My first impulse, after amazement had a little subsided, was to laugh immoderately; in this I was joined by Stubbes, who, feeling that his mirth was participated in, gave full vent to his risibility.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
Perhaps the person who thus excited a transient emotion of risibility was a nobleman.
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft
Since 1892 Mr. Pain's work has fallen away, probably only for a time; for Punch has proved well-nigh irresistible to every genuine humorist who is anxious to bring his faculty to bear on the risibility of the English public.
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann