1921, (w), The Big Town: How I and the Mrs. Go to New York to See Life and Get Katie a Husband, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, page 73:
“And this rug,” he says, stomping on an old rag carpet. “How much do you suppose that cost?” ¶ It was my first guess, so I said fifty dollars. ¶ “That’s a laugh,” he said. “I paid two thousand for that rug.”
1979, (w), (w)
Life's a piece of shit / When you look at it / Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true.
But there was such laughing! Queen Hecuba laugh'd that her eyes ran o'er.
1899, (w), s:Twelve OClock|Twelve O'Clock''
The roars of laughter which greeted his proclamation were of two qualities; some men laughing because they knew all about cuckoo-clocks, and other men laughing because they had concluded that the eccentric Jake had been victimised by some wise child of civilisation.
If life seems jolly rotten / There's something you've forgotten / And that's to laugh and smile and dance and sing.
puhekieltä To be or appear cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.
1693, (w), "Of the Pythagorean Philosophy", from the 15th book of Ovid's Metamorphoses
Then laughs the childish year, with flowerets crowned(..)
No wit to flatter left of all his store, No fool to laugh at, which he valu'd more.
1890, (w), (w), Chapter 3
There was something about him, Harry, that amused me. He was such a monster. You will laugh at me, I know, but I really went in and paid a whole guinea for the stage-box. To the present day I can't make out why I did so; and yet if I hadn't! – my dear Harry, if I hadn't, I would have missed the greatest romance of my life. I see you are laughing. It is horrid of you!"
1967, (w), (w)
On the corner is a banker with a motorcar / The little children laugh at him behind his back
puhekieltä To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule.
1611, (w), (w), act II, scene i:
Will you laugh me asleep, for I am very heavy?
1611, (w), (w), act II, scene ii:
I shall laugh myself to death.
puhekieltä To express by, or utter with, laughter.
1602, (w), (w), act I, scene iii:
From his deep chest laughs out a loud applause.
1866, (w), (w) or, A Womans Power''; Chapter 8
Fairfax addressed her as "my lady," she laughed her musical laugh, and glanced up at a picture of Gerald with eyes full of exultation.
1906, (w), (w)
"You refuse to take me seriously," Lute said, when she had laughed her appreciation. "How can I take that Planchette rigmarole seriously?"