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  • adjective Having eyes that reflect happiness (i.e., having eyes that "laugh").

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Examples

  • But so have I seen little Miriam and Martha, laughing-eyed elves, heedlessly gambol around their old sire; sporting with the circle of singed locks which grew on the marge of that burnt-out crater of his brain.

    Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

  • "Arton!" the brown-haired, laughing-eyed wench called from her second-floor window.

    Oathbreaker Lackey, Mercedes 1989

  • Nemesis in the shape of this laughing-eyed, gross-bodied man, had come upon him in his old age, and there was nothing for it but to take what was coming with as good a grace as he could muster.

    The Lost Valley James Morgan Walsh 1924

  • Sometimes she studied also a new photograph on his mantel -- of a pretty laughing-eyed young woman playing with a sailor-suited cherub.

    The House of Toys Henry Russell Miller 1917

  • Beside her stands her sixteen-year-old daughter, who is as plump, as jolly, as laughing-eyed as her mother.

    The Life and Work of Susan B Anthony 01 Harper, Ida H 1899

  • The laughing-eyed young groom disentangled the puppy from between Yeovil's legs, and then he was ushered into the grey silence of the entrance hall, leaving sunlight and noise and the stir of life behind him.

    When William Came 1870-1916 Saki 1893

  • Beside her stands her sixteen-year-old daughter, who is as plump, as jolly, as laughing-eyed as her mother.

    The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years Ida Husted Harper 1891

  • But so have I seen little Miriam and Martha, laughing-eyed elves, heedlessly gambol around their old sire; sporting with the circle of singed locks which grew on the marge of that burnt-out crater of his brain.

    Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855

  • But so have I seen little Miriam and Martha, laughing-eyed elves, heedlessly gambol around their old sire; sporting with the circle of singed locks which grew on the marge of that burnt-out crater of his brain.

    Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855

  • But so have I seen little Miriam and Martha, laughing-eyed elves, heedlessly gambol around their old sire; sporting with the circle of singed locks which grew on the marge of that burnt-out crater of his brain.

    Moby-Dick, or, The Whale 1851

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