horselaugh

It had to be a joke, a big cosmic horselaugh.

Behind him Lafayette made a sound that sounded suspiciously like a horselaugh.

The stallion emitted the longest horselaugh Moonshine had ever heard.

The very phrase draws a horselaugh from embittered bureaucrats and planners.

Signe stuck out her tongue, then turned her back, ignoring his horselaugh.

"Think what a horselaugh it will be on me when the court learns I've taken up with a bloody 'nun.' "

Cristano delivered the last line with a horselaugh and a slap on the knee.

Eli let loose another horselaugh.

Eugenie Scott, who also appeared in the film, was quoted to say she and fellow supporters of evolution were enjoying "a horselaugh" over the episode.

He glanced sidelong at her, perking his ears forward, and she knew he was giving her the horselaugh inside.

Is that Bachmann channeling Hillary Clinton's horselaugh from the last campaign?

"Now you listen to me and see if I don't argue like some fool Greek sophist-shame Gorgidas isn't here to give me the horselaugh."

He's making all this up, putting me on, and when I leave he'll have a great big horselaugh, Kevin thought, knowing Pop Merrill was doing nothing of the sort.

After that pious excuse generated a global horselaugh at the world's least democratic group, Arab leaders decided to become players by conferring provisional regional legitimacy on the coalition's choice.

Shanks was dumb enough to get mad and try to start an argument with Cuyler Ditson, and Raymond Plehn gave him the horselaugh.

Jessie noticed she was holding the Lewis novel upside down and made haste to rectify that situation before Maddy happened by and gave her a big, silent horselaugh.

His relations with women have been more than a little affected by his enthusiastic seduction, at age 11, by his stepmother, and by his father's response when he caught the lovers: a giant horselaugh.

That Pollyannan judgment will draw a horselaugh from my confreres in the PPSC, a hoot from White House spinmeisters, a harrumph from his primary opponents and a sardonic chuckle from Dole himself.

He made a small adjustment, but it was still wrong, and he growled inwardly in frustration as the ghost of Roger III and all those generations of MacClintock history fanatics enjoyed a hearty horselaugh at his expense.

New York is the capital of the world not because of its wealth and influence, but because it lives the unspoken universal truth that life is hard, and knowing that turns small victories into world-class triumphs - to be followed by a cosmic horselaugh.

"So you thought that you could trespass upon our domain, oh foolish person," and his followers all gave a loud horselaugh and reared up on their hind legs, prancing close to Jam who feared that they might trample him with their hoofs.

Think, sure, think-that was easy to say, and sometimes itwas even easy even to do . . . but what good was thinking whenall it got you from the Neanderthals who ran the world was a horselaugh, or even worse, a thank-you letter?

For years, Martin Gardner - who used H. L. Mencken's line "One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms" as the epigraph for "Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus" - has been showing us that the best way to deflate pseudoscience is a combination of the horselaugh and the syllogism.