traders, lovers and poets. They are exuberant and flamboyant; when they laugh their humour is infectious and without spite, when they love they do so with

seemed to acknowledge me, one hand raised in a mocking salute. His cold laugh carried on the wind towards me, and my heart turned to ice at the sudden

luck and may want to adopt a few harmless superstitions about it. You may laugh off any suggestion that you take ideas of luck and fortune seriously, but

of being alive. A stormcrow might find themselves preaching the need to laugh in the face of death, conducting grand and glorious death rites, or testing

years too, patient as a beaver, back and forth. And people will laugh, just like they laughed at Topi." "I've heard the story Cordelia, but it's different

accommodations we can with them, or they will just... eat us." That made Alov laugh. "They don't really eat orcs, Kassa. That's just a silly story to scare young'uns

mazzarine, bladeroot, and marrowort. "Now, woman, we shall see who has the last laugh!" Jennifer of Adlecombe sagged, her vision blurred. Thanks to the wicked

attempt such an ambitious design..." The prince cut him off with a harsh laugh. "And that is why you are an academic, and I am a merchant prince, Doctor

then they will sit there and be wasted!” “Better you than I, and I will laugh as I live!” But, in time, word began to spread of the rarity of Oksana’s

into the world, and they know I’ll send ‘em out of it again if they ever laugh at me. Wearing this-” she lifted the sleeve, which fell to the side of the

their counterparts were already beginning to assemble. She tried not to laugh as she spotted Keki, the funny little koboldi servant of the Mountain King

stopped cutting all the trees down. In the end the Marchers had the last laugh however - they cut down almost all the trees leaving only a scattering of

miserably. Caryl reflected on how irksome it was that he always tried to laugh off serious matters. Sometimes, she thought tangentially, the mood does not

back one day I promise!" The old poacher wheezed and coughed, a hacking laugh that brought up a bolus of phlegm that he spat into the fog. "Nope. You won't

that lures sailors to their cold and choking graves. The Dawnish tend to laugh at them - there is magic in their lake, of course, but it is the magic of

cold-spirited warriors of Tharim, the heralds of the Winter realm laugh, and laugh, and laugh. As dusk gathers, as the funeral flames catch and leap on the

eyebrows. "'Ye reckon it's time fer quotin' Berechiah?" Alisoun barked a laugh, clapped her hands on her knees, and with a great creaking and cracking,

eyebrow at Celebro, who laughed along with the others, shaking his head and apologising slightly drunkenly. But not everyone was laughing. One of the newcomers

nation claimed the territories she helped to conquer (she is said to have laughed uproariously when The League claimed Holberg from under the noses of the

Virtue's sake don't bore them. Make one joke, and time it right. Have them laughing, and they will stand a chance of recalling what you said!" Iulian Shatterspire

Before Maria could ask for more details, her Prince suddenly burst out laughing. "Oh my! Maria! Could you imagine dear Cesares face if d'Bauser actually

I don't know anyone else who has a clue, so what else can I put?" Gytha laughed and patted her colleague on the back "Well maybe he'll still be your friend

are monsters in their midst who look just like they do. Agramant himself laughs at this, apparently, and changes the subject. Agramant offers strength to

me to listen?" She asked after a few more moments thought. Zalmonah half-laughed a little awkwardly and shook her head. "Oh, it's alright Aran," she said

"Did the jewels you asked for bring you pleasure, my lady?" Gwendoline laughed lustily, "My dear Signeura, you have no idea..."

"For a time, at least, we will do well here." And then his wife was there, laughing, and embracing him, and dragging him through the forest of abandoned spears

make them both permanent enchantments and have done. Few actual magicians laugh at the joke; they have an idea of what that might cost. Two magical citadels

shouted at the local sat opposite her. His reaction startled her. He started laughing. Bitter, hollow laughter. "Oh really schlacta? Don't you know our history

whenever possible and he liked to give good value. "Ships!" Frederick barked a laugh, gesturing expansively around the docks of Siroc. "When our new school opens

and the pair shared a slightly wicked laugh which caused Michael to look up in some surprise which made them laugh even more. After the meal, when the dinner

inquisition as to why she had kept her beliefs hidden for so long she only laughed at the court and said "If we were looking to hide our devotion, we wouldn't

enough to deal with such a pathetic little beast. She laughed again, a challenging laugh, a laugh in the beaked face of danger. Then two arrows zipped past

in his palm. The Mestran mountebank had called it a thieves' lamp, and laughed, and the recollection made Claus shiver despite the warmth of the night

cradle, the wind and the storm Now is the time for a child to be born He'll laugh at the moon and he'll cry for the sun And play in the sunlight when winter

he is trying to manipulate you to get you to lower your prices... you can laugh in his face and tell him the price is unchanged. If they try to shame your

doom as his magic turned the blood in their veins to poison. The Serpent laughed to see the strong become weak at his merest touch, even as his own blood

lustre that threatened to set the stone walls alight. Drusa couldn't resist laughing at the sight, her spirits lifted by her friend's joy. The news that they

combination of disgust and unease that the twisted creature was trying to laugh. During the Winter Solstice, the rules of the wasteland - eternals of Winter

to himself under his breath. "To lose two ships to sea monsters..." He laughed out loud in spite of himself, on the edge of succumbing fully to the hysteria

some seed out of it after I slay it!" Elayne shook her head helplessly, laughing in spite of herself as she fussed over her charge. Dinah took a moment

have made their mark on the Empire. At the entrance to the arcade stands a laughing statue of former Senators Oksana Kazaku, Gant Arachma, and Drogon Morosini

her way across the sand towards the waterline, without looking back, half laughing: "Life is short Efra! Best live it while you can!" A wonderful, unsettling

me in darkness, shut out the light. Do what you want with me, Hate me and laugh at me, Darken my daytime, torture my night. Hands twisted, back broken, I'm

freed' The old man sat at the end of the table looked up at him smiling, and laugh escaping from him, 'Boy I remember when you changed your name from Elis to

people have some odd ideas about religion and so..." She tailed off. Eft laughed, and popped the last of the sweetmeats into his mouth. "We have some odd

was almost too much to bear. SADNESS. “I’m sorry!” she protested while laughing. Somehow her old friend’s disappointment that the evening was over had

crowd, inspiring a chorus of angry mutters. The captain gave a mirthless laugh. "Against what is coming, we would need all the Freeborn ships there are

you fight today So that the children of this world May live and grow and laugh and play.

can be found here The mud’s the Marcher’s own best friend Though you may laugh, its true Whilst you think mud is “filthy”, well We take a different view

pain. “No idea.” “Me neither, I've never met one.” That got his friend laughing. Durn quickly muttered the incantation then tapped the wand to the human's

Plateau. Gathered people, wild and cruel, Up, up on the Black Plateau, They’ll laugh in your face as they run you through, High up on the Black Plateau. There

to have caught it. The other Navarr were everywhere, smiling, chatting, laughing. For the last half hour Damoren had been watching with detached interest

the pouring rain that had soaked them to their skin. Beil could hear them laughing as they ran back along the trail towards the wayhouse. The old vate stared

decorated with an illustration of unsettling theatrical masks that seemed to be laughing at him. "Just as I thought." He held the letter out toward the Chief Magistrate

time later a week had passed, A laugh was heard from atop the mast, The spotter had sighted a freeborn sail, We laughed with him as we know they’d fail

inside is filled With folk from far away Travelling across the miles There to laugh and dance and smile They have found the Way. (chorus) However big, however

will fall in love with you!" They laughed together, Miju could always make her laugh. It was hard though - laughing while carrying so much weight. Worth

were laughing about something that had happened at the training square earlier in the day. The boys were kicking each other under the table, laughing conspiratorially

stirred them all together with one sharp taloned fingernail, and laughed - a sharp barking laugh like a dog. Or a wolf. Then she pushed her mask up, and the

" said the brand. "I was sorry to feel it," said the shaman. He barked a laugh suddenly. "But I am thankful that the arrow was clean, and the metal neither

the Keeper would have said. She missed Walter - he used to make everyone laugh at harvest time, putting straw in his coat and pretending to be a scarecrow

his robes Was a wand of fearsome power But his mighty staff just made me laugh Because for all the lore he knew, There's no book in his library To teach

merciless killers who impaled soldiers and civilians alike on barbed spikes and laughed as they died has been broadly debunked. There is no doubt, however, that

because you getting excommunicated is a teachable moment is it?" Severus laughed again. "Minias, they found it in their hearts to persecute an old man they've

that the ongelukkig apparently make terrible warriors. Most Sarcophan would laugh at the idea that one could conquer anything with these slow moving, slow-witted

companion. "T'int that sort of basket." the Marcher corrected him with a laugh. "It's grain stores and the like. Everyone puts spare grain and the like

will you believe. The Empire despises us. Their priests despise us. They laugh at us. They insult us time and again! When we offer them understanding, they

other guards here. But there were none. The bandit chief gave an incredulous laugh. “Just one man watching the approach? Really?” Goran shrugged, standing straight

Felipa laughed as she ran, chasing after her brother, as the pair of them raced across the grassy plain. They had never been more than a few miles outside

difficult to keep their emotions under control. When they are happy, they laugh out loud; when sad, they weep piteously. They find it almost impossible not

turns one's head just right, hear the terrible voice of the lake as she laughs at the hubris of humankind. Or so the bees say, anyway.

" "I know, I know. But people are frit. They need to keep going so they laugh and cheer and brag about sinking boats. There's no harm in it." Bill smiled

make out a few ferries gliding this way and that. Eusebio bit down on a laugh at the felicity of the situation; everything was going perfectly. He hurried

the old wizard very much, I felt sorry for him. The younger wizard made me laugh and gave me this." She touched a beautiful brooch of mithril and tempest

the midst of a desperate negotiation with a figure wearing three masks who laughs with glee when the first champions appear at the top of the tower and abandons

stories of the Great Forest and the Barrens? That seems fairer." He barked a laugh, startling a brace of birds from the brush, and held out his meaty hand for

for letting the other side score. "Caught him bloody napping more like" laughed Nanny, amused by the stiff-necked response. "Point is, it took some bottle

little like Master Jubal does when he doesn't get his tea." Mirkala laughed, and her laugh was infectious. Tears were dried and quickly forgotten. "So that's

come to harm thereby." she eventually responded. Juanita gave a sardonic laugh. "If you want me carrying your messages Jotun, you'll do me the courtesy

it's clear there has been recent fighting here. Rhababahrúns shrugs, and laughs it off as nothing to worry about. Seàrlas Lamhaich, the Overseer of the

themselves against competence and skill, giving respect to Pride earned and laughing at pomposity, false claims, and weak authority in equal measure. Generous

to take a positive outlook on life, celebrating a member’s passing with laughs and moments of their lives, instead of tears. Location: Northspires Traditions:

their doing, or repentant on hearing her tale. Instead, to her disgust, he laughed in her face, telling her that he was well aware of what had happened. Moreover

beggars and... here let me get them in. Beer, right?" The other dart players laughed, calling out rude names to their clumsy friend. The hubub of conversation

tone was as sincere as his guess. "It might not be about Sal!" Mariamne laughed despite herself. Boethus' ability to read her mood always made her smile

a moment before announcing "I reckon it must be Dawnish then." Morgause laughed so hard her goblet shook spilling wine. "Whatever makes you think that dear

them - especially those accompanying the Hounds of Glory. They literally laugh as they cut down the Druj warriors foolish enough to stand against them,

Grendel, even as they build their navy on our shores, spy on our lands and laugh at the idea of a continued peace and prosperity. The motives and Virtue of

despair. "Don't come any closer!" she threatened. Her words just made the orcs laugh louder. As the orcs moved to surround them, Gayul stood back to back with

Bregasland this season. The barbarian armies are supported by warbands of laughing golden-haired knights of elfin mien, conjured from the Fields of Glory

obvious that the Faraden really don't see any value in Vigilance. Nobody laughs. The delegation is ongoing, the priests of the Pride assembly have learned

orc foe-man made, Giant she stood there, bestriding the field!". They're laughing now. He's got them, he knows, but always leave them wanting more and that

if I'm not allowed to sing this because it's rude then why did you start laughing as soon as the lady left the tent? There are a few children's rhymes in

Autumn sun; their crimson surcoats soak up the blood of their prey. They laugh as they fight, glorying in the exhilaration of battle in a way only a few

their thoughts from showing. "Five dozen mana crystals - maybe six?" Laira laughed and backhanded the human with the back of her gauntlet. He crashed to the

interjected Eft. They both laughed. "No not wise. Wait is this heresy?" She meant it as a joke, but Eft immediately stopped laughing. "I don't know," he said

– and take precautions against it. They called it Kantor's Jest. Nobody laughs. We had only one encounter with vallornspawn husks; the precautions and

eat people's hearts and send the bodies to attack their families." Tersia laughed, Darius' fanciful stories always made her chuckle. "Yeah, and I hear it's

than you these days!" He was laughing at her. Not subtly mocking her with his words as before - now he was just laughing. In her face. Really - it was

shook his head. "It is too damn cold for snowmen!" he shouted back. Wyl laughed. "You should have bought some mittens! I told you you should have bought