MIRTH in a Sentence

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For MIRTH, below is one of 41 sentences:
But, instead of pulling the trigger, he lowered the muzzle again, and indulged himself in a fit of his peculiar mirth.

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 Meanings and Examples of MIRTH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
mirth
 n.  gladness and gaiety, especially when expressed by laughter
Classic Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1  For a moment she looked at it as if she had never seen it before and then she began to laugh, peal on peal of mirth that had in it no hint of hysteria.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
2  Finally Melly wiped tears of mirth from her eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
3  He laughed, too, throwing back his head as though he enjoyed laughter, thinking her mirth came from the friendly treachery of the men who had given Melly's secret away.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIII
4  Thus adjured, Lily turned her eyes on the spectacle which was affording Mr. Dorset such legitimate mirth.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
5  Ellen brought him one of her dust-caps, and went into contortions of mirth, which she found it impossible to control, when she saw him put it on before the mirror as grotesquely as he could.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIX
6  But, instead of pulling the trigger, he lowered the muzzle again, and indulged himself in a fit of his peculiar mirth.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 31
7  The dealers in the human article make scrupulous and systematic efforts to promote noisy mirth among them, as a means of drowning reflection, and rendering them insensible to their condition.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
8  But in proportion as his youth disappeared, gayety was kindled; he replaced his teeth with buffooneries, his hair with mirth, his health with irony, his weeping eye laughed incessantly.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE
9  Excess of zeal kills the grace and the mirth of good dinners.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES
10  I propose a toast to mirth; be merry.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES
11  Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN
12  These carriage-loads form mountains of mirth in the midst of the rout.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833
13  Now, as a half-smile was sufficient to awaken the irascibility of the young man, the effect produced upon him by this vociferous mirth may be easily imagined.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
14  His quiet manner and the ironical expression of his countenance redoubled the mirth of the persons with whom he had been talking, and who still remained at the window.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 1 THE THREE PRESENTS OF D'ARTAGNAN THE ELDER
15  with mirth and music the masquerade went on.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TEN
Example Sentence:
1  Murray Pick's hollow laugh had no mirth in it.
2  Her body began to shake with mirth.
3  Our mirth is then indeed an ornament to us when we serve God and honor him with it.