Citations:laughing


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * There, therefore, they lay for some time, and were made the objects of any man's sport, or malice, or revenge, the great one of the fair laughing still at all that befell them.


 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I was scarcely hid when a young girl came running towards the spot where I was concealed, laughing, as if she ran from someone in sport.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * To hear Scrooge expending all the earnestness of his nature on such subjects, in a most extraordinary voice between laughing and crying; and to see his heightened and excited face; would have been a surprise to his business friends in the city, indeed.
 * But now a knocking at the door was heard, and such a rush immediately ensued that she with laughing face and plundered dress was borne towards it the centre of a flushed and boisterous group, just in time to greet the father, who came home attended by a man laden with Christmas toys and presents.
 * For, the people who were shovelling away on the housetops were jovial and full of glee; calling out to one another from the parapets, and now and then exchanging a facetious snowball — better-natured missile far than many a wordy jest — laughing heartily if it went right and not less heartily if it went wrong.