But the day of the deadline came and passed, and the men who had scoffed at the warnings laughed with satisfaction.

An Ah coudn ansuh him an so Ah said ' Aw right, Ah gay-ess, an his fathuh didn uttuh one wohd an aftuh Huhmun was gone, the majuh laughed an tole me thet he an the bawh had been hevin an occasional drink t'gethuh f'ovuh a yeah, onleh an occasional one, but just the same it was behahn mah back, an Ah doan think thet's nahce at all, d'you ''??

The callous marines had laughed at each other's retching, while stacking bodies.

And so when the others stampeded out that afternoon Jack remained docilely in his seat near a window, looking out in what he hoped was a pitiable manner, while the other kids laughed and yelled in at him and made faces as they dispersed, going home.

They laughed and, true to national form and manners, never talked long or solemnly on any subject at all, but some of them worried out loud about short memories and ghosts.

She knew she was feeling afraid and inwardly laughed at herself.

Those were especially the ones that all other grownups laughed at loudest.

She made a face at him and then she laughed.

She skipped a piece of water at him and laughed, a funny, hoarse laugh he liked to hear.

In his Materials for a History of the Baptists in Rhode Island, Edwards wrote :" The first mover himself for it Baptist college in 1762 was laughed at as a projector of a thing impracticable.

" I was determined to go ahead ", he later wrote, " for Hitler must be laughed at.

In another GameDaily article, they state that the goal of the game was not just to shoot all of the ducks, but to avoid being laughed at by the dog.

" at which Plato laughed.

The world had laughed at his satire, but few had interfered with his activities.

While he was attending McGill, a girlfriend laughed at his ineptness at the game of bridge, motivating him to immerse himself in a study of existing bridge materials.

Profanities in the original meaning of blasphemous profanity are part of the ancient tradition of the comic cults, which laughed and scoffed at the deity or deities.

There is an anecdote that Shaka joked with one of his friends, Magaye, that he could not kill Magaye because he would be laughed at.

Before the rebellion at the Stonewall Inn, homosexuals were, as historians Dudley Clendinen and Adam Nagourney write, a secret legion of people, known of but discounted, ignored, laughed at or despised.

Scholars have occasionally interpreted Lord Coke's ruling in Dr. Bonham's Case as implying the possibility of judicial review, but by the 1870s, Lord Campbell was dismissing judicial review as " a foolish doctrine alleged to have been laid down extra-judicially in Dr. Bonham's Case ..., a conundrum ought to have been laughed at.

Studio executives were nervous about the film's commercial prospects when preview audiences laughed at scenes of serious intent.

The premiere of Incubus took place at the San Francisco Film Festival on October 26, 1966, where, according to producer Taylor, a group of 50 to 100 Esperanto enthusiasts " screamed and laughed " at the actors ' poor pronunciation of the language.

This is an allegorical story of a war that has laughed at the world's flaunting boast of a higher progress.

Additionally, Big Nose Kate, at the end of her life in 1940 ( after the Lake biography of Earp had appeared in 1931 ), denied that the story was true and laughed at the idea of " a 116-pound woman holding a gun on a sheriff ".

But in an interview with BBC Sport at the time Bruno laughed at the story and denied he had any intention of standing.

" Katrina marries Brom, who is said " to look exceedingly knowing whenever the story of Ichabod was related, and always laughed heartily at the mention of the pumpkin ", which events " led some to suspect that he knew more about the matter than he chose to tell "; therefore, that he himself was the Horseman, of whose legend he took advantage so as to dispose of his rival.

The story goes that when Muirchertach arrived at Glendalough for Lorcán, he stated that he would draw lots to have one of his sons made a priest, at which Lorcán laughed as he had long thought of doing so.

Francis said he heard this story from immigrant steelworkers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ; he reported that they told him the word magarac was a compliment, then laughed and talked to each other in their own language, which he did not speak.

The novel continues with the story of Mi Heng's nude drum performance, and finishes his story by claiming that Cao Cao laughed after hearing of the death of Mi Heng, implied that he had sent him to Jing Province knowing very well that he would die there, and called him a " rotten pedant, done in by own his sharp tongue.

It was snowing at the time, the Wei generals were holding a party and laughed at the Wu soldiers when Liu Zan ordered them to discard their armour.

Justice Scalia ( joined by Chief Justice Roberts ) wrote in dissent that " the proposed Eighth Amendment would have been laughed to scorn if it had read ' no criminal penalty shall be imposed which the Supreme Court deems unacceptable.

But Crates with only his wallet and tattered cloak laughed out his life jocosely, as if he had been always at a festival.

In episode 39, " The One Where Ross and Rachel ... You Know ", Chandler, when asked if a girl has ever laughed when he kissed her, says yes, but mentions that it was because " it was 1982, and my Flock of Seagulls haircut was tickling her chin.

However, Louis Nigro claims that he " not even once " mentioned Laura to any of his clients, adding " they would have laughed at me if I did.

Or he would leave the last word out for the audience to finish and blamed them if they laughed.

A French interviewer even asked the film maker if the giant dirt, seen near the end of the movie, was a metaphor for the decadence of the Japanese society, but Kitano laughed and answered that not at all, it was only meant as a " local color " joke.

" In particular, Shaffer would recall vividly one specific audience member, " an enormously fat man in front of me, who hadn ’ t laughed once, he was the only man in the theatre, I think, who wasn ’ t laughing, and I decided that if he disliked it, it was a failure -- I didn ’ t know who he was, just that he was in my eye line, and if he liked it it was a success, you know how rational one can be — suddenly laughed like ... a volcano about to erupt, and he fell in the aisle and began to crawl towards the stage ... sobbing with laughter — and calling out to the actors — this was on the first night — crawling down among the knees of the critics and all that saying, “ Oh stop it, please stop it, please stop it!

He wrote, " When I asked him if he was married, he winked at me slyly and the other natives laughed heartily and declared to me subsequently that he does not love women, but only men.

*" Do not say beforehand what you are going to do ; for if you fail, you will be laughed at.

Avory initially refused to give Hastings a place in the chambers, but after Hastings lost his temper and exclaimed that " if he didn't want me to help him it would leave me more time to myself ", Avory laughed and changed his mind.

It will be enough for me if anyone tells me ' I laughed my ass off with your book.

When asked if there were anymore suspects, he reportedly laughed and retorted " Fuck you!

Francis Bacon, an early promoter of empiricism and the scientific method, argued that absurdity should not always be laughed at, since it is a necessary component of scientific progress, where bold new ways of thinking and bold hypotheses often led to absurdity, " For if absurdity be the subject of laughter, doubt you but great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

Gareth Southgate laughed off the rumours suggesting that Chelsea could get him for such a small fee, saying that if he was even to start to consider selling him, then Chelsea's bid would have to be much higher.

However, he refuses to turn back because he knows he would be scorned and laughed at by the waiter if he did.

Sorry if that caused you offence " The other presenters laughed.