LAUGHTER in Classic Quotes

1  Both boys yelled with laughter.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

2  The laughter and talking became less animated and groups here and there fell silent.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

3  "I'd like to learn it," replied his companion, a hint of buried laughter in his flat drawling voice.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X

4  Then there was an excited babble of negro voices in the darkness of the yard and high-pitched negro laughter.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV

5  The laughter and talking rose and fell in the dark night air, pleasant, homely, carefree sounds, gutturally soft, musically shrill.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV

6  Ellen had stressed this at great length after catching Frank's lieutenant swinging Scarlett in the garden swing and making her squeal with laughter.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII

7  The house seemed bursting with the crowd, and a ceaseless babble of talking and laughter and giggles and shrill feminine squeaks and screams rose and fell.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

8  Matrons, regardless of their ages, always grouped together apart from the bright-eyed girls, beaux and laughter, for there were no married belles in the South.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

9  "Sure, because she didn't have a second day," Gerald explained and bawled with laughter before recalling that perhaps such remarks were not fit for female ears.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X

10  Their clever remarks sent her into merry peals of laughter and, inspired by the thought that she considered them a remarkable pair, they fairly outdid themselves.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

11  Then he walked across the lawn with John Wilkes, his black head in the air, and the sound of his discomforting laughter floated back to the group about the tables.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

12  The barbecue had reached its peak and the warm air was full of laughter and talk, the click of silver on porcelain and the rich heavy smells of roasting meats and redolent gravies.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

13  To the ears of the three on the porch came the sounds of hooves, the jingling of harness chains and the shrill careless laughter of negro voices, as the field hands and mules came in from the fields.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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14  The hard little pain had at last reached Scarlett's throat and she wailed out loud--not, as Pittypat thought, for poor Charlie but because the last sounds of the wheels and the laughter were dying away.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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15  All she could think of was that she loved him--everything about him, from the proud lift of his gold head to his slender dark boots, loved his laughter even when it mystified her, loved his bewildering silences.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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16  And then there were-- Oh, there were so many things to do to bachelors and she knew them all, the nuance of the sidelong glance, the half-smile behind the fan, the swaying of the hips so that skirts swung like a bell, the tears, the laughter, the flattery, the sweet sympathy.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

17  Then, as if brought into being by the waltz music, sounds floated in from the shadowy moonlit street below, the trample of horses' hooves and the sound of carriage wheels, laughter on the warm sweet air and the soft acrimony of negro voices raised in argument over hitching places for the horses.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX