Sentences with phrase «chortled before»

Not exact matches

- the earth does crack, the ground yawns wide before you, and a moment of hope and freedom and reprieve bursts in your heart, before you hear a rumbling chortle pour forth from the secret, chthonic places of the deep, and you realise even the bowels of the planet have come to void their stinking mirth all over your shoes.

Now, before you go imagining some chortling along the lines of one rakish Stuart Little (or was he a mouse?)

But before you can even finish that chortle, «NOT BASED ON» is yanked from the screen, leaving you with only «THIS IS A TRUE STORY.»

The drollery is in the detail, which sometimes comes so fast it's gone before you have time to chortle.