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  • Uproarious laughter and wild screams could be heard from the wild guys rocking out to country music, doing God knows what.

    With Love and Laughter, John Ritter Amy Yasbeck 2010

  • Uproarious laughter at a phantom story delivered by one of the four.

    Their Dogs Came With Them Helena María Viramontes 2007

  • All were designed with 32-knot speed, a draft of only 22 feet — five feet less than any other British capital ship — and armor so thin that the Grand Fleet, which dubbed them Outrageous, Uproarious, and Spurious, could find almost no use for them.

    Castles of Steel Massie, Robert K., 1929- 2003

  • Uproarious antics follow as the cast and members of the convent learn the true meaning of Christmas.

    The Nuncracker: The Nunsense Christmas Musical ealdthryth 2002

  • Uproarious and naïve are the humours of South Street, lying just behind us.

    Pipefuls Christopher Morley 1923

  • Uproarious storms raged unceasingly; the ship was driven amongst the Norwegian crags for shelter; and the gloom of these black, forbidding sea-precipices and fiords took possession of his soul, mixing and giving pictorial shape to the weird old legend of the phantom sailor doomed for ever to wander on the grey seas.

    Richard Wagner Runciman, John F 1913

  • (Uproarious laughter) So I reckon th 'best kind uv a boy scout is one that's deaf and dumb, but I ain't never seen none at this camp.

    Tom Slade on Mystery Trail Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

  • Uproarious laughter greeted the end of this story, and continued in fits as some humorous point recurred to one or the other of the listeners.

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • Uproarious laughter greeted the end of this story, and continued in fits as some humorous point recurred to one or the other of the listeners.

    Coniston — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

  • Uproarious laughter greeted the end of this story, and continued in fits as some humorous point recurred to one or the other of the listeners.

    Coniston — Volume 01 Winston Churchill 1909

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