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fun and laughter

mirth = fun and laughter

Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.
William Shakespeare -- Love's Labour's Lost

mirth = fun and laughter

He felt no mirth or humor and wondered if there'd ever be a time again when he would.
James Dashner -- The Maze Runner

mirth = fun and laughter

Then Bilbo longed to escape from the dark fortress and to go down and join in the mirth and feasting by the fires.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Hobbit

mirth = fun and laughter

Where is our usual manager of mirth?
William Shakespeare -- A Midsummer Night's Dream

mirth = fun and laughter

With one last bark of mirth, he rose up, slow.
Ray Bradbury -- Something Wicked This Way Comes

mirth = fun and laughter

Whatever she smiled at—at him, at a chicken liver, at nothing—it disturbed him that her smile could have no root in mirth, or even in amusement.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Winter Dreams

mirth = fun and laughter

mirth = fun and laughter

No, that were pity;
I would entreat you rather to put on
Your boldest suit of mirth, for we have friends
That purpose merriment.
William Shakespeare -- The Merchant of Venice

mirth = fun

I don't know whether she found it as mirthful as Papa, but she seemed to enjoy it some.
Robert Newton Peck -- A Day No Pigs Would Die

mirthful = full of fun and laughter

Thus far the elder traveller had listened with due gravity; but now burst into a fit of irrepressible mirth, shaking himself so violently that...
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Young Goodman Brown

mirth = fun and laughter

mirth = fun (or happiness)

Trying valiantly to laugh along with everyone else, he got up, his feet numb from the weight of the dwarf, as Percy Weasley did his best to disperse the crowd, some of whom were crying with mirth.
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

mirth = fun and laughter

Not quite so miserable as to be insensible to mirth.
Jane Austen -- Emma
Lawson leaped to his feet, with a sudden, mirthful grin, and ran out of the room.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
The doctor did not answer, but he gave a chuckle of bitter mirth.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
But a smile without mirth, without depth, just an arrangement of flesh.
Robert Cormier -- After the First Death
At my appearance (which was indeed comical enough, however tragic a fate these garments covered) the driver could not conceal his mirth.
Robert Louis Stevenson -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
His face showed evident mirth.
Trenton Lee Stewart -- The Mysterious Benedict Society
He chuckles, a dark sound that's made all the more disturbing by the undercurrent of genuine mirth.
Susan Ee -- Angelfall

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