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Sentences that drifted in the night, laughters, sighs—these were part of a mask.

From Gargoyles by Hecht, Ben

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

From Oliver Goldsmith A Biography by Irving, Washington

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

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

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