We were laughing when we came out of the barn, the giddy laughter of disaster survivors, but Marie, who was in front, stopped abruptly.

Michael bit her lower lip to squelch her giddy laughter.

A retired professor of political economics at Moscow State University delivered a mock Marxist-Leninist lecture, to giddy laughter and applause.

The many boxes that sat atop my grammy's dresser were an incredible treasure trove that brought peals of giddy laughter from me and my sisters.

This produced in me a wonderful happiness, really near to weeping, and then some giddy laughter.

It glimmered in their eyes as they explained dishes and brought giddy laughter to guests who ate langoustines with their hands, smearing green sauce across giant rocks.

"Hey, if you need another take, let's go," I offered in a measured voice, fighting to swallow the giddy laughter in my throat.

There was no mistaking it; Lorill was full of conflicting emotion-an underlying concern covered by giddy laughter that seemed to her very much out of place.

My voice was high and strange and breathless with giddy laughter.

Later, when the tension was somewhat relieved, when their giddy laughter had subsided to pleased smiles, Tommy said, "Jack, I gotta tell you that was a first-rate piece of work.