And at black midnight, from the lonely cross-roads where he turned from town into his own place, came his plaguey cachinnations to rouse me from my sleep and make me writhe and clench my nails into my palms. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Nameless is infuriated that Claverhouse, whose very name is hateful and ridiculous, is always happy, optimistic, cheerful, always laughing his annoying, Gargantuan, laugh ( "his plaguey cachinnations"). ❋ Unknown (2008)
I began to laugh, Larry joined me, and then Kra and Gulk joined in our merriment with deep batrachian cachinnations and gruntings. ❋ Unknown (2004)
How delicately may he modulate his merriment, and control his cachinnations, establishing a regular gamut, rising from the titter to the guffaw, abating from the irrepressible horse-laugh to the gratified snigger. ❋ Various (N/A)
Another perfect thing from this diverting piece, followed also by Homeric cachinnations, was the mock-serious apophthegm: "If a cloud is going to support a lady of substantial proportions, you must make it fairly solid." ❋ Various (N/A)
Instead, however, of their laughter lessening, the cachinnations became so violent that I began to feel seriously alarmed. ❋ Various (N/A)
Her merry peals of laughter rang through the woods with an echo that sounded as if all the trees had taken up the chorus, and supported her in bursts of silvery-toned cachinnations. ❋ Colin Munro (N/A)
With these reflections, and an occasional outbreak of reminiscent cachinnations on the part of the junior, the brothers dropt off to sleep, tired with the day's journey and the events of the night. ❋ Colin Munro (N/A)
Mr. Daney's honest cachinnations now were so infectious that Nan commenced to laugh with him -- heartily, but no longer with that strident little note of resentment, and cumulatively, as Mr. Daney's mirth mounted until the honest fellow's tears cascaded across his ruddy cheeks. ❋ Unknown (1918)
My two uncles turned from my indignant form to regard each other; then, all at once, the grim lips of my uncle Jervas twitched, quivered to a flash of white teeth, but his laughter was drowned by uncle George's cachinnations where he stood on one leg, slapping at the other brawny thigh until the dust flew. ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)
Its inarticulate, horrible cachinnations voiced her humor uncannily. ❋ Rupert Hughes (1914)
Enriched by a new and great experience, the torturer trotted on, leaving viperish cachinnations in his wake. ❋ Unknown (1912)
It is given to few to see their hopes and aspirations realised so beautifully and quickly; as in a dream he listened to the hideous cachinnations that floated up through the slabs of the trench-board. ❋ Unknown (1912)
The shrill cachinnations of a prairie dog, the shriek of a burrowing owl or the bawling of a range cow; any of these usual sounds of the open failed to rouse him; but invariably he knew when a man was dangerously near. ❋ Charles Livingston Bull (1910)
The sounds were new to them and the snowy waste was filled with bewilderingly different inflections that ripped back and forth through opposing waves of sound till it seemed that jeering cachinnations rose from a thousand fiends. ❋ Charles Livingston Bull (1910)
In passing, the cachinnations of the laughing hyena are rather a series of high-voiced self-conscious titters than laughter. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)
Every wild syllable was flung back like a shot from the surrounding hills, till the air seemed full of loons, all mingling their crazy cachinnations with the din of the chief performer. ❋ William Joseph Long (1909)
