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Meanings of good-humoured laugh in English

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Usage of good-humoured laugh in English
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De Batz' good-humoured laugh helped her to hide this unwonted access of confusion.
El Dorado: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel
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Adding, with a good-humoured laugh: "I'm a disappointment to my mother."
The Moon out of Reach
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Robin stared at his visitor haughtily for a moment and then broke into a good-humoured laugh.
The Prince of Graustark
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The lad's careless good-humoured laugh under Ancrum's probings was evidence enough of how the land lay.
The History of David Grieve
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The squire burst into a good-humoured laugh.
With Wolfe in Canada: The Winning of a Continent
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Vivian shot a swift glance over her shoulder at her sister-in-law, and then broke into a good-humoured laugh.
The Hollow of Her Hand
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Polly laughed, a bouncing, good-humoured laugh.
Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I
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Richard Sharp burst into a laugh at this, a good-humoured laugh in which there was more of amusement than annoyance.
Personal Reminiscences in Book Making, and Some Short Stories
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But I hope to have one good-humoured laugh with you, and to embrace Dwyer, and pledge Hodgson, before I commence cynicism.
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 1 / With His Letters and Journals
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Or else he would lean back from the breakfast table with the most good-humoured laugh you ever heard and say: Ha!
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
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'Me trade, is it?' she answered, with a feeble, good-humoured laugh.
Despair's Last Journey
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"A truce on thine ill-temper," broke in Escanes with a good-humoured laugh.
"Unto Caesar"
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"Very improving book, sir," remarked the old farmer, with a good-humoured laugh.
Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women
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"You've struck it," said Edestone, with a good-humoured laugh at himself.
L.P.M. : The End of the Great War
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"Lud bless my soul!" exclaimed Sally, with a good-humoured laugh, "what be they all wanting now, I wonder!"
The Scarlet Pimpernel
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"I see that," returned the prince, with a good-humoured laugh; "and I fear you're a deaf old woman, too."
The Hot Swamp
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Good-humoured laugh across language varieties
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