My request was greeted with a rude burst of laughter from the whole set.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

“Why not?” “Because with one woman you have a real bond of love which attaches you to her, while with a hundred women it's not the same at all.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

And as the beam of reflected Light by inclining the Speculum receded more and more from the beam of incident Light and from the common center of the colour'd Rings between them, those Rings grew bigger and bigger, and so also did the white round Spot, and new Rings of Colours emerged successively out of their common center, [Pg 308] and the white Spot became a white Ring encompassing them; and the incident and reflected beams of Light always fell upon the opposite parts of this white Ring, illuminating its Perimeter like two mock Suns in the opposite parts of an Iris.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

But I can't marry you and ruin both our lives.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

And Rogojin burst out laughing, this time with unconcealed malice, as though he were glad that he had been able to find an opportunity for giving vent to it.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

beat a retreat; turn tail, turn one's back; take to one's heels; runaway, run for one's life; cut and run; be off like a shot; fly, flee; fly away, flee away, run away from; take flight, take to flight; desert, elope; make off, scamper off, sneak off, shuffle off, sheer off; break away, tear oneself away, slip away, slink away, steel away, make away from, scamper away from, sneak away from, shuffle away from, sheer away from; slip cable, part company, turn one's heel; sneak out of, play truant, give one the go by, give leg bail, take French leave, slope, decamp, flit, bolt, abscond, levant, skedaddle, absquatulate
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Isn't it a real bit of luck for the town— Morten Kiil (suppressing his laughter).
— from An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen

Loud talk and resounding bursts of laughter might be heard as the friars moved slowly about, nodding their heads in unison with the big cigars that adorned their [ 214 ] lips.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

They all looked at me, as if they doubted whether or not they had heard me right: but, in a few moments, their surprise gave way to a rude burst of laughter.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

8 Note 8 ( return ) [ From the arguments of Celsus, as they are represented and refuted by Origen, (l. v. p. 247—259,) we may clearly discover the distinction that was made between the Jewish people and the Christian sect.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The first thing he does is to put the silk aboard ship, receiving from the steamship company a receipt (bill of lading) stating that the ten bales have been put aboard, and making them deliverable to the order of the banker in New York , who issues the credit.
— from Elements of Foreign Exchange: A Foreign Exchange Primer by Franklin Escher

Ludovico whispered a word or two in his cousin's ear, which the Princess forthwith communicated to her friends, for there was a renewed burst of laughter, ringing and deep, like a string of pearls dropping into a silver
— from The Child of Pleasure by Gabriele D'Annunzio

The king's keeping a standing army in the colonies; judges of admiralty receiving their fees, &c. from the effects condemned by themselves; counsellors holding commissions during pleasure, exercising legislative authority; and the capital grievance of all, the parliament claiming and exercising over the colonies a right both of legislation and taxation.
— from Novanglus, and Massachusettensis or, Political Essays, Published in the Years 1774 and 1775, on the Principal Points of Controversy, between Great Britain and Her Colonies by Daniel Leonard

It had a rapid and deep current, on each side of which was a wide space of shallow water and rolled boulders of lime and sand stone.
— from The American Indians Their History, Condition and Prospects, from Original Notes and Manuscripts by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

The Count had sailed from Toulon on the 13th of April, with twelve ships of the line and six frigates, having on board a respectable body of land forces.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall

In the sixteenth century, Borden relates the story of a valet of Francis I., named Brabant, who thus persuaded the mother of a young girl he courted to grant her consent to their marriage as speedily as possible, if she wished her husband’s soul to get out of the torments of purgatory: after marriage, however, he was disappointed in his pecuniary expectations, and he applied his powers of ventriloquism to terrify a rich banker of Lyons, of the name of Corner, to bestow a fortune upon his wife; for which purpose he assumed the voice of Corner’s father, who supplicated him to give the money as the only means of sending his poor consuming soul to paradise.
— from Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

[22] McClung, in his valuable Sketches of Western Adventure, in describing this sanguinary battle, speaks of the Indians fighting from behind a breastwork; Stone, in his Life of Brant, says the Indians were forced to avail themselves of a rude breastwork of logs and brushwood, which they had taken the precaution to construct for the occasion.
— from Life of Tecumseh, and of His Brother the Prophet With a Historical Sketch of the Shawanoe Indians by Benjamin Drake

but I wish ye would speak to Jacky Morison, Miss Anne, she’s learning the bairn nonsense ballants and—” “He shall be like a tree that grows, Near planted by a river,” burst out Lilie triumphantly.
— from Merkland; or, Self Sacrifice by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Suddenly a raucous bellow of laughter greeted his ears from a spot in front of him, hidden from his sight by a bend in the road.
— from Tales of St. Austin's by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse