Laughs

Examples

• Jo laughs again. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Jo laughs with pleasure. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She laughs at them when they question her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She laughs and sobs, and then is quiet, and quite happy. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He laughs and beams, and looks as innocent as you like, and says, 'But I don't know the value of these things. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mrs. Chadband merely laughs and contemptuously tells him he can offer twenty pence. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She always laughs at him; and he is not likely to think of her in any other than a brotherly way. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• She laughs and talks, and seems to like it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• This pleasantry so tickles Mr. Smallweed that he laughs, long and low, before the fire. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• And here, catching my guardian's eye, he broke into one of his tremendous laughs, which seemed to shake even the motionless little market-town. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He laughs at the notion of the Circassian bridegroom. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The hardest of laughs, though brief and low, and by no means insulting, was the response of the rector. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Miss Shepherd makes a face as she goes by, and laughs to her companion. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The many laughs we have had together would infallibly come across me, and Frederick and his knapsack would be obliged to run away. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• She laughs, she chats; good-humoured, buxom, and blooming, she looks, at all points, the bourgeoise belle. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• There now, said Miss Steele, affectedly simpering, everybody laughs at me so about the Doctor, and I cannot think why. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Yes, sir: there is a woman who sews here, called Grace Poole,--she laughs in that way. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Do the best you can when the time comes, and if the audience laughs, don't blame me. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• If he was always laughing, I should think he forgot promises soon, but Mr. Moore never laughs. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I wish you would, answered Amy, for I hate him; but, as to Julia, it's nonsense her sticking up for Mildmay, he only laughs at the idea. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• They say--I have heard them say it with sneering laughs many a time--the matrimonial market is overstocked. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• St. Clare always laughs when I make the least allusion to my ill health, said Marie, with the voice of a suffering martyr. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• So I think; but father laughs at all my fears. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Mr. George laughs and drinks. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• In straits like these, when a man laughs, it is encouraging when he winks, it is positively reassuring. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Don't he look fierce at any strange cove that laughs or sings when he's in company! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.

Typed by Agatha