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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

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

What fates for ballast? by what voices grim      And laughters urged, your astral course I mark,-- Warped to what ports remote your hulks shall swim      Or anchor silent in what stagnant dark?

From The Masque of the Elements by Scheffauer, Herman George

Peter's cousin Lucy was something like a small, gay spring flower, with wide, solemn grey eyes that brimmed with sudden laughters, and a funny, infectious gurgle of a laugh.

From The Lee Shore by Macaulay, Rose, Dame

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