Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...subjects for the Second Junior Themes, Division A, are: "Mr. Thackeray gravely compromised his character, when he invited the people of the United States to laugh at his caricatures of the Hanoverian Kings of England"; and "Professor Hughes, it is said, does not intend to secure patent rights on the microphone, as he regards his researches and their results as belonging to the domain of discovery rather than invention...
...Freshman," said Humbug, "you'd better let him alone. He has outlived his usefulness. Besides, everybody would laugh at you if you should try to help...
...company for nothing, and take us dyspeptic students away from our books with his prattle. And bless the old pedler who will sell me his oranges and throw in an hour's talk about his life, giving me something to think of outside my own, and something to laugh at besides college jokes. Bless the dog-man who will tell me about the latest addition to "Missy's" family. Bless the delicate young creature who will kiss me if I buy a basket (I would n't buy one). Let more come to give me a sympathy with mankind...
They called their daughters, and the laughing girls took off their skates; and presently the party went out through the big doors which were being opened to let in the cold air. The stout man walked between the girls, making them both laugh, and laughing himself, a great, honest laugh; the elder man picked his way carefully along over the ice behind them...
...there he sat through it. It was like seeing a child at a pantomime, to watch him. He would laugh at the comic songs, and, ye Gods! he cried at the sentimental ones...