laughters

Example Sentences

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A broken, lurching music came from them, a nasal melody that moaned among the laughters.

From Erik Dorn by Hecht, Ben

When she gaed up the Cannogate, She laugh’d loud laughters three; But whan she cam down the Cannogate The tear blinded her ee.

From Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series by Sidgwick, Frank

Oh, eyes sublime— With tears and laughters for all time!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various

During his absence the laughters redoubled;—but in the midst of it Maynard re-entered, and desired they would allow him to read the letter to the end.

From Adeline Mowbray or, The Mother and Daughter by Opie, Amelia Alderson

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