“That at the ripe old age of a quarter-century the play still crackles with cachinnation is a hopeful sign.”

“Then, look at the baby, when it has turned into a little boy or girl, and come up in some degree to the cachinnation.”

“Never did a General and his Chief-of-Staff, in a more unseemly state of cachinnation, ride along a picket-line.”

“Instead, however, of their laughter lessening, the cachinnations became so violent that I began to feel seriously alarmed.”