tittering

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  • “But sometimes,” she said, tittering, “good manners can seem tiresome, can they not Exceedingly,” he agreed. —  SLIGHTLY WICKED - THE BEDWYN SERIES BOOK 2 - MARY BALOGH
  • One the few occasions when Cora had practiced tittering, she had ended up with her head beneath a cushion, smothering the bellows of unholy mirth it had given rise to. —  Mary Balogh - The Famous Heroine
  • That hideous tittering was Tolkemec's only reply, as he bounded into the room with a long leap that carried him over the secret trap before the door—by chance, or by some faint recollection of the ways of Xuchotl. —  Conan -- The Stories from Weird Tales (1932-1936)
  • And while they were busy tittering, Mrs. Woodchuck's son Billy helped himself to a piece of carrot from Aunt Polly's store of roots and herbs I must have a look at the Muley Cow this very morning," Aunt Polly told her caller. —  The Tale of the The Muley Cow Slumber-Town Tales
  • The President (having reproved a little female ensign for tittering, on a matter of Life or Death) called upon me to plead, "Coward or no Coward, Guilty or not Guilty?" —  The Trial of William Tinkling Written by Himself at the Age of 8 Years
 

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