You can hear the carters cracking their whips and crying hoarsely to their horses or to one another; and sometimes even a peal of healthy, harsh horse-laughter comes up to you through the darkness. ❋ Unknown (2005)
In the midst of some most pathetic passage, the parting of Jaffier with his dying friend, for instance, he would suddenly be surprised with a fit of violent horse-laughter. ❋ Various (N/A)
A gang of uncouth practical jokers, exploding in horse-laughter, skylarked about, jostling rudely. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)
Here the narrator bursts into explosion after explosion of thunderous horse-laughter, repeating that nub from time to time through his gaspings and shriekings and suffocatings. ❋ Unknown (1895)
The diabolical horse-laughter came again, and then the devil who had loosened the tongue of the dying woman in the intoxication of the drug made her reveal the worst secret of her tortured conscience. ❋ Hall Caine (1892)
They chucked the housewife and her daughters under the chin while receiving the food from their hands, and made coarse jests about them, accompanied with insulting epithets and bursts of horse-laughter. ❋ Unknown (1882)
Here the narrator bursts into explosion after explosion of thunderous horse-laughter, repeating that nub from time to time through his gasping and shriekings and suffocatings. ❋ Unknown (1872)
They chucked the housewife and her daughters under the chin whilst receiving the food from their hands, and made coarse jests about them, accompanied with insulting epithets and bursts of horse-laughter. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
One night when he entered his room he found about a dozen of the young fellows there carrying on a very lively conversation punctuated with horse-laughter. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
The squadron of boys had overtaken the cart full of girls, when, just as the waggon had come to the pitch of the hill, all the load of maidens were seen tumbling out at the back, and as the horses of the chariot halted, the girls 'screams, mingled with the horse-laughter of the boys, was plainly to be heard. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
I think I can call to mind some instances of the purest grotesque in his Reviews -- downright horse-laughter. ❋ Unknown (1835)
Coming out of that wondrous defile, I heard much talking, and for every word such wild horse-laughter as if some five hundred devils would shed their horns with laughing. ❋ Ellis Wynne (1702)
At this sally, the man’s brother compotators testified their satisfaction by redoubled peals of horse-laughter; and ❋ Unknown (2004)
The Clothes Philosopher whose huge burst of literary horse-laughter was levelled at the dandy does not always confine himself to indirect scoffing; here is a plain statement -- "First, touching dandies, let us consider with some scientific strictness what a dandy specially is. ❋ James Runciman (1871)
