars and their belts; and their faces and their songs were filled with mirth.†   (source)
  • And he turned to Duffy and me, and explained, before mirth again took him and Slade's back room again resounded with the cheerful note of the breeding paddock, "Willie—Willie—he married a school-teacher!†   (source)
  • Again that mad cry of mirth.†   (source)
  • "It must be Captain Rhett Butler," said Melanie slyly and they exploded with mirth at this absurdity, knowing how Scarlett hated him and never failed to refer to him as "that skunk, Rhett Butler."†   (source)
  • There they were, smelling of the earth and Parnassus—that strange clan which met only at weddings or funerals, but which was forever true to itself, indissoluble and forever apart, with its melancholia, its madness, its mirth: more enduring than life, more strong than death.†   (source)
  • …inwardleaning heads, smoking steadily, lighting and throwing away their constant cigarettes, and the waitress, the woman not much larger than a child going back and forth to the kitchen with her arms overladen with dishes, having to pass on each journey within touching distance of the men who leaned with their slanted hats and spoke to her through the cigarette smoke, murmured to her somewhere near mirth or exultation, and her face musing, demure, downcast, as if she had not heard.†   (source)
  • Mirth infected Polly.†   (source)
  • They howled with mirth.†   (source)
  • His turbulent and undisciplined rhetoric had acquired, by the regular convention of its usage, something of the movement and directness of classical epithet: his similes were preposterous, created really in a spirit of vulgar mirth, and the great comic intelligence that was in the family—down to the youngest—was shaken daily by it.†   (source)
  • Yet his voice held again that ambiguous quality, that quality hearty and completely empty and completely without pleasure or mirth, like a shell, like something he carried before his face and watched Joe through it, which in the past had caused Joe to look at Max with something between puzzlement and anger.†   (source)
  • In a moment, he strode away, and the doctor turned to Falstaff, reading the man by his padded belly, briskly, with relief: "Now, Tragedy, begone, and to our dell Bring antic Jollity with cap and bells: Falstaff, thou prince of jesters, lewd old man Who surfeited a royal prince with mirth, And swayed a kingdom with his wanton quips—"†   (source)
  • But she was used to violent men who expressed mirth over mirthless jokes.†   (source)
  • These serious Mormons and silent Navajos were capable of mirth.†   (source)
  • What was comedy to them was tragedy to her; and she could hardly bear their mirth.†   (source)
  • A little wave of quiet mirth broke forth over the class of boys from the rector's grim smile.†   (source)
  • He threw his entire attention upon his work, now, as if determined not to be put down by the mirth.†   (source)
  • Lomax's too long suppressed mirth explodes in agonized neighings.†   (source)
  • He laughed, and it was the first time I had heard honest mirth in his voice.†   (source)
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