risibility

1 Excepting only tobacco, it is the greatest weed that grows, and it has the advantage over tobacco that it does no man any harm, but serves only to excite his risibilities.

2 Priscilla's mourners' bench, it must be owned, was graced by the presence of one or two veteran troopers, the mention of whose names was enough to start the risibilities of that godless array, "the Mess."

3 Old Matthew's risibility was evidently much tickled by the sense of their thwarted purpose.

4 First, so that human nature be the cause thereof: thus risibility is befitting to Socrates by reason of human nature, being caused by its principles.

5 A circumstance so odd, so ludicrous, could not fail to excite the risibility of their riders; and laugh both did, despite their serious mood at the moment.

6 The absurdities he is guilty of, the capers he cuts, excite our philosophic risibility.

7 It is exceedingly difficult for a boy to show off without exciting risibility.

8 He shocked the company by maintaining that the attributes of God were two—power and risibility; and that it was the duty of every pious man to keep up the comedy.

9 The sight was too much for the risibilities of the Irish boy, and he forgot that he had been severely bitten by "centipades."

10 A passage which I can refer only to the erudition and risibility of our modern surgeons and anatomists.

11 “Caramba!” he threw himself back and gave noisy vent to his risibility.

12 Her sense of humor was keen, and her merriment when his recitals touched her risibility was extravagant.

13 The ridiculous frequency of this tragic demonstration causes me to laugh outright, in spite of an effort to control my risibilities.

14 This was too much for the pent-up risibilities of the audience who laughed long and loud, greatly to the disturbance of the solemnity of the occasion.

15 He does not, like many Clowns, content himself with raising a horse-laugh by contortions and grimaces, but tickles the fancy, and excites the risibility of an audience by devices as varied as they are ingenious.

16 “Hello!” he cried at length, “what’s up?” after his companion had made one or two ineffectual efforts to control her risibility.

17 As a boy my risibilities were easily excited, and I'm glad that, even yet, I have not entirely overcome that weakness.

18 This was too much for the risibility of the girls crowding in at the door, and no pounding of the broom handle could entirely quell the giggles.

19 The risibilities of the sowars, however, are stirred to their deepest depths, and they nearly choke themselves in desperate efforts to keep from laughing outright.

20 His great talent was to take tiny grains of information in reports and proposals, repackage them as official European policy and present them as part of a broad narrative about Brussels’ risibility.

1 笑

risible laughter

2 欢笑

mirth merriment

3 幽默感

humor risible sense of humor

4 会笑

risible

5 爱笑

risible