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"Laughter" Quotes from Famous Books

... spirits—they will make themselves masters of the names and anecdotes best known to those whom they make their sport; and any one who shall listen to them, shall, in the words of the Divine Homer, only expose himself to a flood of inextinguishable laughter. I have often known him select one of the rawest and most ignorant persons in presence, and to him for the amusement of the rest, he has pretended to cause the absent to appear, the distant to draw near, and the dead themselves to burst the cerements of the grave. Take care, ...

— Waverley Volume XII • Sir Walter Scott

... pale and resolute author weakly began. "I didn't know I had so many friends in the world. Two minutes ago I was so scared my teeth chattered. Now I am entirely at my ease—you notice that." The little ripple of laughter which followed this remark really gave him time to think—gave him courage. "I feel that I am at last face to face with an audience that knows my work—that is ready to support a serious attempt at playwriting. I claim that a play may do ...

— The Light of the Star - A Novel • Hamlin Garland

... laughter rang out gayly. "I ce'tainly didn't expect to meet you here, lieutenant. May I ask if ...

— Bucky O'Connor • William MacLeod Raine

... might escape the crocodiles, but who could escape women?.... and he struck out valiantly for shore.... when he was brought to a sudden stop by finding the stem of the barge close on him, a noose thrown over him by some friendly barbarian, and himself hauled on board, amid the laughter, praise, astonishment, and grumbling of the good-natured crew, who had expected him, as a matter of course, to avail himself at once of their help, and could not conceive ...

— Hypatia - or, New Foes with an Old Face • Charles Kingsley

... them!" exclaimed Aunt Kate, with laughter. "All the wise sayings of the ancient world must be crammed under those pretty caps you wear, along ...

— Ruth Fielding Down East - Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point • Alice B. Emerson

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