Here, with its bliss and agony, its cacophony and cachinnation, is. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 26, 1919] Reference
Dad's exclamation made Jake break out afresh into a loud cachinnation. From Wordnik.com. [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference
It was Dame Alice indulging in a wild cachinnation on her hunting horn. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
His display of irritation drew an explosive, misthievous cachinnation from the trio. From Wordnik.com. [The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police] Reference
The stoker laughed truculently, and Billy ventured upon a faint echo of the jeering cachinnation. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference
There arose from behind some nearby bushes a shrill cachinnation and out waddled a gaggle of purposeful geese. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Fool]
A good stomp from the two-clown-long-horn followed by an "Oooohooowee my aching bunions!" used to raise roaring cachinnation. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-04-02] Reference
The innate cruelty of the human animal is gratified, and the idea of a tailor's suffering is never conceived by a customer without involuntary cachinnation. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843] Reference
The man, hardly able to refrain from indulging in a positive fit of stentorian cachinnation, without deigning any auricular explanation, pointed to the bank, on which. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter] Reference
"Ha, ha, ha!" he continued, in still louder cachinnation. From Wordnik.com. [The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley] Reference
To them there was no mystery in that screaming cachinnation. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Slaves] Reference
But as I repeated them, he gave vent to a loud cachinnation. From Wordnik.com. [The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English] Reference
Again rings out the brutal cachinnation, chorused by his four followers. From Wordnik.com. [The Death Shot A Story Retold] Reference
It was quite tame and fearless, and used to make a loud chattering cachinnation. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
Where the studied insult of words had failed, this single cachinnation succeeded. From Wordnik.com. [Conjuror's House A Romance of the Free Forest] Reference
He had actually to lie down on the greensward to enjoy his prolonged cachinnation. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Charles Darwin] Reference
Rube and Garey broke into a loud cachinnation that awakened the rest of the slumberers. From Wordnik.com. [The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse] Reference
"Ha! ha! ha!" laughed the giant, with a cachinnation that resembled the neighing of a horse. From Wordnik.com. [The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley] Reference
And the brute broke out into a hoarse laugh, till the rocks echoed his fiendish cachinnation. From Wordnik.com. [The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley] Reference
Neither do I discover the source of thy cachinnation, seeing that the song is amatory and not comic. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob Faithful] Reference
Even the laughers themselves sometimes vituperate the cachinnation they indulge in, and many of them. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 438 Volume 17, New Series, May 22, 1852] Reference
By and by, he paused all at once; so suddenly, indeed, that my own cachinnation lasted a moment longer. From Wordnik.com. [The Blithedale Romance] Reference
A female form moving among the trees told me whence had come that unexpected and ill-timed cachinnation. From Wordnik.com. [The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness] Reference
Page 31 harsh and bitter cachinnation, but affording wondrous relief to that gentleman's over-charged breast. From Wordnik.com. [Aurora Floyd. A Novel] Reference
After another fiendish cachinnation, far more horrible to hear than his words of menace, the monster continued. From Wordnik.com. [The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness] Reference
Then, look at the baby when it has turned into a little boy or girl, and come up in some degree to the cachinnation. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 438 Volume 17, New Series, May 22, 1852] Reference
Then, upon a given signal, they threw their arms around the orphan and hugged him, while a violent cachinnation was heard. From Wordnik.com. [Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series] Reference
Snarls, and yaps, and yelps, and squawks, and guffaws, and sometimes the cachinnation and crow of cocks, broke upon the clear air. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time] Reference
A shrill, continued cachinnation, which, though human-like, could scarce be ascribed to aught human, save the laughter of a maniac. From Wordnik.com. [The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley] Reference
They may laugh in their heart, and with their eyes, although by some unlucky fatality, they have not the gift of oral cachinnation. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 438 Volume 17, New Series, May 22, 1852] Reference
But our song, like Dibdin's, 'means more than it says;' for a man, as we have stated, may laugh, and yet the cachinnation be wanting. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 438 Volume 17, New Series, May 22, 1852] Reference
As for the general mass, their piquancy is not so great as to superinduce in the reader of to-day a dangerously violent cachinnation. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller]
Everybody burst out laughing at this -- not a very trained cachinnation, but more of the giggle, even in Agatha; and Magdalen answered. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Broods] Reference
The next instant it may easily be lowered to the point where the ordinary cartoon of commerce or the tiny cachinnation of a machine-made. From Wordnik.com. [The Joyful Heart] Reference
His overwrought nerves being temporarily relieved by the cachinnation, he regained for a few minutes some measure of composure and sanity. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion] Reference
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