It went down reasonably well and people laughed at the appropriate moments thank God. |
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Brad laughed a bit, his laughter ending in a slight wince as the pain flared up again. |
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But Musgrave, in his sturdy, common-sense way, only laughed at her seriousness over such kickshaws. |
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They laughed and hurried sheepishly downstairs, leaving the key on the reception desk in the hotel lobby. |
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He winked and laughed at his joke, putting a friendly arm around her shoulders. |
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He laughed, placing his arms over mine, intertwining our fingers and wrapping both our arms around my upper torso. |
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She laughed and Eddie chuckled at her fond recollections of her mischievous nephew. |
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When an Italian politician proposed that Italy should exit the euro area and return to the lira, specialists just laughed. |
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He laughed aloud in wonder, and smiled benevolently down at the recumbent figure in his lap. |
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She even laughed in the witness box under re-examination from the prosecutor. |
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Women, they say, laughed more at jokes involving wordplay, while men preferred more aggressive humor. |
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The two men laughed and looked knowingly at each other, then disappeared around the corner. |
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Everyone laughed and nodded knowingly as Crystal joked about offending her roommate with her stinky jars of Asian food. |
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A small boy laughed at me on the street and shouted something about girls and tongues so I pinned him down and knuckled his head. |
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I laughed when I read it because it is such an apt and true description of where I've ended up. |
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He laughed when I told him about Pavlov's later turn and about the accusation that he had knuckled under to the nomenklatura. |
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Sunday was the day I had fun and laughed without any sort of trouble or lingering worry. |
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In many other cultures he'd be laughed at, and sent to a psychiatrist for being tied to his mother's apron strings. |
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They have signed all the autographs, laughed and joked among themselves and smiled upon all who smiled. |
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The filthy thug laughed giddily, his voice slowly rising in pitch until it became an ear-piercing shriek. |
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I told her that one of my best friends at the time had a crush on her and she just laughed and thought it was ridiculous. |
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The children, ever resilient, laughed and drank deeply from the truck's spigot. |
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He laughed, knowing her admission was an effort to inject some levity back into a situation that had grown uncomfortably serious. |
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I made griddled salmon with steamed broccoli and courgettes, and we talked, and laughed, and my Dad opened a lovely bottle of Chardonnay. |
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I would have laughed if this conversation weren't revolving around him being a murderer. |
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Bill lent me a copy of his latest book and I have to tell you I laughed until I cried reading this book. |
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He took a drag from his cigarette, then blew the smoke at the camera and laughed. |
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He laughed at this statement, and his eyes, which had begun to mist over now sparkled brightly with animation. |
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Her mother laughed her shrill little laugh, and Halle saw Sam pull out an animal cracker. |
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The woman laughed, shook out her hair and waved a leathered hand in the air. |
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She laughed as well, loving the feel of his voice resounding through his chest. |
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Jade laughed and turned away, getting a closer look at the river plants and lily pads. |
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I think a lot of immigration lawyers like myself laughed when we heard about the laxness of our immigration system. |
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They laughed like men reprieved, and when the bottle of whisky was finished Staten gripping it by the neck flung it far out to sea. |
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I laughed myself silly over her comparison of children to terrorists, and her tales of her domineering, movie star mother. |
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I wouldn't say the crowd laughed themselves sick, but I was regretting not bringing the video camera for Kirsty's home videos. |
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The author's name has caused untold hilarity among Britain's schoolboy humour forum, and I've laughed myself silly. |
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I suspect that they dare not make the threat plainly because they know they would be laughed out of court. |
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Anyone who tried to put it into an election manifesto would be laughed out of court. |
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And then laughed on the other side of his face when my answer turned out to be correct, ahem. |
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A friend of mine in her 50s who was active in the women's movement through the 70s laughed like a drain when I told her that. |
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It's so obvious and not even that original but somehow the joke had never occurred to me and I laughed like a drain. |
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If you'd walked up to me over a year ago and said I will be going to the gym twice a week within a few months, I would have laughed in your face. |
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He looked back at his friend over his shoulder and laughed a short, hearty laugh. |
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She laughed a tinkling little laugh, and I wondered if she even knew about Becca. |
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Ordinarily, Alexander's slip in the radio studio would be laughed off as a joke. |
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To say that I have found motherhood fulfilling and rewarding is sneered and laughed at. |
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I laughed all the way through and in the end I left the cinema grinning from ear to ear. |
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As we waited to go out again, we sat in a circle, laughed and ate hot cross buns. |
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We laughed, we flirted and we agreed to continue having the great talks we have together. |
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He liked the way sometimes a little crease wrinkled the side of her nose when she laughed. |
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He then laughed in a way that sane people do not laugh and asked for ten male volunteers. |
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She told me herself and I laughed until my eyes leaked tears and my nose leaked snot. |
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They really laughed and asked some good questions and most of them bought a book. |
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Kate laughed as she looked at him, wondering just what was going through his mind. |
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She laughed until the tears attempted to roll up her appley cheeks and she had to beg for mercy. |
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Will laughed quietly and I looked up to see him nodding, looking at me softly with a smile. |
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I told her she had already sent one and she laughed and said her memory was going. |
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The script had jokes in it, you could tell, but no one laughed because of the timing. |
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Your excitement was infectious as you laughed and gasped as we were whirled and twisted. |
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Rarely, he remarked afterwards, had an audience laughed so heartily at his jokes. |
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Amy laughed hysterically at her joke and placed the items on the conveyer belt. |
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To my horror and amazement, everyone on the boat laughed, grabbed their masks and fins and jumped in. |
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Raymond, enraged at being laughed at, charged forward and tried landing the first strike. |
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The three of us all laughed at my rather lame joke, then my mother continued conversation. |
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All the kids around the playground laughed hysterically at this pathetic joke. |
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Money meant that no one laughed behind her back when she called magazines books. |
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He shook his head and laughed in merriment as if to smooth Big Freddie's ruffled feathers. |
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Isabella laughed as she sprayed on her perfume then looped her arm through mine. |
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I laughed at her comical expression and threw her a bright red sweater with funny loops and dots all over it. |
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Slight eccentricities are curtailed with gentle mocking, and social aberrations are laughed off the set. |
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Everyone laughed and chatted as they passed the dishes, a soft breeze from the ocean wafting up the mountainside. |
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His thin arms waggled around in the air balancing himself on on his stool as he laughed with conviction at everything. |
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Janelle laughed as Shane and Tristan rehashed old tour memories, hoping she at least looked like she was paying attention. |
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The relatives had all gathered round for one last kind word to them, and many still laughed and joked with rubicund cheeks and loose tongues. |
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He laughed and wandered farther down Moonglow Road until he came to a lone house on the deserted street. |
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People seem ashamed to voice their religious views for fear of being laughed at. |
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I then had to lie there, for five minutes, as boys on bikes rode past and laughed at me. |
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We've laughed at a bloke riding past on a bike and almost falling off as he tried to see through our window. |
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Taro laughed and then skirted around the edge of the dance floor toward the public water closet. |
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I put my arm through his, and waved too, and they laughed at the sight of two gangly teenagers travelling in a trolley. |
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The nurse simply laughed at this, observing that I was indeed alive and kicking, and simply moved on to the next passenger. |
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One morning, when all the boxes were visible, and even with one lady waving the lorry down, the dustmen just laughed and drove on. |
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What made the visit unusual was that along with the rest of the audience, the President laughed freely in response to the jokes and jests. |
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The gray-furred Child laughed, cavorting around the confused guards like a court jester in a medieval kingdom. |
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Again Alexandria laughed at his young ways, but still was taken aback at the beautiful regality she saw in the golden-haired youth. |
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David laughed at the idea, and Kate seemed to sigh before starting to massage the place at the bridge of her nose where her glasses rest. |
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She just laughed and handed me some ointment that I rubbed on and, as I write this, I'm still hobbling around the office. |
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He laughed at the looks directed his way for the teasing, then went upstairs. |
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The men around her laughed and acted as though it was the cleverest thing they had seen. |
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Something laughed outside the door, a poisonous sound that suddenly jogged his memory and mind. |
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I laughed and told them to come on back anytime and join in the festivities. |
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Gracien laughed and joked a lot, Eva was smiling and quiet, and Rosie was funny in a sarcastic manner. |
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She laughed to herself as she stepped directly behind Liam and twisted his chair around. |
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She laughed softly until tears welled in her eyes and spilled down her cheeks. |
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Once Keaton laughed so hard he scared all the birds within a ten-foot radius out of their perches. |
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The three men laughed and continued the jovial remarks until their lunches arrived. |
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The lads were ragging me about that, declaring I had lost my touch, he laughed. |
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He laughed at my joyful tears and gave me a kiss, while wiping my eyes with the sleeve of his shirt. |
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As if noting the internal annoyance raging behind my eyes, the boy in front of me laughed, his eyes lighting up as he did so. |
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His son seemed happy and laughed joyfully at not only himself, but also the absurdities of life. |
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We trained, sparred, fought, ate, and laughed together ever since childhood. |
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There was a moment of awkward silence until a phone ringing made them all jump, then they laughed, embarrassed that they were so easily startled. |
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When I related to them how, on one jump, I was caught in a thermal updraft and was actually going up instead of down, they laughed in disbelief. |
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I demanded that she tell me what was wrong, but she just laughed and said that she had a secret admirer. |
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I realized I must look rather intimidating so I relaxed and laughed so as not to scare everyone further. |
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I laughed all of a sudden and propped myself on my elbows, my arms crossed on the table. |
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She laughed a bit and they continued on their way, James whining every once in a while. |
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The phone rang again this time her mother answered, she laughed and rattled something off in Spanish. |
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They'd watched a raunchy comedy and almost everyone in the audience had laughed. |
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Freya laughed, and shook her head, watching the 3 of them wrestle on the ground. |
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Owen laughed and I continued entertaining him with impressions until we pulled up to the curb of his house. |
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He laughed and looked at his plate, as if he was embarrassed for reading my emotions wrong. |
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His mom laughed softly, sitting next to her son on the area rug that covered part of the smooth stone floor. |
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He laughed and thumped the table in appreciation, then twisted his fist in front of his nose, miming a snout. |
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The Cheyennes and Lakotas would have dissented, and assuredly the American trappers who reached the Crow country shortly after Larocque's visit would have laughed heartily. |
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As to why badminton is largely ignored, or even laughed, at in the US, Jiang threw the question right back. |
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Now benny lifted his head up, slapped his knee, and laughed so hard that he almost tumbled over backward. |
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It being the early 1950s, everybody was blind drunk and laughed uproariously. |
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The audience laughed at the bluntness, and at the expectation that an answer could be had so easily. |
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She chuckled a bit in her confessional Irish brogue, and members of the audience laughed. |
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She laughed and joked with well-wishers during a walkabout after signing a charter to mark the official launch of the city's new super-university. |
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So she laughed and chirped and pointed and giggled and then sobbed, the fear rising in her throat as they got closer to the house. |
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There was a quirkish smile on her face, and she laughed at herself. |
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He laughed weakly, leaning against the metal bar, trying to sound normal. |
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I then tried to weasel my way into the audience's affection, assuring punters that if they laughed at all my gags everyone would get their money back on the way out. |
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He laughed as he turned onto the highway in the neon green street racer. |
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Looking at her in surprise, he laughed and for a while, both of them beamed at each other, chortling with jollity, seeming like the carefree children they once were. |
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He laughed and I noticed there was a wheezy rattle in his throat. |
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Consequently, the leery wide boys responsible laughed in the face of the law for two years before the police finally found witnesses prepared to testify. |
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He recounted how she had taken the letters, and the two men laughed. |
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Although its gross, flatulent Scotsman was pretty near the knuckle, most of us forgave Mike Myers that particular piece of stereotyping and laughed anyway. |
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She felt her cousin wriggle beneath her when she landed on top of him, and she laughed, pleased with herself for turning his own trick back on him. |
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I sniffed them and wrinkled my nose and the nurse, Nurse Annie, laughed. |
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Joel sank into the couch, smiling, while Ethan threw a balled-up eraser against the wall and laughed. |
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And she laughed, laughed at how happy, gay, and carefree her tone sounded. |
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The man laughed heartily and walked over to the door, relocking it. |
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Ryan's ads were laughed at as amateurish, but they apparently worked. |
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He almost laughed out loud at how clumsy he had been at that age. |
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With the tension broken, both men laughed heartily at the thought. |
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Matt laughed so hard that he snorted and it only made us laugh harder. |
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He said if he took it to court, given the circumstances, he would be laughed out of court and would have a hard time even finding anyone to take the case. |
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It's not too far-fetched to say the paper was laughed out of court. |
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All three nearly passed out as they laughed themselves sick. |
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He told me that they had all laughed the comment to scorn, but that now he had been somewhere with no decent plumbing he had to conclude that it was the simple truth. |
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I actually laughed out loud during the scene, partly as a temporary reprieve from the tension, partly out of sheer admiration for Anderson's gifts. |
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With that, he pushed Amy under the water and when she resurfaced, he laughed and made her kick her feet so that they would get to the island faster. |
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We laughed hard, harder even than those nameless, faceless laughers in whatever mysterious locale Bill Cosby was performing. |
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I don't know how many times I've had conversations with friends where we joked and laughed about the lickings we got from our parents, and sometimes our teachers. |
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He laughed and pointed to the group of surfboard riders, saying that four of them were also experienced lifesavers who would be able to assist him in an instant. |
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It's not too funny now but I remember than we had laughed like crazy. |
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She laughed at that and looked at him with one eyebrow arched. |
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In one group of patients who recovered from locked-in syndrome, six out of 44 reported visual deficits and 39 stated that they cried or laughed more easily since the onset. |
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Asked, if Christie is so terrible, why he would want to punish the people of the Garden State with his presence, Tancredo laughed. |
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England's batting hero shrugged off such trifling concerns, laughed at the nine fielders posted on boundary patrol, and promptly lofted a six over them. |
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Desiree laughed then turned round heading back to the rooms. |
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They were the first longhorns in the territory and Elisha kept them hidden in a back pasture so he wouldn't be laughed at for spending money on the rangy beasts. |
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Syd laughed and walked over to me then looped her arms around my neck. |
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Little Red Riding Hood donked the Big Bad Wolf on the head with the basket and the audience laughed. |
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The little dog laughed to see such sport, and the dish ran away with the spoon. |
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He was a shoemaker, the creature, and called himself the Sutor, an old-fashioned name that folk laughed at. |
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He had no fear of Keefer's higher military rank. He was sure the communicator laughed at such gradings. |
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How they must have laughed about the strutting of her whose mother was a wanton and aunt a gin! |
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She threw back her head and laughed and tugged at two young mulatto children with blondish hair. |
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I played that demo for them on my phone and they laughed out loud. |
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Besides, the Dalai Lama had already laughed about its improbability. |
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O'Connell laughed it off as Aussie kidology back in June and said Ireland must do likewise this weekend. |
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Paolo caught me, laughed raucously and high-fived me with the line, 'No way man, you're Cat-bombing my pictures. |
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Ambrose laughed as he lurched backwards and then clomped with his gold-tipped walking stick to the bed. |
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Here Hans Sachs, the cobbler-poet, laureate of the gentle craft, Wisest of the Twelve Wise Masters, in huge folios sang and laughed. |
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We laughed and whooped and clapped and danced and hugged each other. |
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We laughed about getting lost in New York City and had chai. |
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He laughed, a high-pitched chirp that sounded like a castrato. |
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The lady laughed whinnyingly and probed with questing fingers at her back hair. |
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The werecrocodile laughed at him, the feral grin of a predator displaying nightmarish fangs. |
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Hex laughed and Rory started, realizing he'd been dropping his guard with the traitorous exgod. |
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She laughed, for she had just named sadhanas that required a female consort. |
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The simplicity which is so large an element in a noble nature was laughed to scorn. |
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His jaw was underhung, and when he laughed, two white buckteeth protruded themselves and glistened savagely in the midst of the grin. |
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His ideal of a woman looked up at Tom Smith's great sun-burnt Lincoln-like face, umbrellaed by the fateful sombrero, and laughed. |
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We then tell the public and get laughed at and called crazy tinfoil hatters and then it happens just as we said it would. |
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At school, despite his sharp mind, Malcolm was laughed at by teachers when he said he wanted to be a lawyer. |
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At which Miss Sara Derwent laughed, and asked who wrote that very pretty poetry? |
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She laughed but only for a little bit. She smiled at me, I think to make sure that I knew she wasn't laughing at me. |
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Again Puck translated to Kadmiel in the strange, solemn-sounding language, and at last Kadmiel laughed. |
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Cheyenne started laughing. Really. She threw back her bunny-earmuffed head and laughed. |
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He left negative feedback and vowed vengeance but the seller just laughed as she negged him back. |
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As for Mr. Vashishta, he laughed in embarrassment as he recalled misdialing 911 not once but twice in a weekend. |
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Miriam laughed again, but mirthlessly, to hear him thus mix her up with women in a general way. |
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And presently he grew conscious that the gods had played a very good practical joke on him, and he laughed at himself mirthlessly. |
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A few of the symphonygoers who stood on the sidewalk began to understand what was going on and laughed. |
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The two aunts laughed heartily, too, for Gabriel's solicitude was a standing joke with them. |
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He could not endure his airs as a man of fashion, and laughed heartily at his pompous braggadocio stories. |
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But in an interview with BBC Sport at the time Bruno laughed at the story and denied he had any intention of standing. |
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He watched her go with a grin and nearly laughed again when he saw the signs on the bathroom doors. Wenches and Mateys. Good God. |
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The full ludicrousness of the thing dawned upon me so forcibly that I forgot all about my excitement and scare, and laughed aloud. |
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Here the leather-legginged boy laughed very heartily, and then tried to look as if it was somebody else, whereat Mr. Winkle frowned majestically. |
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She laughed at my attempt, and I got a pull of the ears for daring to blinden myself. |
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The claim that his dog wrote the poems was laughed out of court by publishers. |
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Von Rosen laughed at the girl holding up her hand and staring at the beringed finger. |
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And I laughed heartily at the Kopi Aunty video which captures so well an everyday slice of life here. |
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Zoey laughed at Logan's jerkish behavior, then stepped closer to the older blond guy. |
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When Felicity joked that I should be called homosexless, I laughed because I thought it was funny. |
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I watched Jeb Bush as his brother spoke. He paid attention, grinned and laughed, even ad-libbed when called upon. |
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Perhaps I was afraid of being laughed at if the mysterious item turned out to be a hambone, a distinct possibility. |
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He laughed, but the comment stung. It always had. It meant that even his closest friends saw him as inauthentic, the fake McCoy, a Halfrican. |
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Stratonike laughed, great gutfuls of loud raucous laughter that carried across the crowd. |
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After his last suggestion was laughed at by his colleagues, he was gunshy about making another suggestion. |
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They laughed and chattered, and passed each other sustaining bits of chocolate in torn silver paper. |
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Everyone laughed again, as Zoar removed a piece of wrapped-up, cookielike pastry from a belt-pack he wore. |
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We would have been laughed off the street in Philadelphia if we were seen wearing sneaks. In the big city, the young population wore loafers or boots. |
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I looked at him signifyingly and he laughed, all rancor gone. |
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One guy farted repeatedly and laughed out loud each time he let it out. To top off his disgusting behavior, he constantly picked his nose and thumped the waste in the air. |
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Now halting a few paces before the Captains of the West he looked them up and down and laughed. 'Is there any in this rout with authority to treat with me?' he asked. |
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He pushed his straw hat back, scratched his head, and laughed ruefully. |
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He had a piratelike gold tooth in the deepness of his mouth, which Jason once glimpsed in the cafeteria line when the guy tossed his head back and laughed. |
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The bullies laughed and whistled and the tinnie turned once more, this time racing straight towards them from the port beam, bows tilted up, spray creaming out. |
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Campbell laughed a quiet under-laugh, half sad,half humorous. |
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Eliza laughed slyly, passing her finger under her wide nosewing. |
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Two Fermanagh girls who never laughed were certain that he must have served time in a bridewell, so cold was his expression and so calloused his small hands. |
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Ivan Boesky laughed all the way to the bank, as did Milken, as do most people who commit clever, non-violent crimes and fraudulently enrich themselves. |
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Michelle the jillaroo laughed when she saw my riding helmet. |
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Miss Mamie Lee had a big belly that jobbled when she laughed. |
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The men took it as a huge joke, and at every pause laughed consumedly. |
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Samuel was stern, serious and deeply in earnest. He seldom smiled and never laughed. He was uncompromisingly religious, conscientious and morally unbending. |
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Ernest laughed harshly and savagely when he had gained the street. |
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I laughed at his theatrics and took the Tim Tam he offered me. |
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And folks laughed at Santos Dumont, at the Wrights, and at all the other fellows, who said they could take a heavier-than-air machine, and skim above the clouds like a bird. |
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Dressed in a blue Mao suit, Kim laughed and slapped his hands on the table before him during the game as he sat nearly knee to knee with Rodman, Fox News reports. |
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The crowd guffawed loudly and the Rugger Blue laughed vinously. |
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