The most that I could do was to lie back upon my bed, cram my fascinator into my mouth, and struggle to suppress my risibles.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman who went to Alaska] Reference

This was too much for the lame girl's risibles, and she laughed outright, long and loud, to Peace's secret delight, for when the Lilac.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lilac Lady] Reference

I dared not laugh at the child's earnestness, though I had some trouble in controlling my risibles, the aforesaid young officer not having.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route] Reference

It was with difficulty that Mrs. Harold controlled her risibles, so utterly absurd rather than pathetic was the whole situation, for not one atom of real grief for Joshua lay in poor, shallow Minervy's heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home] Reference

Mr. Elkins told Abraham he would make a good pioneer boy, and "'What's a pioneer boy?' asked Abraham," why was Mr. Elkins "quite amused at this inquiry"? and why did he "exercise his risibles for a minute" before replying?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference

This something frequently covers a good deal of ground, for with one or two of the boys it means pranks or roguishness of some sort, which really enlivens the whole household and keeps our risibles from growing rusty by disuse.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman who went to Alaska] Reference

These evenings were sometimes varied by recitations from an elocutionist on board; and a practised clog dancer excited the risibles of the company to the extent that they usually shouted with laughter at his exhibition of flying heels.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman who went to Alaska] Reference

At this remarkable procession my risibles proved triumphant.    From Wordnik.com.  [A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66,] Reference

The fun of the thing moved F. 's risibles and he burst into a jovial laugh.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868] Reference

Lewis's artistic risibles were at their height, and he set to work to draw him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers] Reference

Bacon's college, in his "New Atlantis," moved the risibles of fat-witted Oxford.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism] Reference

For the first time during the long dreary round his risibles were tickled and he wanted to laugh.    From Wordnik.com.  [It, and Other Stories] Reference

I might even have attacked your risibles by anecdotes about my little boy at home and the southern colonel.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Malcolm] Reference

Captain Blowitt, as soon as he was able to speak, for his risibles seemed to have obtained complete control of him.    From Wordnik.com.  [On The Blockade] Reference

A remark was made about my hair and eyes, and their risibles gave way; judgment was passed on my nose, and then came a ripple of laughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andersonville — Volume 1] Reference

Barbara and her mother receiving Sary and Jeb proved too much for her risibles and she laughed merrily as she replied to Sary's announcement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Polly and Eleanor] Reference

Miss Upton did not help her out, but, regaining control of her risibles, continued to eat and drink placidly, allowing her companion to cerebrate.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Apple-Blossom Time A Fairy-Tale to Date] Reference

"Captain," said Mr. Hadenskeldt, vainly endeavouring to control his risibles, "let us attend to the trial now: may be it isn't as bad as you suppose.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches. By a Country Editor. With a Portrait from Life, and Other Illustrations, by Darley] Reference

It was that heathenish possession, the old insanity of the risibles, which makes a man think it a humourous thing that his friend should be discovered in love.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guest of Quesnay] Reference

Mrs. Pettibone's eyes twinkled and her rosy cheeks drew up into a series of crinkled dimples which tickled Mrs. Spain's risibles to the extent of making her emit a.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elected Mother] Reference

"Suppose, after I get up there on that plateau, I didn't find any man at all," I ventured faint-heartedly, but with a ripple of my risibles; the last in life I fear.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tinder-Box] Reference

Vice-President equally appreciated the joke with me, it was some time before we could control our risibles sufficiently to make arrangements for the release of Rivers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Expressman and the Detective] Reference

But the terminations of the stanzas rendered the thing transparent to the audience during the delivery, as was quite manifest from the general movement of their risibles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman] Reference

As she spoke Mrs. Pettibone's eyes twinkled and her rosy cheeks drew up into a series of crinkled dimples which tickled Mrs. Spain's risibles to the extent of making her emit a deep-voiced chuckle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elected Mother] Reference

"Yes, Henrietta is a handful, Mr. Haley," I answered with enthusiasm, for even the mention of Henrietta enlivens me and somehow Mr. Haley's getting in the game of "curbing" her stirred up my risibles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tinder-Box] Reference

Now these provincialisms might have excited the risibles of so keen a set of grammarians as we were, only that Miss Randall was a dead shot in any case of difficulty presented by the learned languages.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oldtown Folks] Reference

"Oh," answered he, "it is down yonder," at the same time pointing to a street a quarter of a mile distant or more, and scarcely able to control his risibles as he thought of the joke he was about to perpetrate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bobbin Boy or, How Nat Got His learning] Reference

I forgot that you were a bachelor, "he replied, when his risibles had subsided sufficiently for him to talk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Love Story of Abner Stone] Reference

"I remember distinctly," she answered, "seeing them look into preserve jars and cut glass decanters, until my mother's risibles no longer could be repressed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A belle of the fifties : memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama, covering social and political life in Washington and the South, 1853-66,] Reference

"When you New Yorkers have learned what these barbarians already know, the control of your over-sensitized risibles and a courtesy deeper than your shirt-fronts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Call of the Cumberlands] Reference

"I'm not ridiculing you or the awful mess you have made of your life," retorted Eleanor with a sly grin, "but I cannot help giving vent to my risibles when you take it all so seriously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Polly's Business Venture] Reference

Nothing) turned his lugubrious face towards Mrs. Morse, and addressed her as Mrs. Morgan under the impression that she had come down to see her daughter married, Miriam's risibles could no longer.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Confederate girl's diary,] Reference

Tu montres ces pudeurs risibles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays in Little] Reference

All of our risibles simply unyoke.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tobogganing on Parnassus] Reference

I had regained control of my risibles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The end of an era,] Reference

It was too much for Mrs. Evringham's risibles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jewel] Reference

"What excites your risibles, gentlemen," asked Dudley, severely.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance] Reference