Both Uses of
mirth
in
Dubliners
- The smile soon faded from Aunt Julia's face and her mirthless eyes were directed towards her nephew's face.†
Chpt 15
- Mr. Browne, whose face was once more wrinkling with mirth, poured out for himself a glass of whisky while Freddy Malins exploded, before he had well reached the climax of his story, in a kink of high-pitched bronchitic laughter and, setting down his untasted and overflowing glass, began to rub the knuckles of his left fist backwards and forwards into his left eye, repeating words of his last phrase as well as his fit of laughter would allow him.†
Chpt 15 *
Definition:
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(mirth) fun and laughter