Historical Examples

• "Vicar has his butter fra Brown's by rights," said the insuppressible servant-woman.

  The Rainbow

  D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

• Kid was a witty man, usually overflowing with innocent mirth; even in sight of the gallows his humor was insuppressible.

  Sketches of the Covenanters

  J. C. McFeeters

• The insuppressible alertness and enterprise of his own mind tells upon his portrayal of these intense moments.

  Robert Browning

  C. H. Herford

• Perhaps some men so die—I do not know; it were better than to live, and to bore their friends with the insuppressible.

  Thomas Wingfold, Curate

  George MacDonald

• At that, in an insuppressible gush of happiness I laughed out with him, like a flageolet in a concourse of bassoons.

  Memoirs of a Midget

  Walter de la Mare