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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Laughter

Laughter rich as woodland thunder.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Laughter and tears are meant to turn the same machinery of sensibility; one is wind-power, and the other water-power: that is all.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Laughter like a chime of bells.
—Charles Reade

Soft laughter as of light that stirs the sea
With darkling sense of dawn ere dawn may be.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Laughter soft as tears.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool.
—Old Testament

Sweet laughter in mirthfulness artlessly flowing
Like zephyrs at play through a fairy flute blowing.
—Ralph D. Williams