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The question made me smile; its mirthless quality wasn't lost on Frank.
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I was obviously wrong.' His mirthless smile sent shivers down her spine.
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His laugh was as mirthless as the cackle of a guinea hen.
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She forced a mirthless smile, and clasped her fingers across her knee:
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He laughed a mirthless, cruel laugh, while the crew demanded my death.
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When Momma Oaks told me, I laughed, the sound bitter and mirthless.
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And suddenly his gust of mirthless laughter made petty the other's insolence.
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As their hands met, he looked up with a queer, mirthless smile.
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There's a serpent in every Eden, said Piers, with a mirthless laugh.
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I bark out a mirthless laugh that doesn't even sound like mine.
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With mirthless propriety he jotted one word on the announcement-'Approved'-andaddedhis initials.
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And something in the mirthless sound made the old workman pause.
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The guests shrieked with mirthless laughter at the suggestion of rough camp life.
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And the building chorus went on, strident and mirthless under the grey-white sky.
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She even smiled in a mirthless fashion-andthe man began to hope again.
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It was never on, really.' Isobel gave a mirthless little chuckle.
