We have re-perused them with renewed delight, and awakened again the echoes of our silent sanctum, in the excess of our cachinnatory enjoyment. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2] Reference
Captain Morrill urbanely apologized to Mr. Glover, and engaged himself to make it right in the morning; whereupon Mr. Glover withdrew in cachinnatory convulsions. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference
I know not whether it be prudent to come to terms with any man, however stentorian his lungs, or flexible his facial organs, with a view to engage him as a cachinnatory machine. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841] Reference
At length, by the enormous exertions the last duty imposed upon me, I sunk into a hopeless state of cachinnatory impotence: my risible muscles refused to perform their office, and I lost mine. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 25, 1841] Reference
Sir, -- Seeing in the first number of your paper an announcement from Mr. Thomas Hood, that he was in want of a laugher, I beg to offer my services in that comic capacity, and to hand you my card and certificates of my cachinnatory powers. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841] Reference
On which timely joke there follow cachinnatory buzzes of approval. From Wordnik.com. [The French Revolution] Reference
Such emotional superlatives merely create in the reader a cachinnatory revulsion. From Wordnik.com. [The Dramatic Values in Plautus] Reference
And, in the case of certain monkeys, the action of the facial muscles was accompanied by cachinnatory sounds. From Wordnik.com. [The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals] Reference
He threw his full length of limb upon a neighbouring sofa, and literally rolled with cachinnatory convulsions; nor did his risible emotions subside until the entrance of the hung-beef restored him to recollection. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Clifford — Complete] Reference
The laughing jackasses laughed their loudest, almost frightening her with their weird cachinnatory chorus; and the laughing hyæna screamed his sepulchral ha-ha-ha's so that he was heard all the way to Primrose Hill. From Wordnik.com. [Fan : the story of a young girl's life] Reference
"Ha! ha! ha! bravo, Linden!" cried Lord St. George, from the head of his splendid board, in approbation of some witticism of Clarence's; and ha! ha! ha! or he! he! he! according to the cachinnatory intonations of the guests rang around. From Wordnik.com. [The Disowned — Complete] Reference
I took him for anybody's skeleton, Death's ensign, with his cachinnatory skull, and the numbered ribs, and the extraordinary splay feet -- in fact, the whole ungainly and shaky hobbledehoy which man is built on, and by whose image in his weaker moments he is haunted. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Short Works of George Meredith] Reference
If Providence had made me graminivorous, I should have eaten grass; if ruminating, I should have chewed the cud; but as it has made me a carnivorous, culinary, and cachinnatory animal, I eat a cutlet, scold about the sauce, and laugh at you; and this is what you call being selfish! ". From Wordnik.com. [Ernest Maltravers — Complete] Reference
"Mr. Pelham," said this gentleman, who was dressed in a brown coat, white waistcoat, buff-coloured inexpressibles, with long strings, and gaiters of the same hue and substance as the breeches -- "Mr. Pelham, pray be seated -- excuse my rising, I'm like the bishop in the story, Mr. Pelham, too old to rise;" and Mr. Briggs grunted out a short, quick, querulous, "he -- he -- he," to which, of course, I replied to the best of my cachinnatory powers. From Wordnik.com. [Pelham — Complete] Reference
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