mirth is like a flash of lightning that breaks through a gloom of clouds and glitters for a moment. From LearnThat.org. [Joseph Addison (1672-1719).]
I must say that it was time well spent, my mirth is gigantic!. From Wordnik.com. [Not Quite Conan - Web Comics Edition!] Reference
LADY LANDSWORTH: Their mirth is insipid and their raillery abusive. From Wordnik.com. [The Beau Defeated: or, The Lucky Younger Brother] Reference
General Lee; 'and in mirth and laughter and song the night wears away. From Wordnik.com. [Running the Blockade into the Port of Wilmington, North Carolina] Reference
Two things are made use of to excite and express vain mirth, and the jovial crew is here deprived of both: -- (1.). From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
He shows that there is no true happiness and satisfaction to be had in mirth and pleasure, and the delights of sense, ver. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference
That mirth is sinful indeed, and fills the measure of men's iniquity apace, which profanes sacred things and jests with them. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
In theatre three, Cleo plays her usual part: "If we find him sad,/Say we am dancing; if in mirth, report/That we am conspicuous sick.". From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference
I believe I may give a pretty good guess at what they call mirth in such pieces as These, and shall endeavour to satisfy them. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference
And ghostly as remembered mirth, which is largely Tennyson again. From Wordnik.com. [Platform Monologues] Reference
Part of his mirth was assumed, but he considered it his humane duty to cheer up the. From Wordnik.com. [The Chinago] Reference
For truly his mirth was a charming thing; the very air surrounding him appeared to laugh. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English] Reference
Part of his mirth was assumed, but he considered it his humane duty to cheer up the Chinago. From Wordnik.com. [The Chinago] Reference
When she knew my mind she but smiled in mirth And cried, ‘Now, by the Maker of Heaven and Earth!. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
He laughed, laughed so hard his brick-sized abdominal muscles knotted and he doubled over in mirth. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-12-01] Reference
The cause of their mirth was the appearance of a tall, thin, and very lugubrious-looking man who had come on the bridge to see the fire. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting the Flames] Reference
But the ghostly mirth is silent. From Wordnik.com. [The Four Winds of Eirinn] Reference
Till every ill be merged in mirth. From Wordnik.com. [Verse Memorials.] Reference
They surpassed themselves in mirth. From Wordnik.com. [Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese] Reference
To hide her make-mirth from the schoolmaster. From Wordnik.com. [Aurora Leigh] Reference
"Your mirth is thin and bitter as your drink.". From Wordnik.com. [Smoke Bellew - The Taste of the Meat] Reference
Because their cause of mirth is hid from me. From Wordnik.com. [Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. II. I. Southern Passages and Pictures; II. Historical and Dramatic Sketches; III. Scripture Legends; IV. Francesca Da Rimini] Reference
Of the loud hills shakes with its mountain mirth. From Wordnik.com. [Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country] Reference
He has none of that irresponsible mirth which is the consolation of most poor men in England. From Wordnik.com. [A Miscellany of Men] Reference
I'm doubled over in mirth. From Wordnik.com. [Me, Bobby D, and my 10 favourite foods] Reference
(as always with Ashbery) full of every kind of mirth, from the most sombre to the most enchanted. '. From Wordnik.com. [DC's] Reference
We lived in a mock-chateau full of diversions and mirth. From Wordnik.com. [Blackballed] Reference
He chuckled, a sound without mirth or frivolity, and sang. From Wordnik.com. [Sing] Reference
By then, I confess, I too was shaking, with disrespectful mirth. From Wordnik.com. [The Rake's Progress; BBC Prom 35; Three Choirs festival] Reference
They buried us with songs, and mirth. From Wordnik.com. [A D O N I S] Reference
Sia mimes her action of taking him out from behind; causes a fresh explosion of mirth. From Wordnik.com. [Mob] Reference
Rebekka released the caged mirth that the boys had forced back on her, and the two fairly danced. From Wordnik.com. [Old Egg] Reference
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