chuckle
verb (used without object)
to laugh softly or amusedly, usually with satisfaction.
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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It was a sad day, on which they crowned him at Rome; and no one has chuckled so gleefully, as he on St. Peter's chair.
From Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century by Joseph Victor von Scheffel