mirth

• And Nature herself has had pity on these stones for the mirth, the heroism, the misery they have encompassed: she has propped up the tottering ramparts with forests of tall trees in the courts, balustraded the dizzy heights with a sturdy, bushy growth of ivy, and firmly bound together all the crumbling decay with a centuries-old cording of vine-stems A mile from Carisbrooke village lies Newport, the modern capital of the island--modern in its relation to Carisbrooke, but possessing some traces that it was formerly of Roman occupation also. —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
• I gathered that Lawson, who was not in the secret, and who was a nightmare sort of sleeper anyway, had knocked over Jim's table, with its array of pots and pans and then, unfortunately for Jones had kicked that innocent person in the stomach As I lay there in my bag, the very happiest fellow in the wide world, the sound of my mirth was as the buzz of the wings of a fly to the mighty storm. —  The Last of the Plainsmen
• In the smile were those qualities that he had noticed during his other conversations with her when he had accused her of meeting Taggart secretly--mirth, tempered with doubt. —  The Boss of the Lazy Y
• A man that seldom laughs violently, but his mirth is a cheerful look: of a composed and settled countenance, not set, nor much alterable with sadness or joy. —  Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
• La Tour permitted his soldiers to celebrate the marriage of their comrade, and their mirth was the more exuberant, from the privations they had of late endured. —  The Rivals of Acadia An Old Story of the New World

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