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Definition of Laughingstocks
1. laughingstock [n] - See also: laughingstock
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laughingstocks
Literary usage of Laughingstocks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Thomas Hardy Dictionary: The Characters and Scenes of the Novels and Poems by F. Outwin Saxelby (1911)
"Time's laughingstocks and Other Verses. By Thomas Hardy. 1909. Macmillan & Co.
Crown 8vo. Contains:—Time's laughingstocks (fifteen reprinted pieces). ..."
2. Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses by Thomas Hardy (1917)
"THE DYNASTS, PART III., AND TIME'S laughingstocks. THE DYNASTS. A Drama. ...
TIME'S laughingstocks, and Other Verses. Crown 8vo. 53. 6d. net. ..."
3. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1911)
"Time's laughingstocks, and other verses. D. x, 20Sp. »$1.50. (D.) '09. Macmillan.
W10-64 Phelps, W: L. Thomas Hardy. (In "Essays on modern novelists," p. ..."
4. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians by Charles Rollin (1830)
"ßo many laughingstocks, with which they sported perpetually. They appeared like
so many shadows, rather than like men : speech being almost the only A. ..."
5. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1910)
"8°. One of 550 copies printed. Hardy (Thomas). Time's laughingstocks, and other
verses. London: Macmillan and Co., 1909. x, 207 (i) p. 12'. Horn (Kurt). ..."
6. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1885)
"... and with his hands Grasps it, the sport of empty hope, so ye, . '5° Deceived,
are hoping for a shadow vain Of guerdon ! Ah ! ye silent laughingstocks, ..."
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