All 8 Uses of
mirth
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- The mirth, which in the beginning of the evening had seemed to him false and trivial, was like a soothing air to him, passing gaily by his senses, hiding from other eyes the feverish agitation of his blood while through the circling of the dancers and amid the music and laughter her glance travelled to his corner, flattering, taunting, searching, exciting his heart.†
Chpt 2
- This welcome ended in a soft peal of mirthless laughter as Heron salaamed and then began to poke the ground with his cane.†
Chpt 2
- A soft peal of mirthless laughter escaped from his lips and, bending down as before, he struck Stephen lightly across the calf of the leg with his cane, as if in jesting reproof.†
Chpt 2
- For one rare moment he seemed to be clothed in the real apparel of boyhood: and, as he stood in the wings among the other players, he shared the common mirth amid which the drop scene was hauled upwards by two able-bodied priests with violent jerks and all awry.†
Chpt 2
- A little wave of quiet mirth broke forth over the class of boys from the rector's grim smile.†
Chpt 3 *
- Smiling at the trivial air he raised his eyes to the priest's face and, seeing in it a mirthless reflection of the sunken day, detached his hand slowly which had acquiesced faintly in the companionship.†
Chpt 4
- As he descended the steps the impression which effaced his troubled self-communion was that of a mirthless mask reflecting a sunken day from the threshold of the college.†
Chpt 4
- The student's body shook all over and, to ease his mirth, he rubbed both his hands delightedly over his groins.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(mirth) fun and laughter