laughters
Example Sentences
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When she cam to the Netherbow port, She laughed loud laughters three; But when she cam to the gallows foot,75 The tears blinded her ee.
From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various
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 William Chambers
The human cadence and the subtle chime Of little laughters, home and child and wife, He knew not.
From Chimneysmoke by Christopher Morley
In the fourth stanza for "sudden laughters" of the jay was substituted the felicitous "sudden scritches," and the sixth and seventh stanzas were suppressed.
From The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by John Churton Collins
