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And it was this which drained away as I watched Finny’s face pass through all the gradations between uproariousness and shock.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles

When the laughers had exhausted their uproariousness, he cleared his throat, and resumed.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various

The school-house was small, but the volume of clamour that issued from it would have done credit to two or three hundred children in unrestrained uproariousness.

From By the Ionian Sea Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy by Gissing, George

John endeavoured to put on a smile, in feeble sympathy with the uproariousness of Lady Mariamne's laugh—but her daughter took no such trouble.

From The Marriage of Elinor by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

Rachael and Muriel raised a mild if somewhat surprised laugh, in which Dick and Maury joined, both of them red in the face and restraining uproariousness with the most apparent difficulty.

From The Beautiful and Damned by Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott)