mirth-provoking

As long as he salted in “a foundation of good sense,” the tidy Main Street critics were prepared to salute his “rich vein of mirth-provoking wit.”

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

As long as he salted in “a foundation of good sense,” the tidy Main Street critics were prepared to salute his “rich vein of mirth-provoking wit.”

Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

There is one table from which is sure to come a peal of laughter, and all eyes are turned toward Mark Twain, whose face is, perfectly mirth-provoking.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

Though a white leghorn, she has fighting blood in her veins, and as she hurled herself — stuttering with frantic exclamations — at the violator of her home, he backed with a mirth-provoking look of surprise and dismay.

Tropic Days 2003

LARRY WAS STRETCHED in their usual mirth-provoking fashion.

Ulysses 2003

There were no further interruptions, mirth-provoking or otherwise, as they descended the rest of the way to the main floor.

A Triumph of Souls Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000

Yet his tricks, things that he had done with the utmost ease a thousand times, had been a succession of blunders, rather mirth-provoking than mystifying to the audience.

The Ghost Ship Richard Middleton

Is there a mirth-provoking element in the ten to one chance that YOU may not see the morrow?

Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry A. Stanley Blicq

T.e great arrival of the year was Mr.E. T. Reed, who was to bring a new form of humour into _Punch_ -- or, rather, to bring back the old, rollicking, genuine low-comedy class of fun, more generous and mirth-provoking than the higher comedy of the day, that aims but to induce a smile.

The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

When brought, the green wood smoked so badly that suppers were late and rather cheerless; still there was spirit enough left in those stalwart hearts to start some mirth-provoking ditty, or indulge in good-natured raillery over the joys and comforts of pioneering.

The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate Eliza Poor Donner Houghton