cachinnation

• The great elms around Nightingale House cracked and groaned under the onslaught, while the wind screamed among them like the cachinnation of devils. —  Shroud for a Nightingale
• "Send him here child;" and the almost unearthly cachinnation was continued--"send him here, child--I can't go to seek him--and it is done--only bring him here So soon as this compact had been completed, Vanslyperken and his mother had a consultation; and it was agreed, that it would be advisable not to attempt the deed until the day before the cutter sailed, as it would remove all suspicion, and be supposed that the boy had deserted. —  Snarley-yow or The Dog Fiend
• Neither do I discover the source of thy cachinnation, seeing that the song is amatory and not comic. —  Jacob Faithful
• Right jovial was the rattle of tongues and the cachinnation which went forward whenever we were assembled together either at breakfast or dinner or supper; our father and mother setting us the example, so that we began the day with a hearty laugh, and finished it with a heartier. —  Marmaduke Merry A Tale of Naval Adventures in Bygone Days
• Some men wear an everlasting barren simper; in the smile of others lies a cold glitter as of ice: the fewest are able to laugh, what can be called laughing, but only sniff and titter and snigger from the throat outwards; or at best, produce some whiffling husky cachinnation, as if they were laughing through wool: of none such comes good. —  Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History

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