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1596 Raigne of Edward III sig. A4 See how occasion laughes me in the face. View more context for this quotation]

1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures 24 If shee fleere, and laugh in a mans face.

1725 M. Davys Lady's Tale in Wks. II. 127 He came forward, and made up to my Mother to salute her, which he did with such an awkard Air, that had not a little good Manners stood close at my Elbow, I had laugh'd in his Face.

1782 Pennsylvania Gaz. 10 Apr. As the French fleet lay just at that time before Fort Royal Bay, the moment he came out, they would retire into the Bay and laugh in his face.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) ii. 13 Rebecca laughed in her face, with a horrid sarcastic demoniacal laughter, that almost sent the schoolmistress into fits.

1902 J. Conrad Heart of Darkness iii I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces so full of stupid importance.

1943 A. Rand Fountainhead ii. iv. 256 She sat there, looking up at him, laughing deliberately in his face, laughing ungraciously and not gaily.

2003 R. Lacey Street Bible 85 Because you've given his enemies so much ammunition, because they're laughing in his face, he'll punish you more.