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Out with the May-time blossoms, where the mocking-bird is king, And the songs of the thrush in chorus with all of the laughters ring!

From Oklahoma Sunshine by Miller, Freeman E. (Freeman Edwin)

Where hills made gibbous shadows in the moon, They heard the eldritch laughters of the wind, Seeming the mirth of death; and 'neath their gaze Gaunt valleys deepened like an old despair.

From The Star-Treader and other poems by Smith, Clark Ashton

There were loud laughters and low mutterings, in the tone of ridicule; and shouts of triumph and exultation; and, in brief, all the thousand mingled tones of a gay and joyous revel.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative by Various

Thirstier still the roaring flames are glowing, Fainter in his ear the laughters growing; Brief endures the fierce and fiery trial— Angel-welcomes drown the earth-denial.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 419 Volume 17, New Series, January 10, 1852 by Chambers, William

See, where she comes, with limbs of day,   The dawn! with wild-rose hands and feet,   Within whose veins the sunbeams beat, And laughters meet of wind and ray.

From Poems by Cawein, Madison Julius