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The muscles and other organs used in laughing. quotations examples
It is truly melancholy to see so many minds employed in catering for the risibles and lachrymals of weak men and silly women
1843, “Habits of Reading”, in The Mother's Magazine
Our General was so tickled […] that it was some time before he could get command of his risibles sufficiently to thank Joe for what he had done.
1866, Richard Miller Devens, The pictorial book of anecdotes and incidents of the War of the Rebellion, page 237