I heard, not long since, a laughable story, to illustrate this fact.
If you like a laughable story, I can tell you one which I was thinking of not a minute since.
Then all the people began to muster round their dead enemy, and it was laughable to see and hear how they abused and kicked the body of the pig.
We went through thelaughable farce of a trial of the 'Enossis' on board a vessel lying in port (I dare not land), which of course ended in nothing.
Every thing in the household was done by order, with the pomp of proclamation; and laughable as it may now seem, an order was issued for the right making of mustard, beginning "It seemeth good to us and our council.
When they were all done, I got up and told some laughable story, and quit.
The Eton Boy," to which were added a "sparkling comedietta" and a "laughable farce.
The old priest in charge did not appear especially delighted to see us until I slipped a Mexican dollar into his hand--then it was laughable to see his change of face.
Most of the letters were laughable in the extreme.
I only speak thus because it is laughable to hear a man say that he cannot ask one whom he professes to love, to marry him unless she has a certain number of thousands, because, forsooth, his father will disinherit him!
It was queer and laughable to himself--this line of talk that came to him.
It is a very laughable thing now, the third most laughable thing I ever met with in my lifetime.
Indeed, for sheerlaughable absurdity on the stage, Sir Tophas would be hard to beat.
But whether Voltaire accepted the 'New Atalantis,' or the Examiner, as an authority for the statements of his very laughable passage, it is scarcely credible that he believed himself to be penning the truth.
Few stories relating to witnesses are more laughable than that which describes the arithmetical process by which Mr. Baron Perrot arrived at the value of certain conflicting evidence.
I think it exceedingly laughable and a little dishonest --with the further fault that it is wholly unconstitutional.
I think, though, the most laughable incident that has come under my notice was that of a certain plebe who made himself famous for gourmandizing.
It was rather laughableto hear a cadet, who was expounding the theory of twilight, say, pointing to his figure on the blackboard: "If a spectator should cross this limit of the crepuscular zone he would enter into final darkness.
Another incident, even more laughable perhaps than the preceding, occurred between a cadet and plebe, which doubtless saved the plebe from further hazing.
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The chase they led him would have been a laughable sight, had he not looked so small and forlorn plodding along in his clumsy wooden shoes, and a peasant's blouse of blue cotton, several sizes too large for his thin little body.
The smile was so encouraging that Joyce's determination not to tell melted away, and she began a laughable account of the afternoon's adventure.
It was laughable to see five or eight great awkward fellows pulling about a little toy, like a waggon, which a baby could have thrown about at pleasure.
It is odd, and to us laughable to see them putting them on.
Our mathematical imagination is put on the rack by an attempted conception that has all the anguish of a nightmare and probably, could we but awake, all its laughable absurdity.
Don Quixote is mad; he is old, useless, and ridiculous, but he is the soul of honour, and in all his laughable adventures we follow him like the ghost of our better selves.
A laughable circumstance took place in the Fourteenth Ward, Philadelphia, during the drafting.
The straits to which I was put were any thing but laughable at the time, though the recollection now often excites a smile.
In an easy quiet way, she either sent her rider over her head, or by a laughable manoeuvre sitting down like a dog on her haunches, slipped him off the other way.
Many laughable incidents and anecdotes characteristic of such an institution are fresh in my memory, which, I should be pleased to relate, did they illustrate the subject in hand.
There were some of them which, to be sure, were ludicrous and laughable enough.
It is quite laughable to see, as one sometimes does, one member speaking, and another accompanying the speech with his action.
A good, wholesome, laughable presentation of some Americans at home and abroad, on their vacations, and during their hours of relaxation.
Then, following up the subject, he spoke of the peculiar and laughable customs and habits of the Chinese, thus causing even the proud queen to laugh at his humorous descriptions.
They examined with eagerness the medals upon which the enemies of Frederick were represented in various laughable situations and positions.
This reversal of the natural situation was in itself full of laughable possibilities, had the book gone on simply as a burlesque.
There was nothing laughable about the earnestness of men like Cromwell, Milton, Algernon Sidney, and Sir Henry Vane.
It could seem to her now as a laughable piece of prudery and timidity, that she had endeavored at one time to exert an influence to remove Eric from the vicinity.
She represented to herself how laughable it would be for a nun to be going through the garden with a dog at her heels, and how intolerable if every nun had a dog of her own.
When Eric went with Roland into the passenger's room, he was surprised to see Roland's quick eye for the laughable characteristics of people.
They were in very good spirits whilst assigning to some one of their circle of acquaintance one and another motto, which sometimes seemed a laughable contrast to the real character, and sometimes a striking expression of it.
Is it notlaughable that a battle is to be fought here?
There stood the poor fellow, and it waslaughable to think of his daring to aspire to an equality with a Pranken.
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