laughing

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We don't do a thing but eat and sleep or go ashore once a month for papers, and"--laughing--"just think of what a good chance you would have to get acquainted with your wife Manson was silent.

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  • It was rather a comic cavalcade that left the village, though the few folk that came out to stare at the ‘get-up’ of the travellers did not seem quite sure whether laughing was allowed. —  The Lord of the Rings
  • I remember I came down and demanded to know what all the laughing was about and they turned away from their cards and really laughed. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • Everybody seemed to be shouting in Chinese, laughing, hurrying. —  Jade Woman - Jonathan Gash - Lovejoy 12
  • Well, maybe his laughing was a little over the top … .. —  Lone Star Ball
  • Never quiet--laughing, singing, whistling all the time, heels over head in everything, pitching into his studies as irrepressibly as into his games, but with more success in the latter, though he was a fair student; better in his mathematics and other English studies than in the languages. —  Captain Mugford Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors
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laughing:   laugh ·  laughed ·  laughs
Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage® Dictionary. Copyright © 2003, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
 

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