Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...Bertha is eyes for me,' replied Carlin, with a laugh that sounded somewhat forced. 'And she knows all about a yacht, though you might not believe...
COLUMBIA will have her laugh at Princeton, as the columns of the Acta show. And the Acta is very witty, and we have our suspicions that "the home of M'Cosh and malaria" is apt to be worsted in an encounter on paper...
...through the loveliest blue eyes I had ever seen (so I thought then) and was altogether so bewitchingly pretty, that I - quickly stooped and kissed her. She left me suddenly enough, then; but I could not tell whether I had offended her or not. I thought not. You may laugh as much as you choose, young friend, but you would probably have done the same...
...looked at the boat: it was steadily coming nearer - nearer. I then discerned two figures in the stern, a man and a woman. They were talking excitedly; disputing, it seemed. The woman rose to her feet with a scornful little laugh; and then - horrible to think of - her companion gave her a sudden push, and she fell over the side into the water. Overcome with terror as I was, I staggered forward, and felt the cold waves about my feet; and so woke up, and found myself indeed standing half in water on the lonely, moonlit beach...
...knowing that we had a pretty sure thing of it; and they had particularly asked me to get odds of at least five to one, as somebody had told them that Harvard would probably back her team; but the very first Harvard man I struck had the impudence to laugh in my face, and ask me "how I had the cheek to ask for odds when our team had beaten Columbia thirteen goals and six touch-downs to nothing, while Harvard had only beaten her three goals and two touch-downs." Of course I could not talk with...