Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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From Chloe's lips the winged laughter flies...
...peal of loud laughter came following after...
...Laughter streaming through life's loud amen...
...read the college papers once in two weeks, - "collegiate journalism" has improved a great deal in the last two or three years. A few papers are silly, a good many are heavy, pretentious, or stupid, but there are only one or two left absurd enough to find subjects for laughter in, and the advancing march of common-sense will soon leave these behind. However, it is only about twice a year that one meets with anything in a college paper that would be thought worth reading if it appeared in an outside journal...
...upside down over his head, and smoked perique and green seal under it till he was nearly black in the face. They made him crawl under the table and bark like a dog (which he did very naturally, with a puppy-like whine that nearly killed the Sophomores with laughter). When they recovered, and allowed him to come out, he merely gazed at them with his beautiful china-blue eyes full of that look of meek reproach for which his brother was famous. To his intense astonishment, they did n't slink out of the room abashed and ashamed. They...