All 12 Uses of
mirth
in
Anna Karenina
- And she laughed a mirthless laugh.†
Part 1
- The cowherd girls, picking up their petticoats, ran splashing through the mud with bare legs, still white, not yet brown from the sun, waving brush wood in their hands, chasing the calves that frolicked in the mirth of spring.†
Part 2 *
- Levin felt envious of this health and mirthfulness; he longed to take part in the expression of this joy of life.†
Part 3
- Betsy broke into unexpectedly mirthful and irrepressible laughter, a thing which rarely happened with her.†
Part 3
- 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.†
Part 4
- "And I'm oppressed and humiliated that they won't engage me at the Foundling," the old prince said again, to the huge delight of Turovtsin, who in his mirth dropped his asparagus with the thick end in the sauce.†
Part 4
- All these acquaintances he observed with difficulty concealing their mirth at something; the same mirth that he had perceived in the lawyer's eyes, and just now in the eyes of this groom.†
Part 4
- All these acquaintances he observed with difficulty concealing their mirth at something; the same mirth that he had perceived in the lawyer's eyes, and just now in the eyes of this groom.†
Part 4
- 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.†
Part 5
- Half asleep, he heard the laughter and mirthful talk of Veslovsky and Stepan Arkadyevitch.†
Part 6
- The peasants had all got up from the cart and were inquisitively and mirthfully staring at the meeting of the friends, making their comments on it.†
Part 6
- "And there's nothing amusing, nothing mirthful, really.†
Part 7
Definition:
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(mirth) fun and laughter