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Sentence Examples
| The uncharacteristic show of mirth tweaked the heat he'd incited when he'd given her the boost up and over the last boulder. |
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| They soon subsided into a bout of laughter while tears of mirth glistened in their eyes. |
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| Ordinarily, this is the kind of footballers cliche which raises much mirth among fans, but on this occasion he may have had a point. |
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| Laughter, joy and mirth should be considered some of our most primary objectives. |
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| It is in these moments of mirth that perhaps the true genius of the Celtic Tenors is captured. |
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| He started laughing, throwing back his head in cheer as he slapped his knee in mirth. |
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| Each and every one found themselves at the centre of the fun and mirth of the occasion at some time over the weekend. |
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| It can't be any worse than any of the tales of mirth and woe I've got lined up. |
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| Their manic scramble was a source of considerable mirth to those of us cheering them on. |
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| I aspire to be recognised for quality writing, for consistent humor and mirth. |
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| It always returns as pangs of memories about mirth and joy veiled by a distant past. |
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| Whilst this provides a source of mirth for others, I find it downright irritating. |
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| She was still struggling to breath through gales of silvery laughter, and her soulful blue eyes were narrowed to tiny slits with mirth. |
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| And in the bowers of the fields and verges, we hear them in our restless sleep, in mirth. |
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| But even the reviewer can find mirth and consolation, in a bawdy Britcom, or a backyard fight between a raccoon and a cat. |
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| As one, the Greek defenders start high-fiving each other, while the rest of the team roll around on the ground in paroxysms of mirth. |
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| They thought that was hilarious, and linked arms, shaking with mirth like hysterical Siamese twins. |
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| It is a sure sign of mirth when the beards of the guests shake with laughter. |
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| Davis felt a burst of mirth within him, for he knew the symbol well but could not comprehend how he could see black in a pitch-black environment. |
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| They still held mirth and amusement, as if this was about to be a playful exhibition rather than a fight to the death. |
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| Most of this is cringingly awful and is made worse by the fact that if there is a studio audience in England it goes wild with mirth. |
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| Young people there exude gaiety and mirth, for who could be cynical about love in Italy while thinking of Shakespeare's play? |
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| With this in mind he has once again updated his delightful pages of mirth and charitable good humor. |
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| They are pictured as happy students borne aloft on gusts of mirth from their adoring audiences. |
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| Customers and staff alike doubled up in gales of mirth and McIlrath fled empty-handed from the premises. |
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| But the mirth is fleeting and the hysterical laughter, I suspect, is triggered more by nervous tension than by a wicked sense of humour. |
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| Yes I know this must come as a shock to you since I am normally such a gay and carefree chap, brimming with chuckles and mirth. |
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| As well as provoking mirth, the alleged meanness of Scots is also a powerful marketing tool. |
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| Once resurfacing from the water, hair in his eyes, he could see Jo laughing, not so discreetly slapping her thigh in mirth. |
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| Why does the lightsomeness and variety of a more airy landscape suggest to us the idea of gaiety and social mirth? |
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| His gray-green eyes sparkled with laughter and mirth, as he slung an arm around Jess, his hand teasing her hair affectionately. |
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| This provoked an outburst of uproarious, thigh-slapping mirth among the beefy barons of Novosti. |
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| Blaise smiled her secretive smile, the corners of her mouth twitching in hidden mirth, and she switched her grip on the hilt of her sword. |
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| He embraces his newfound friend in the throes of passion and turns to look at me, his eyes full of mirth. |
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| There was no uncertainty, no wavering, no hesitation, nor was there any mirth, any pleasure, any satisfaction. |
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| Amid the federal election's accusations and recriminations, snake bites and bear-baiting, a bit of mirth did manage to sneak in. |
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| Merry and Pippin develop strongly, as they do in the book, but still hold their mirth and merriment. |
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| Still, enough of this mirth and merriment, just because it's Friday doesn't mean we should go to pieces. |
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| Then it is time for mirth and merriment, as he fulfils all his little wishes. |
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| Walking down the corridors of Pittodrie Stadium is like running a gauntlet of mirth and merriment. |
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| The titter of laughter that went up at the end of many choruses was composed of a mixture of mirth and self-recognition. |
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| It is a strong combination of mirth and sorrow, made real by the lives of believable characters. |
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| The roars, belike, would have gradually subsided in dreadful rumblings of more than utterable or conquerable mirth. |
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| His face full of mirth, Owen put an arm around her and touched her stomach softly. |
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| In the end her kindness changes her life forever, finds her a guy and more than makes up for lost mirth. |
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| Given the mood of gloom that has spread across the markets perhaps it is best to begin with a spot of mirth. |
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| There's naturally rapturous applause intertwined with mirth and salivation. |
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| The sheer mirth of this Japanese puppet master injected the audience with ecstasy. |
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| He limped towards Nicholas, who was gazing at him with tears of mirth in his eyes. |
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| They shared the joy and mirth of every other moment of life. |
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| His voice is quiet, melodic, and often tinged with an undercurrent of mirth. |
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| Its style, archetypical characters and comic situations are given their full measure and mirth by the Bell Shakespeare Company, albeit with a slightly modern twist. |
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| When she didn't move, he smirked and his green eyes shone with mirth. |
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| His hazel eyes shone with mirth as he looked at her and at that instant, the little girl had made up her mind that her hero was the bestest person in the universe. |
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| To her chagrin, Nook burst out in peals of unrestrained mirth. |
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| It took him only a few seconds to strangle his mirth once more, and he wiped tears from his eyes while he shook his head as penitently as the low ceiling allowed. |
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| How strange that people can find mirth in articles that contain so little as long as they have the impression that the author is a funny ha-ha joker. |
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| We are drawn to his women not by attractive packages but by the humanity of his subjects, by their discomfort or embarrassment, mirth or sadness, the surge of their blood. |
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| Our people, who discovered the cause of my mirth, bore me company in laughing, at which the old fellow was fool enough to be angry and out of countenance. |
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| Not that a Brown premiership would be a thing of great mirth and jollity, even though marriage and fatherhood have certainly mellowed the Chancellor. |
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| For the reasons behind my mirth, a little history lesson is in order. |
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| Framed by the white hijab she adopted at 17, Joseph's serious eyes and alabaster features impart an ethereal air at odds with the mirth that can bubble up at her own expense. |
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| The mirth is misleading, as are the soft features of the baby-faced Surkov. |
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| That's better than Germany, France and even Brazil, where mirth is nearly a religion. |
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| Dinger is both a wonderful creation and, in Joe Caffrey's masterful hands, an example of how mirth can be found in the grottiest corners. |
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| Meg gazed desperately across the room to where Monty was guffawing with mirth and stuffing into his mouth a cheeselet. |
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| Matter of mirth enough, though there were none, She could devise, and thousand ways invent To feed her foolish humour, and vain jolliment. |
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| And he began to laugh again, and that so heartily, that, though I did not see the joke as he did, I was again obliged to join him in his mirth. |
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| Then there was much mirth and banter over the swift sneakings for home of certain men carrying large portions of puarka. |
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| While it caused scenes of wild mirth in the house, we hope it helps bury the last of those snedging memories. |
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| Her clumsy attempt to cut the cake was the cause of much mirth. |
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| Incessant bellowings fill all the earth, Mingled with inextinguishable mirth. |
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| Long years ago, amid the sunny hills Where Arno dashing makes the maddest mirth, A master lived whose melody enthrills, And ever will, the children of the earth. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| Many selcouth sights in certes have I seen, But this mirth and this melody mengs my mood. |
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| Freely they may indulge their quieter sensibilities, and certes, if they cachinnate with mirth, they will shed unwilling tears. |
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| His mirth is bawdy jests with the wenches, and, behind the door, bawdy earnest. |
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| The youngest is besmeared up to the eyes with his, and that is the reason of their mirth. |
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| Jerry was full of mirth over the fact that they had met Elizabeth Walberts car at the side of the road with a blown-out tire. |
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| Once more the Traynor residence was filled with the sounds of mirth and revelry. |
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| I am the handmaid of the earth, I broider fair her glorious gown, And deck her on her days of mirth With many a garland of renown. |
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| Gives you an impression, perhaps by the brightness of his eyes, of puckish mirth playing within his mind. |
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| So the gospel and its Founder were bandied from tongue to tongue as a theme for unholy mirth. |
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| I had a sinking feeling in the cardiac region which does not go with mirth. |
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| Who has not been stirred to scorn and mirth at the very thought of a chocolate soldier! |
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| The clown who excites the multitudes to mirth is more a benefactor than the conqueror who drapes a thousand homes in mourning. |
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| She gave a light laugh that had in it so little mirth, was so little apposite to ridicule, that he did not feel it a fleer. |
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| But Mr girdler, who was not ordinarily given to mirth, abruptly left the room with a smile on his face before I could proceed. |
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| In the dance she was the nimblest, in mirth the most gleeful, and in beauty peerless. |
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| I was no longer the light-hearted, gleesome boy, full of mirth and play, as when I landed first at Baltimore. |
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| The latter was sitting in a chair at a desk, and when Harlan entered Haydon got up and grinned at him, shallowly, without mirth. |
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| His mirth had some superficial signs of shamefacedness, but it was hopeful underneath. |
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| She chuckled aloud, not that she relished her mirth, but the harlequinade of fate constrained a laugh for its antics. |
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| About the same time Douglas came upon Roxburgh, when the garrison were enjoying the careless mirth of Shrovetide. |
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| Whereas the soaker is an utter stranger to wit and mirth, and no friend to either. |
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| But there were those names of the missing, and there was our ill-disguised mirth. |
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| I had then neither time nor will to do as he did, and his ill-timed mirth vexed me. |
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| This, with a glance at Dominick heaving in the subsiding storm of his mirth. |
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| Nidia Commerell was standing in the doorway right beside him, drawing on a pair of suede gloves, her blue eyes dancing with mirth. |
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| There I lay amid the most vociferous mirth I ever listened to, under the confounded torrent of ironmongery that half-stunned me. |
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| Nor was it only in streets and public places that mirth and joviality prevailed. |
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| Now Thorfinn went with thirty freedmen to the Yule-feast, whereat there was the greatest mirth and joyance among men. |
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| Hugh Marsden's blunders and large-handed awkwardness were always provocative of mirth, and he took all in such good part. |
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| When Mr. Leacock's literal translation of Homer, on p. 193, met my eye, a howl of mirth broke from me. |
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| Laban says that he would have sent away Jacob and his wives and children, with mirth and with songs, with tabret and with harp. |
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| Dorothy opened her eyes and laughed, but with a tremulousness in her mirth. |
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| Angelique interrupted him by laughing gaily, and he joined her in her mirth for a moment. |
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| In many of the houses which we passed could be heard sounds of mirth and gaiety. |
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| And he gloomed and moped and was an object of private mirth to Judge Enderby. |
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| This quality of unstrained mirth accompanies Richard, and is a prime feature in his character. |
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| Next day, from early dawn, the streets of Osaka were full of movement and mirth. |
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| In the midst of the mirth, the portieres were lifted and Gwendolyn came in. |
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| As the kittens grew older, they had the run of the house, which they filled with elfin mirth of motion and reels of puckish revel. |
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| He had met Opal's eyes and she was shaking with mirth, but somehow it affected him rawly. |
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| It was he who provided the university with food for mirth, envy, satire, recrimination. |
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| Then his mouth twisted in a rictus of dreadful mirth, so wrung was he with pain, yet so overcome by what he had seen. |
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| Gradually the mirth of those youngsters became so roisterous as to disturb our talk. |
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| The friars at this tide were nought inclined to mirth, but uneathly kept their seats, silently eyeing each other, and casting in their minds what selcouth gambol was to follow this preparation. |
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| These seemed only to augment the mirth and spitefulness of his tormentors. |
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| In short, it seemed as though mirth and gaiety were frisking and gambolling all over the meadow. |
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| Chip made haste to stifle his mirth, in fear that she was going to cry. |
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| In vain the Woman Perfect struggled to subdue her mirth to penitence. |
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| I seek not gaiety nor mirth, not the bright voluptuousness of much sunshine and sparkling waters which please the young and gay. |
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| Go into that hall of revelry, where ungodly mirth staggers and blasphemes. |
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| A mirthless voice, with an intention of mirth in it, said, 'Look out! |
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| That epitaph was quite famous among the little family traditions that entwine every household with mingled mirth and sorrow, smiles and tears. |
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| Could it be the new footman indulging in this unseemly mirth? |
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| But, instead of pulling the trigger, he lowered the muzzle again, and indulged himself in a fit of his peculiar mirth. |
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| Grey laughed loudly, but there was no mirth in his hilarity. |
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| The loudest whingers of press abuse are often the whited sepulchres whose calamitous private lives give rise to mirth and gaiety when revealed. |
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| Striving to smother his mirth, Lanse bore the soap-dish away. |
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| This contrast, or intermingling of tragedy with mirth, happens daily, hourly, momently. |
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| As the moral gloom of the world overpowers all systematic gayety, even so was their home of wild mirth made desolate amid the sad forest. |
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| And laugh of glee, and song of mirth, then wreathe their merry twine. |
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| Desire smiled too, wanly and without the least approach to mirth. |
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| List and hearken, gentlemen, All ye that now be here, Of Little John, that was Knight's-man, Good mirth ye now shall hear. |
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| And the welkin rang with what seemed to be the mirth of a lunatic. |
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| Ted proceeds with a try at being flippant and Oliver cackles with mirth. |
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| Often the readings had to end abruptly because her mirth brought on violent fits of coughing. |
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| I am no longer young, and my heart, through weary years of mourning over the dead, is attuned to mirth. |
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| Again the desiccated titter of Cousin Edith's mirth sounded. |
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| It was full of victual, and all manner of mirth and disport. |
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| Or are you, reader, one who delights to drench his mirth in tears? |
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| I implored, catching her by the arm, and terrified beyond measure by the loudness of her mirth. |
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| His mirth was hoarse and ghastly, like a raven's croak, and the sick wolf joined him, howling lugubriously. |
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| There was something which might have touched the springs both of mirth and of melancholy in the ancient maidenliness with which Mrs. |
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| For tobe was rolling about the room in an ecstasy of uproarious mirth. |
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| Stan waited for the flight lieutenant to explain his sudden mirth. |
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| Sweet voices and rich melody filled the air, and so with mirth and music the masquerade went on. |
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| So we gat not back to our sad talk, but all ended with mirth. |
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| But again Gerd laughed, though with less mirth in her laughter. |
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| Pray dispense with this jesting, for I have no time, and really no inclination, to be the subject or promoter of mirth just now. |
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| The scene is too solemn for an ebullition of boisterous mirth. |
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| Among the desperate there is almost invariably a tendency to mirth. |
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| The concupiscence of princes was serialised for the mirth of the crowd. |
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| And therewith we hunted out our old dream books to read them again, and, forgetful of coming partings, laughed over them till the old orchard echoed to our mirth. |
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| The genial festival of Christmas, which throughout all Christendom lights up the fireside of home with mirth and jollity, followed hard upon the wedding just described. |
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| If sorrow was thirsty, there was drink if hungry, there was food if it sunk down upon and saddened the heart, here were the means supplied of mirth, or at least of amusement. |
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| But even watched pots will boil in the fulness of time, and finally Christmas day came, gray and dour and frost-bitten without, but full of revelry and rose-red mirth within. |
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| Le Quoi resumed his seat with a polite reciprocation in his mirth. |
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| There was a quiet mirth about the little supper, which harmonised exactly with this tone of feeling, and at length the two gentlemen took their leave. |
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| The letters from town, which a few days before would have made every nerve in Elinor's body thrill with transport, now arrived to be read with less emotion that mirth. |
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| The event, on Wednesday May 6 at the Racquet Club on Chapel Street, is billed as a night of burlesque, music, mirth and minxes featuring Miss Ruby Honeycut Corset. |
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| The flightiness of his mirth rendered him often guilty of offences against the decorum of a Puritan household, and on these occasions he did not invariably escape rebuke. |
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| Now, as a half-smile was sufficient to awaken the irascibility of the young man, the effect produced upon him by this vociferous mirth may be easily imagined. |
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