How To Use Mirth In A Sentence
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This was gracious of him and also provoked an unexpected conspiratorial mirth between the interviewer and interviewee.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her impersonations of our teachers were a source of considerable mirth.
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This was gracious of him and also provoked an unexpected conspiratorial mirth between the interviewer and interviewee.
Times, Sunday Times
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Hats bowl away, coats fly open, skirts cling, umbrellas flype themselves: and their owners, grotesquely running, grabbing, snatching, struggling, are consumed with rueful and involuntary mirth.
Try Anything Twice
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No doubt that news will be received with considerable mirth in gyms throughout Britain.
The Sun
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His laughter was spiteful and mirthless, and he took his time, content to let his presence sink in.
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Once resurfacing from the water, hair in his eyes, he could see Jo laughing, not so discreetly slapping her thigh in mirth.
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There was no uncertainty, no wavering, no hesitation, nor was there any mirth, any pleasure, any satisfaction.
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A wonderful, joyous mouth that could laugh and grin and smile in a hundred expressions of precious, life-giving mirth.
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It was at this point I rolled off the sofa with helpless mirth.
Times, Sunday Times
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One look and I gave a mirthless laugh, mocking myself.
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But he also incorporated a 150-square-foot sunshade printed with what he refers to as a mirthful interpretation of the apocalypse by Roy Lichtenstein.
The Vatican Breaks Its Da Vinci Code
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They soon subsided into a bout of laughter while tears of mirth glistened in their eyes.
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He looked in at the door and snickered, then in at the window, then peeked down from between the rafters and cachinnated till his sides must have ached; then struck an attitude upon the chimney, and fairly squealed with mirth and ridicule.
In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs
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He watched, his eyes mirthless as she pulled her saber clear from the slight cover of the light coat she wore.
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To have at times convenient pastance, mirth and pleasures,
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2
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Variety said that while still eccentric and full of mirth'the irascible green ogre begins to show signs of encroaching middle age '.
Times, Sunday Times
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The werewolf bared its fangs in a mirthless grin and made a low growling sound that sounded chillingly like laughter.
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Merry and Pippin develop strongly, as they do in the book, but still hold their mirth and merriment.
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Or they make up their own dives on the spot, sometimes while in midair -- improvisation that frequently leads to the kind of painful bellyflop that causes spectators to groan with a combination of sympathy and mirth
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It is in these moments of mirth that perhaps the true genius of the Celtic Tenors is captured.
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It took him only a few seconds to strangle his mirth once more, and he wiped tears from his eyes while he shook his head as penitently as the low ceiling allowed.
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But the mirth is fleeting and the hysterical laughter, I suspect, is triggered more by nervous tension than by a wicked sense of humour.
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For when we are deeply mournful discordant above all others is the voice of mirth.
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They soon subsided into a bout of laughter while tears of mirth glistened in their eyes.
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Shorn of the ostentatious nostalgia that afflicts too many period films, The House of Mirth is a bracing, cleanly wrought spiral of a film, a chiller in the true sense of the word.
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Ther's dool i 'the kitchin, and mirth i' the ha ',
Ballads of Scottish Tradition and Romance Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Third Series
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Snug in this waterborne nest, he paddled away from the cruel mirth of the swimmers, intent upon solitude.
SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
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It is a sure sign of mirth when the beards of the guests shake with laughter.
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Note, The end of the sinner's mirth and jollity is heaviness.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Ed had had it engraved inside with Forever --- I emitted a mirthless laugh.
RESCUING ROSE
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But whether she told of the grumbler who could find nothing to complain of in heaven except that "his halo didn't fit," or said in her quick way, when the plainness of a lady's dress was commended, "Why, I didn't suppose that anybody could go _to heaven_ now-a-days without an overskirt," or wrote her sparkling impromptu rhymes for our children's games, her mirth was all in harmony with her earnest life.
The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss
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Their manic scramble was a source of considerable mirth to those of us cheering them on.
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Walking down the corridors of Pittodrie Stadium is like running a gauntlet of mirth and merriment.
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The apparelling was a lively process, to judge from the sounds of mirth that issued from the various cubicles; and so many different articles were borrowed, lent, and exchanged that it was a wonder their respective owners ever managed to claim them again.
The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life
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They tell the story (an amalgam as absorbing as calzium chloereydes and hydrophobe sponges could make it) how one happygogusty Ides-of-April morning (the anniversary, as it fell out, of his first assumption of his mirthday suit and rights in appurtenance to the confusioning of human races) ages and ages after the alleged misdemeanour when the tried friend of all creation, tigerwood roadstaff to his stay, was billowing across the wide expanse of our greatest park in his caoutchouc kepi and great belt and hideinsacks and his blaufunx fustian and ironsides jackboots and Bhagafat gaiters and his rubberised inverness, he met a cad with a pipe.
Finnegans Wake
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Such transitions2 often excite mirth, or other sudden and tumultuous passions; but not that sinking, that melting, that languor, which is the characteristical effect of the beautiful as it regards every sense.
The Beautiful in Sounds
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And then she could control herself no longer, and was forced to smile, -- one of those broad mirthful smiles that are parlously near a laugh.
Too Old for Dolls A Novel
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GOOOOODDDDD DAAAAMMMM ITS WARM TODAY FELLOW DEFENDERS OF THE REALM!!!!!! however i am now nursing a nice lager shandy (off duty of course, im not in CID) and sat in the shade. meanwhile up north today i had to stifle mirth (not very succesfully) as we placed a ‘regular service user’ into a cell. as i left him and came home i hear he was still kicking off about how stifling his cell is … … .. clearly the systems failed him and i feel absolutely dreadful for him … … …. no honestly i do … … … … on July 1, 2009 at 7: 42 pm | Reply Olivers Army
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His mind was boiling with mirth,fear and pride.
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To the midfielder, the perception of him as a mirthless martinet is a failure to understand the greatest manager this country has produced.
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A painful memory, injected with some still-rueful mirth recently, as I reread the Larry's memoir and beheld the dues he had paid and the jangled trip he had taken to find a suitably meaningful professional niche.
David Murray: Working, in Chicago: An Emotional Guide for New Graduates
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It was the look of them, partly: the skanky paper, the low-mirth smudginess of their production; but also the dismalness of the schoolyard world they portrayed: discipline versus cheekiness, small victories, practical jokes, jeering, every teacher undernourished, every kid drawn as though he had rickets.
Kalooki Nights
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The Liverpudlian auteur's 2008 doc Of Time And The City reminded us just how much we missed him, and how charming his company could be, so it's good to see him back with his first feature since 2000's House Of Mirth.
This week's new film events
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I. i.252 (353,1) [_base minow of thy mirth_] A _minnow_ is a little fish which cannot be intended here.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies
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“Laughter,” Pelagia greeted the white dolphin swimming before her, and indeed the old one seemed about to float away on a current of her own mirth.
The Grace of the Foolish « A Fly in Amber
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The amorous gaze of the disguised daimio suddenly affected her with such ill-disguised mirth that the Japanese felt deeply hurt and humiliated.
The Child of Pleasure
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I objected quickly, but his mirthless chuckle made me stop in my tracks.
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It is not only an essential adjunct to ceremonials, adding a mirthful dimension to martial pomp and vigour, but also possesses a vast potential as a medium of cultural entertainment.
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She laughs at the question, but it's not certain if this is nervous laughter or genuine mirth.
Times, Sunday Times
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LONDON – Eat My Handbag, Bitch! is the name of a vintage clothing shop in London's newly trendified East End. English cheekiness of this genre would normally convulse me with mirth, but I find I am strangely unamused.
My Tour of London: Classic Drag, Chien , C-s
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The muscle that controls eye-smiling is called the orbicularis oculi, and its activation has proved to be a reliable indicator of internal happiness or mirth.
Mind Wide Open
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His face full of mirth, Owen put an arm around her and touched her stomach softly.
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Such fatuous nonsense afforded us countless hours of mirth; who says religion has no value?
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Variety said that while still eccentric and full of mirth'the irascible green ogre begins to show signs of encroaching middle age '.
Times, Sunday Times
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He limped towards Nicholas, who was gazing at him with tears of mirth in his eyes.
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Liberal commentators in Washington could barely conceal their mirth.
Times, Sunday Times
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I gave a mirthless laugh at her joke and continued my search.
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_mirth_ it may be derived from _uaim-mir_, i.e. loud mirth, gaiety.
Notes and Queries, Number 214, December 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Whether it was from his entering so readily into their mirth, or from anything peculiar that struck them, the impression upon the whole of us was, that they took him to have been originally a black, in consequence of which they gave him the name of Rundi.
Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Volume 2
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Her body began to shake with mirth.
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He loved antiquarian research, and all such scientific problems as involve abstruse study and complex calculation, -- but equally he loved the simplest flower and the most ordinary village tale of sorrow or mirth recounted to him by any one of his unlessoned parishioners.
God's Good Man
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No Merry Andrew, to stir up the multitude with jests, perhaps hundreds of years old, but still effective, by their appeals to the very broadest sources of mirthful sympathy.
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The name "scherzo" in this connection is to be taken as signifying a play of fancy, rather than an especially playful mood in the sense of mirthfulness; in fact, it is not easy to find a rational explanation of the grounds upon which Chopin named his pieces, especially as between the ballad and the scherzo.
The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations
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‘No,’ he said again, a mirthless smile forming on his lips.
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That's one of the mirthful questions answered in this light-hearted, irreverent and yet strangely affecting account of Christ's entire life, not just the three years or so we get in the Bible.
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Here the poet called up into pictorial presence, and informed with life, grace, beauty, infinite friendly mirth and wondrous naturalness of expression, the people of whom his dear books told him the stories, — his Shakspeare, his Cervantes, his Moliere, his Le Sage.
Roundabout Papers
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Mirthless" is not the kind of adjective that makes its way onto full-page movie ads, but it's the most charitable way of describing the new "Arthur," a remake of the celebrated 1981 comedy about a wealthy wastrel's eviction from dipsomaniacal paradise by his family and Liza Minnelli.
'Arthur': He Drinks, Movie Falls Down
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They sat in mirth and good cheer till noon, when they brought them up the midday meal, all manner meats and sweetmeats of the very best; and they ate and drank costly sherbets and perfumed themselves thereafter with rose-water and scented woods.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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The mirthless tyranny of comedy has taken over travel documentaries.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, it insensibly seemed to give the lie to his imputation; for his spirits rose to a more elevated pitch of mirth and good-fellowship; he sung, or rather roared, the Early Horn, so as to alarm the whole neighbourhood, and began to slabber his companions with a most bear-like affection.
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
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Men in khaki did not complain about the scorching sun or the mirthful crowd.
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Laughter, joy and mirth should be considered some of our most primary objectives.
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Men in khaki did not complain about the scorching sun or the mirthful crowd.
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I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardise [I. 99] of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.
Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend
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The Kungsbacka Trio are embarking on a series, and this first volume includes the famous "Gypsy Rondo", dispatched with mirth, and some lovely movements such as the serene Allegro, ma dolce of the D major trio and the more severe Andante cantabile of the E flat minor trio; in the F sharp minor trio there's a version of a movement from his Symphony No 102.
Haydn: Piano Trios Vol 1, Nos 24, 25, 26, 31 – review
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‘I'm such a wimp,’ she muttered out angrily, a mirthless smile tainting her lips.
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Angelos mirrored the mirthless look, all signs of warmth abruptly gone from his countenance.
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Herr Klüber, for his part, did everything he supposed conducive to the mirthfulness of the company; he begged them to sit down in the shade of a spreading oak-tree, and taking out of a side pocket a small booklet entitled, ‘Knallerbsen; oder du sollst und wirst lachen!’
The Torrents of Spring
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Each word in the lexicon, though technically equal to any other, derived its potency from its gelastic index - a calculation consisting of letter count, syllabic complexity, and its mirthpoint, as experienced by the word's wielder.
High Jinks
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The sheer mirth of this Japanese puppet master injected the audience with ecstasy.
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Davis felt a burst of mirth within him, for he knew the symbol well but could not comprehend how he could see black in a pitch-black environment.
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a soldier and a diplomat, hence his genius, even in its extremes of mirth has balance and health, remoteness and neutrality -- it is never bitter, and never in the least "viewy".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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Laughter peals through Taipei's Great Tranquility Park as the play's hero, the deliciously impish King Monkey, contorts his face with mirthful delight at the havoc he has inspired.
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Then it is time for mirth and merriment, as he fulfils all his little wishes.
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It always returns as pangs of memories about mirth and joy veiled by a distant past.
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Mrs. Pierce to the King's Head and there spent a piece upon a supper for her and mighty merry and pretty discourse, she being as pretty as ever, most of our mirth being upon "my Cozen" (meaning my Lord Bruncker's ugly mistress, whom he calls cozen), and to my trouble she tells me that the fine Mrs. Middleton is noted for carrying about her body a continued sour base smell, that is very offensive, especially if she be a little hot.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1665 N.S.
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The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
Rule Upon Rule, Expression of the Lord,
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Liberal commentators in Washington could barely conceal their mirth.
Times, Sunday Times
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When the mirth of carnal worldlings ceases the joy of the saints is as lively as ever; when the merry-hearted do sigh because the vine languishes the upright-hearted do sing because the covenant of grace, the fountain of their comforts and the foundation of their hopes, never fails.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Then they ceased not abiding in solace and pleasance and good cheer and abounding prosperity, eating and drinking with mirth and merriment, till there came to them the
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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So she took her lute and made them such melody that had caused the hardest rocks to dance with glee; and they passed the night in mirth and merriment, converse and good cheer, till morn appeared with its sheen and shone, when the Caliph laid an hundred gold pieces under the prayer-carpet and all, after taking leave of Ala al-Din, went their way.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Wherever she came there was laughter among the ladies, of the high hysteric bacchante kind, not true mirth, but
The Heavenly Twins
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Amid the federal election's accusations and recriminations, snake bites and bear-baiting, a bit of mirth did manage to sneak in.
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The performance produced much mirth among the audience.
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a contagion of mirth
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Each and every one found themselves at the centre of the fun and mirth of the occasion at some time over the weekend.
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To her chagrin, Nook burst out in peals of unrestrained mirth.
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He spurned everything mean and ungenerous, -- was genial in disposition, indeed brimming with mirthfulness, and, in every situation, attracted to himself numerous friends.
Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick
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Liberal commentators in Washington could barely conceal their mirth.
Times, Sunday Times
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Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
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Theresa's jaw dropped, her face becoming stale and mirthless.
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That caused considerable mirth amongst pupils and sports masters alike.
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For the third time, Neville produced his mirthless laugh.
MOONDROP TO MURDER
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Twelfth day the fiddler lays his head in the lap of some one of the wenches, and the _mainstyr fiddler_ asks who such a maid, or such a maid, naming all the girls one after another, shall marry, to which he answers according to his own whim, or agreeable to the intimacies he has taken notice of during the time of merriment, and whatever he says is absolutely depended upon as an oracle; and if he couple two people who have an aversion to each other, tears and vexation succeed the mirth; this they call "cutting off the fiddler's head," for after this he is dead for a whole year.
A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide
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The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (nee Jones) is a classic partly because of the author's superb writing and intimate knowledge of the monied class (the phrase "keeping up with the Joneses" was reportedly first used to describe the wealthy family of her father).
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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Its style, archetypical characters and comic situations are given their full measure and mirth by the Bell Shakespeare Company, albeit with a slightly modern twist.
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We are drawn to his women not by attractive packages but by the humanity of his subjects, by their discomfort or embarrassment, mirth or sadness, the surge of their blood.
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Their mirthfulness and kindliness are most winning; their horses, food, clothes, and time are all bestowed on one so freely, and one lives amongst them with a most restful sense of absolute security.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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His mind was boiling with mirth,fear and pride.
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Liberal commentators in Washington could barely conceal their mirth.
Times, Sunday Times
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But its aim, despite what was recently claimed in one mirthless broadsheet, is not meanspirited mockery of struggling authors.
Times, Sunday Times
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unbent," as Harry said, and joined in the mirth; and Janet had enough to do to reason them into quietness when bed-time came.
Janet's Love and Service
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His gray-green eyes sparkled with laughter and mirth, as he slung an arm around Jess, his hand teasing her hair affectionately.
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There was some one thing that was too great for God to show us when He walked upon our earth; and I have sometimes fancied that it was His mirth.
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“The best clinicians understand that there is an intrinsic physiological intervention brought about by positive emotions such as mirthful laughter, optimism and hope,” the ‘Daily Mail’ quoted lead researcher Dr Lee Berk as saying.
30 Minutes Of Laughter A Day For A Healthy Heart | Impact Lab
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Hollyhock sat down to the midday meal at The Garden in exceedingly low spirits, but her father had now got through what she called his arithmetic, and was full of mirth.
Hollyhock A Spirit of Mischief
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It was at this point I rolled off the sofa with helpless mirth.
Times, Sunday Times
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That gash of color became almost clown-like as it crescented upward with its wayward mirth.
Never-Fail Blake
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Levin felt envious of this health and mirthfulness; he longed to take part in the expression of this joy of life.
Anna Karenina
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Ed had had it engraved inside with Forever --- I emitted a mirthless laugh.
RESCUING ROSE
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Knowing the ford well, and that it is shallow, with a firm bottom, they ride boldly on; their followers straggled out behind, these innocent of the foul conspiracy being hatched so near; still keeping up their rollicky mirth, and flinging about _jeux d'esprit_ as the spray drops are tossed from the fetlocks of their wading horses.
Gaspar the Gaucho A Story of the Gran Chaco
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That got a few mirthless chuckles from the rest of the men.
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gloom had usurped mirth at the party after the news of the terrorist act broke
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I aspire to be recognised for quality writing, for consistent humor and mirth.
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a mirthful experience
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Such19 transitions often excite mirth, or other sudden or tumultuous passions; but not that sinking, that melting, that languor, which is the characteristical effect of the beautiful as it regards every sense.
On the Sublime and Beautiful
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He was not a big man, but his voice boomed, and his hands were meaty, and in repose there was something august about his heavy midwestern features: pale blue eyes that, in the absence of hopefulness, might have looked severe; prominent, straight nose and heavy jowls that, in the absence of mirth, might have seemed imperious and disapproving.
Excerpt: Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon
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What barrister, young or old, cannot recall mirthful eyes that, with quick shyness, have turned away from his momentary notice, as in answer to the rustling of silk, or stirred by sympathetic consciousness of women's noiseless presence, he has raised his face from a volume of reports, and seen two or three timorous girls peering through the golden haze of a
A Book About Lawyers
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Epitaphs, &c.; and having been a long resident in the East, was thought to be a very useful guide on such an excursion, and proved himself a very ~259~~ pleasant sort of companion: he had a dawning pleasantry in his countenance, eradiated by an eye of vivacity, which seemed to indicate there was nothing which gave him so much gratification as a mirth-moving jest.
Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life
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The light of it caught like contagion, and touched the merest glancer at him with the spark of its warm, ironic mirth.
The Coast of Chance
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Others think that this proverb admonisheth the guests to forget everything that is spoken or done in company; and agreeably to this, the ancients used to consecrate forgetfulness with a ferula to Bacchus, thereby intimating that we should either not remember any irregularity committed in mirth and company, or apply a gentle and childish correction to the faults.
Symposiacs
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News of the Moroccan jaunt came amidst much mirth in the media this week over a howler in the book.
Times, Sunday Times
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Ed had had it engraved inside with Forever --- I emitted a mirthless laugh.
RESCUING ROSE
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Gloom had usurped mirth at the party after the news of the terrorist act broke.
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The way his features were set, and especially the mirthless smirk on his face, gave him an almost malignant appearance.
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It was a mirthless smile, revealing teeth yellowed by smoke and neglect.
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This is a book you'd like to have as an elder relative: wise, mirthful, and generous of spirit; knowing enough to be able to remind you to laugh out loud just at the joy of life.
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Her scrunched up face made her look as if she was wearing a perpetual mirthless grin.
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She doesn't need to articulate as much, her hooting, strangely mirthless laugh says it for her.
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While his flunkies howled with laughter and wiped away their tears of mirth, Luke Moore saw Sally, who was pushing Cyd forward.
MAN AND WIFE
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The Hawaiians are a handsome people, scornful and sarcastic-looking even with their mirthfulness; and those who know them say that they are always quizzing and mimicking the haoles, and that they give everyone a nickname, founded on some personal peculiarity.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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Such [28] transitions often excite mirth, or other sudden or tumultuous passions; but not that sinking, that melting, that languor, which is the characteristical effect of the beautiful as it regards every sense.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12)
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It is true that on such occasions he was not conspicuous for any special mirthfulness; but his good-humour had always been somewhat subdued in character.
The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories
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Amid the federal election's accusations and recriminations, snake bites and bear-baiting, a bit of mirth did manage to sneak in.
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What cookery, masking, mirth to exhilarate his person?
Anatomy of Melancholy
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They shared the joy and mirth of every other moment of life.
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“O my lord,” replied he, “I seek only to introduce thee to these fellows of infinite mirth, the sons of men of worth, amongst whom there is neither procacity nor dicacity nor loquacity; for never, since I grew to years of discretion, could I endure to consort with one who asketh questions concerning what concerneth him not, nor have I ever frequented any save those who are, like myself, men of few words.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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In 1762, he described Christmas as "The day of greatest mirth and jollity."
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Whilst this provides a source of mirth for others, I find it downright irritating.
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The people of Quebec are chiefly engaged in minding their own business, an attitude which arouses the resentment and occasionally the mirth of the rest of the continent.
One of Canada's Assets, the Habitant
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His son seems weaker in his understanding, and more gay in his temper; but his gaiety is that of a foolish, overgrown school-boy, whose mirth consists in noise and disturbance.
Evelina: or, The History of a Young Lady's Entrance Into the World
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By reading the afore-mentioned three columns horizontally and _onwards_, instead of vertically and _downwards_ "in the old trite vulgar way," it was contended that much mirth might observingly be distilled from the most unhopeful material, as "_blind Chance_" frequently brought about the oddest conjunctions, and not seldom compelled _sub juga aenea_ persons and things the most dissimilar and discordant.
De Libris: Prose and Verse
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Being a mirthful mundivagant of sorts, I decided it was high time to don my gallant gumboots, garish gunnysack, and goose-down garb to take a gander at some far-flung places in need of my presence.
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But it was too late; the consulting detective had blinked away; his mirthfulness, manifesting itself at the most inopportune times,
An East Wind Coming
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Relieved, he stole a glance back that that officer, mirthless and cold.
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Movelessly, movelessly rooted also in this great heart, is a superfine sense of humor, craving hilarity and harmless mirth, and joy-inspiring wit and anecdote, as the only effectual relief to an over-anxious spirit and an over-tasked brain, and how reluctantly does
Eulogy of Abraham Lincoln
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And I laughed and guffawed at the irony of it, and even Verge did let forth a merry mirth-filled giggle.
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The titter of laughter that went up at the end of many choruses was composed of a mixture of mirth and self-recognition.
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For myself, though but a lowlander, having picked up a few words of the language, I presumed to mingle in their mirth, and joined in the choruses with as much glee as any of the company.
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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That caused considerable mirth amongst pupils and sports masters alike.
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How much more mirth will you receive from her, when she has taken a good bowsing cup to be jolly!
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple
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Still, enough of this mirth and merriment, just because it's Friday doesn't mean we should go to pieces.
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‘If ye be a robber, I have nae money; if ye be a leal man, wanting company, I have nae heart to mirth or speaking; and if ye want to ken the road, I scarce ken it mysell.’
Redgauntlet
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I mentally flinched and let out a mirthless laugh.
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Showing or characterized by exuberance or mirthful excitement; merry; cheerful; jolly.
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But the mirth is fleeting and the hysterical laughter, I suspect, is triggered more by nervous tension than by a wicked sense of humour.
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As the money flows like water and the increasingly erratic Mirtha, a coke addict, makes things tough at home, the FBI begins to close in on poor George.
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He smiled, or rather grinned, his fangs making the latter term fitter for the mirthless grimace he made.
The Frozen Pirate
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His lips parted in a mirthless smile, and showed his teeth.
NIGHT SISTERS
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It was, like most Mirthian buildings built of white alabaster stone.
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But after ‘a fierce shout of mirth’, Heidegger checked himself, and ‘his expression reverted to its habitual ferocity’.
Archive 2009-06-01
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Blaise smiled her secretive smile, the corners of her mouth twitching in hidden mirth, and she switched her grip on the hilt of her sword.
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Since the early twenty-first century, lol has been a must-have abbreviation.1 Devised by internet users, it conveys mirth—“laughing out loud”—that is invisible and inaudible in purely onscreen interaction.
The English Is Coming!
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We saw Pericles, which is filled with both mirth and tragedy.
Qdiosa Diary Entry
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It can't be any worse than any of the tales of mirth and woe I've got lined up.
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So that if your noble onnur will but think of that, why thinks may behappen to begin to take a new turn, and there may be mirth and merry days again at Wenbourne Hill.
Anna St. Ives
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There's naturally rapturous applause intertwined with mirth and salivation.
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He started laughing, throwing back his head in cheer as he slapped his knee in mirth.
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-- Amadis, I mean? "he asked, his blue eyes sparkling with a kind of mirthful ardour.
Innocent : her fancy and his fact
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Still, enough of this mirth and merriment, just because it's Friday doesn't mean we should go to pieces.
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The young curate replied that ‘a strong faith in the Incarnation and the Real Presence of Jesus Christ sanctifies all human things [,] not excluding human mirth and beauty’.
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The next night, in the cabin up-river, after Miriam had left them alone to what she termed their complacent silence, Garry Devereau and Steve sat a long while before the former raised a face alight with his rare mirth.
Then I'll Come Back to You
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The roars, belike, would have gradually subsided in dreadful rumblings of more than utterable or conquerable mirth.
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Before you get carried away with mirth, this is actually a serious situation: the animals are wreaking havoc on Neolithic burial mounds around the famous site.
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Caius," said Captain Hunken, interrupting her mirth as with a stroke tolled on a bell, "would ye mind pinching me?
Hocken and Hunken
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They are pictured as happy students borne aloft on gusts of mirth from their adoring audiences.
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It is a strong combination of mirth and sorrow, made real by the lives of believable characters.
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Young people there exude gaiety and mirth, for who could be cynical about love in Italy while thinking of Shakespeare's play?
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I must say that it was time well spent, my mirth is gigantic!
Not Quite Conan - Web Comics Edition!
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Animated by its cheering influence, even old decrepitude no longer feels his habitual pains -- the fire of youth is in his eye, as he details to the company the exploits which distinguished him in the days of '_auld langsyne_;' while the young, with hearts inflamed with '_love and glory_,' long to mingle in the more lively scenes of mirth, to display their prowess and agility.
Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries
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It moves pity more than mirth, to see a man, whom Nature has made no fool, so very industrious to appear like an ass.
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Hardly had he left the door than the woman went for her old lover, who returned with her and they passed the night together in mirth and merriment, while the parrot observed all.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Ordinarily, this is the kind of footballers cliche which raises much mirth among fans, but on this occasion he may have had a point.
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LESSON XXXII. re'gion, _place; space_. furze, _a thorny shrub with yellow flowers_. list'eth, _wishes; pleases_. mirth, _joy; fun_. boon, _gay; merry_. shaft, _an arrow; the stem of an arrow_. up borne ', _held or borne up_. crest'ing, _touching the tops of_.
New National Fourth Reader
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Her husband, joining us when she was in full tide of eloquence, smiled at me with a kind of saturnine mirth.
The Parisians — Complete
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I simply cannot remember driving any car that provoked so much mirth from other road users.
Times, Sunday Times
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Father Wilfred Knox, a nice fellow but with a horrible mirthless titter.
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I simply cannot remember driving any car that provoked so much mirth from other road users.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thereat mirth grew in them the more and they rehearsed to him his curious rite of wedlock for the disrobing and deflowering of spouses, as the priests use in Madagascar island, she to be in guise of white and saffron, her groom in white and grain, with burning of nard and tapers, on a bridebed while clerks sung kyries and the anthem _Ut novetur sexus omnis corporis mysterium_ till she was there unmaided.
Ulysses
