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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 Collins, John Churton
As if some younger singing notes cried out, As do mischievous boys— Startling their playmates with a pained voice, Or sudden thrilling shout, Followed by laughters, full of little joys.
From The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems by Victor, Frances Fuller
Oh, eyes sublime— With tears and laughters for all time!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various
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
There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world: O eyes sublime With tears and laughters for all time!
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
