Lexicographical Neighbors of Risibilities
Literary usage of Risibilities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Flowers of Literature: Consisting of Selections from History, Biography by William Oxberry (1824)
"... LEGAL risibilities. SHERIDAN ON OATH. IN the trial of the Earl of Thanet, Mr.
Fergusson, and others, for an attempt to rescue O'Connor, at Maidstone ..."
2. Americanisms: The English of the New World by Maximilian Schele De Vere (1872)
"risibilities, in the plural form, are only heard in America. " had hard work to
keep down my risibilities." (Rev. ..."
3. Webster's Elementary-school Dictionary: Abridged from Webster's New by Noah Webster (1914)
"risibilities (sense 2). risk (risk), n. Hazard ; peril ; exposure to loss or injury.
— Syn. See DANGER. — r. /. 1. To expose to risk ; hazard. 2. ..."
4. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1867)
"We are now able to detect the giggle, as of feminine cousins, in the grain whose
risibilities are touched by the wind. We can now cheer even the dull stone ..."
5. The Flowers of Literature: Consisting of Selections from History, Biography by William Oxberry (1824)
"... LEGAL risibilities. SHERIDAN ON OATH. IN the trial of the Earl of Thanet, Mr.
Fergusson, and others, for an attempt to rescue O'Connor, at Maidstone ..."
6. Americanisms: The English of the New World by Maximilian Schele De Vere (1872)
"risibilities, in the plural form, are only heard in America. " had hard work to
keep down my risibilities." (Rev. ..."
7. Webster's Elementary-school Dictionary: Abridged from Webster's New by Noah Webster (1914)
"risibilities (sense 2). risk (risk), n. Hazard ; peril ; exposure to loss or injury.
— Syn. See DANGER. — r. /. 1. To expose to risk ; hazard. 2. ..."
8. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1867)
"We are now able to detect the giggle, as of feminine cousins, in the grain whose
risibilities are touched by the wind. We can now cheer even the dull stone ..."
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