Adjective : a mirthful laugh. ,a mirthful experience. From Dictionary.com.
Tender and mirthful is your face. From Wordnik.com. [The Watchman and Other Poems] Reference
The show oscillates between kind of mirthful and mournful. From Wordnik.com. [Austin360 - XL Headlines] Reference
Amadis, I mean? "he asked, his blue eyes sparkling with a kind of mirthful ardour. From Wordnik.com. [Innocent : her fancy and his fact] Reference
Have led their children through the mirthful maze. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
Mr. Piper's laugh was more insulting than mirthful. From Wordnik.com. [Australian Writers] Reference
Thine eyes in mirthful, sidelong glance grow narrow. From Wordnik.com. [Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works] Reference
Where heaven smiles man also is tempted to be mirthful. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850] Reference
In every joyous, festive scene, in every mirthful burst. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon] Reference
The sea-birds, not at all disturbed by all our mirthful noise. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursery, No. 106, October, 1875. Vol. XVIII. A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers] Reference
Countess, who was curiously prying down upon the mirthful doings. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844] Reference
Taylor, the brisk, the mirthful Taylor is pressed and sent to sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 6, June 1810] Reference
"I am reasonably sure that you will," was Miriam's mirthful reply. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College] Reference
Holmes, keeps us in a perpetual chuckle over the mirthful pages of. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, April, 1886] Reference
The very worst hands are improved in six short and mirthful lessons. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 17, 1841] Reference
They are two moods which come to every one, the mirthful and the sad. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
To me the world was almost mirthful if its good-byes came less frequent. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
This he sang to a horrible mirthful tune, again spinning round on one foot. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1] Reference
"In charge?" she asked, with a little tender, mirthful tremor in her voice. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
"Of course we did," cheerfully answered Judith, her mirthful features sobering. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Allen: Right Guard] Reference
Elinor was already half asleep when Patricia suddenly sat up with a mirthful gurgle. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at School] Reference
His blue eyes flashed up and met the mirthful dark ones scanning his sulky face amusedly. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
"You don't know Tracey Miles as well as I do," Penny assured him, her eyes still mirthful. From Wordnik.com. [Murder at Bridge] Reference
Thereupon he laughed, and dared her to be game, and she grew all mirthful confidence again. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortieth Door] Reference
The incident was the touch, in the mirthful experience of that night, that passed endurance. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference
Next morning the girls were hilarious over the mirthful episode in the train the night before. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls in the Saddle Or, The Girl Miner of Gold Run] Reference
"The illustrations are perhaps even more mirthful than the letterpress, but both are admirable.". From Wordnik.com. [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference
For, though there came from somewhere just the last ripple of a mirthful laugh, the hall was empty!. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896] Reference
Charles Lamb will be likely to rush into mirthful ecstasies over the humor of "The Greyson Letters.". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference
Colette's eyes were dancing with the delight of mischief-making as she directed, in soft but mirthful tones. From Wordnik.com. [Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley] Reference
The next moment the expression of mirthful contempt faded from his thin, ardent features, and he fell a-thinking. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
Dundee demanded indignantly, but the sustained ringing of the telephone bell checked Penny Crain's mirthful laughter. From Wordnik.com. [Murder at Bridge] Reference
It may here be enquir'd, What Species of Composition or Character is the most pleasurable, and mirthful, in all Nature?. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay towards Fixing the True Standards of Wit, Humour, Railery, Satire, and Ridicule (1744)] Reference
A mirthful goddess might have trilled it -- a laugh like sunshine and flowers and chasing cloud shadows on waving grass. From Wordnik.com. [The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day] Reference
Dan looked towards it, then broke into a laugh, perhaps the first real mirthful sound that had passed his lips since his brother's death. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls] Reference
In antithesis to this the risable nerves were placed in us for mirthful music, and I pity the one who has broken the keys and cannot laugh. From Wordnik.com. [Wit, Humor, Reason, Rhetoric, Prose, Poetry and Story Woven into Eight Popular Lectures] Reference
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