"Laugh away" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I tried to laugh away her doubts, though whenever I did so I seemed to hear Bastin's slow voice remarking casually that she might die, as he might have commented on the quality of the claret. At last, however, I grew terrified and asked her bluntly ...
— When the World Shook - Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot • H. Rider Haggard
... "Laugh away," said the doctor, "but I mean to have that skin set up and sent to the British Museum, presented by Doctor Bolter," ...
— Middy and Ensign • G. Manville Fenn
... to laugh away the impression of the fiery speaker, Grundtvig, nevertheless, retained at least two lasting memories from the lectures—the power of the spoken word, a power that even against his will could arouse him from his cynical indifference, and the reverence with which Steffens spoke of Christ ...
— Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark • Jens Christian Aaberg
... much as ever I can, seeing I have so many people to care for," answered Sara, trying to laugh away the tears that—from sympathy, ...
— Olive - A Novel • Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)
... remarkable story with which Lord Lyttelton startled his guests on the morning of 24th November 1779. In vain they tried to cheer him, and to laugh away his fears. They could make no impression on the despondency that had settled on him; they could not shake the conviction that he was a doomed man. "You will see," was all the answer he would vouchsafe, "I shall die at midnight ...
— Love Romances of the Aristocracy • Thornton Hall
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