Krink's laughter lit up the room.
Which is the bit where the nervous laughter bubbles up.
A lustful laughter swelled up, and the letters danced together, coupling in forbidden positions.
Clinking glasses and drunken laughter "came up muffled by the floorboards from the tavern downstairs. . . .
"When he returned to the boardroom," she wrote, "a roar of laughter went up".
"Not in the marriage," he added quickly, as laughter flowed up toward the ornate ceiling of City Hall.
But Jones stays breezy, and performs our conversation as comedy, with big, expressive, palm-punching laughter breaking up her sentences.
With that, a knowing round of laughter swelled up from the pews, the closest thing the annual AJC Decatur Book Festival can produce to an "amen".
Occasionally I heard some children playing on the lawn outside, their shouts and laughter rose up above the even, distant hum of the city.
The beer steins clinked merrily, laughter flowed up and down the long tables and a gentle, late-summer breeze whispered through the trees.
