They heard his small, known, self-mocking laugh.

Chetwin gave a sharp, self-mocking little laugh.

"I'm an elder statesman now," he told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, with what sounded like a self-mocking laugh.

Derec snorted, which was about as close to a self-mocking laugh as he could muster at the moment.

She paused, and then added with a self-mocking laugh, "I have a ways to go in every other department, too - that's pretty obvious."

Later, though, when they were alone, Peter finally allowed himself a rueful, self-mocking laugh.

She gives a little self-mocking laugh.

No,' the brief self-mocking laugh seemed to tear at this throat, 'I want far more than that.

He laughed, a dry, gentle, self-mocking laugh.

He allowed himself a self-mocking laugh.