There was a laughing devil in his sneer.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: The Corsair. Canto i. Stanza 9.

A very merry, dancing, drinking,

Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.

John Dryden (1631-1701): The Secular Masque. Line 40.

When Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.

Reginald Heber (1783-1826): Seventh Sunday after Trinity.

And moody madness laughing wild

Amid severest woe.

Thomas Gray (1716-1771): On a Distant Prospect of Eton College. Stanza 8.

You hear that boy laughing?—you think he's all fun;

But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done;

The children laugh loud as they troop to his call,

And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.

Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894): The Boys.