Uncle Tom’s Cabin vocabulary

Levin felt envious of this health and mirthfulness; he longed to take part in the expression of this joy of life.

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)

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Apparently, the site of a foreign man with a mask and snorkel resting askew on his head, sliding down a boat ramp like a toddler on a slide, is regarding as funny in the Marquesan culture. The kids hooted and laughed and pointed and basically collapsed in a pile of mirth.

J. Maarten Troost. Headhunters on My Doorstep, pp.87-8 (2013)

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Darcy was not of a disposition in which happiness overflows in mirth; and Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather knew that she was happy,

Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)