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Sometimes she seems all of thirty to me; at other times, when her spirits and risibilities are aroused, she scarcely seems thirteen.
CHAPTER XX 2010
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All three should be in your vest and you should know how to use them because you never know which call will tickle a gobblers risibilities.
what is the better turkey call a mouth, box, or slate? and what name brand? 2010
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All three should be in your vest and you should know how to use them because you never know which call will tickle a gobblers risibilities.
what is the better turkey call a mouth, box, or slate? and what name brand? 2010
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Brian Greene talking about Quantum Weirdness might tickle your risibilities, too.
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The contrast prompts ideas so irresistibly ludicrous, that to keep one's risibilities under austere control while instituting it argues a self-command almost miraculous.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Various
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But a glance at the school from Mr. Bright's quick eye checked the risibilities of his pupils, and, this emotion dying out, there came instantly in its place a disgust and almost a horror of the loathsome person who had dared to disgrace the school room with such a figure as "Dodd" presented.
The Evolution of Dodd William Hawley Smith
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Constance, who with her keen sense of the ridiculous, had been fancying the effect this report would have upon the detective in ambush, and struggling hard with her own risibilities, mastered herself finally, and preserving her gravity of expression, replied with a wicked undercurrent of meaning:
The Diamond Coterie Lawrence L. Lynch
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The "office" of Dr.C. excites the risibilities of the author.
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
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As a boy my risibilities were easily excited, and I'm glad that, even yet, I have not entirely overcome that weakness.
Reveries of a Schoolmaster Francis B. Pearson
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Colonel, I said, as intelligibly as my horse's rapid steps, and my own excited risibilities would allow:
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