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  • Could you respect an Angel with a horse-laugh and a swagger like a buccaneer?

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

  • Could you respect an Angel with a horse-laugh and a swagger like a buccaneer?

    LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

  • “The fitter you to guard the gates of a city,” said the young soldier, with a horse-laugh, which had something insulting in it.

    Count Robert of Paris 2008

  • Provoked by the saucy cunning of these three imps, he abused them with the sort of pleasantry which young men think they have the right to address to little boys, and they broke the silence with a horse-laugh.

    Le Colonel Chabert 2007

  • Provoked by the saucy cunning of these three imps, he abused them with the sort of pleasantry which young men think they have the right to address to little boys, and they broke the silence with a horse-laugh.

    Le Colonel Chabert 2007

  • Captain Rawdon Crawley burst into a horse-laugh by way of reply; and being pressed by the ladies to explain, did so when the explosion of hilarity was over.

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • Captain, with a horse-laugh, “it SMELLS OF THE SHOP!”

    Mens Wives 2006

  • Foker the elder burst into a horse-laugh at some of these speeches, and the heir of the house winked his eye very knowingly at his friend.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • A month after her flight, she had bethought her of Amelia, and Rawdon, with a horse-laugh, had expressed a perfect willingness to see young

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • Sir Pitt burst into a horse-laugh, and continued his conversation with Mr. Horrocks.

    Vanity Fair 2006

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