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Joseph Buonaparte's American wife said to an American gentleman, whom I heard quote her words, that she "never laughed because it made wrinkles:" there is a good deal of wisdom in that cachinatory abstinence.
Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida 1839-1908 Ouida 1873
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"Well, then," I said, "Larkin was an indolent juvenile, fond of mirthfulness and cachinatory and saltatory exercises --"
Queer Stories for Boys and Girls Edward Eggleston 1869
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He spoke but seldom, and seldom laughed; but, when he did give way, no premonitory smile played along and relaxed his features, which would suddenly convulse with cachinatory thunder and then as suddenly collapse into their stern rigidty.
Alamance; Or, the Great and Final Experiment viii, 9-151, [1] p. 1847
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We hadn't more than got out of hearing of Sol's cachinatory explosions, before we met one of his neighbours, who gave us to understand that the ducking we had just received, was but the fulfilment of a threat of Sol's, to make the "chicken-man" take a swim in the "Buck Hole."
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Also a choice cachinatory chronicle, entitled "How to Laugh, and what to
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 27, 1841 Various
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