And something in the mirthless sound made the old workman pause.

A short, mirthless sound as much like a cry of pain as anything.

More than I could. She gave a slight, mirthless sound that wasn't really a laugh.

The latter laughed uproariously, a jangling mirthless sound followed by a mumble of words without connective sense.

Soames' laugh was a short, single and mirthless sound from the throat, unaccompanied by any movement of the face or brightening of the eyes.

"And we will all end like a fairy story," she declares, trying to laugh, but it is such a poor, mirthless sound.