"Guffaw" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... New Englander in the superfluous decade, might find myself equal to. But there was no uproarious jollity; on the contrary, it was a pleasant gathering of literary people and artists, who took their pleasure not sadly, but serenely, and I do not remember a single explosive guffaw. ...
— Our Hundred Days in Europe • Oliver Wendell Holmes
... broke into a loud guffaw. He leaned over the gate and let his pipe fall on the other side and beat the post violently with ...
— The Soldier of the Valley • Nelson Lloyd
... some man of erudition, has knowledge to-day of sumptuary laws? We should laugh them all down with one Homeric guffaw, if to-day it entered somebody's head to propose a law that forbade fair ladies to spend more than a certain sum on their clothes, or numbered the hats they might wear; or that regulated dinners of ceremony, fixing the number of courses, the variety of wines, and the total expense; or that prohibited ...
— Characters and events of Roman History • Guglielmo Ferrero
... everything for granted. Rain, in his opinion, comes from a big tank up above somewhere. Asked as to his belief in the personal "debil-debil," of whom the mainland boys have such dread that few will stir out after dark, he said with a guffaw—"Me nebber bin see one yet. Suppose me see 'em, me run 'em!" George is, therefore, as yet unable to give a description of the fiend; but from hearsay authority declares that it possesses three eyes, two in the ordinary position, and one at the back of the head. It is believed that the third eye ...
— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield
... could guess how that silence was broken. He suddenly tossed his head back, and burst out with a great guffaw of laughter. I jumped ...
— The Paternoster Ruby • Charles Edmonds Walk
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