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• Nay, it is a well-known fact, which I can testify from my own experience, that on a clear still summer evening, you may hear, from the Battery of New York, the obstreperous peals of broad-mouthed laughter of the Dutch negroes at Communipaw, who, like most other negroes, are famous for their risible powers. —  Washington Irving
• I believe there was not a person that heard him, the sufferer himself excepted, who did not feel every risible nerve affected. —  Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry
• There was something almost risible in the thought of the two of them pedalling away down the lane to interview a murder suspect. —  The Lighthouse
• It is true, they laugh much, have great gesticulation, and are extravagantly fond of dancing: but the laugh is the effect of habit, and not of a risible sensation; the gesture is not the agitation of the mind operating upon the body, but constitutional volatility; and their love of dancing is merely the effect of a happy climate, (which, though mild, does not enervate,) and that love of action which usually accompanies mental vacancy, when it is not counteracted by heat, or other physical causes. —  A Residence in France During the Years 1792 1793 1794 and 1795
• You find that risible, yes? —  Sharpe's Prey

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