laughters

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Dining with Mark Heath in the Hotel Marseillaise that night, Bertram fell into a spell of musing, a visible melancholy uncommon in him; for his ill-humors, like his laughters, burned short and violent.

From The Readjustment by Irwin, Will

And foremost among the laughters was doubtless the rattle-pated Boswell.

From Oliver Goldsmith A Biography by Irving, Washington

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

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)

And how many frequent persons who laugh at that simplicity which the addresser admires in himself as wit, and yet both recreate themselves with double laughters!

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Disraeli, Isaac