Mirth has 1 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
| # | Sentence | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. | |
| 2. | Tinkles of sleigh bells and distant laughter, that seemed like the mirth of wood elves, came from every quarter. | |
| 3. | Their mirth made the old vault ring again. | |
| 4. | The instruments now played their loudest strains; the dancers pursued their exercise with all the enthusiasm inspired by youth, mirth, and high spirits, when a cry was heard so shrill and piercing as at once to arrest the dance and the music. |