Hysterics

Examples

• Is there a form of hysterics that bursts into words instead of tears? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He was now laughing himself almost into hysterics at something Mr. Dick said to him at one of the windows. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Marie rose and threw herself out of the apartment into her own, when she fell into violent hysterics. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Marianne gave a violent start, fixed her eyes upon Elinor, saw her turning pale, and fell back in her chair in hysterics. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• I attribute my being still able to hold the curtain in the right position for looking and listening, entirely to suppressed hysterics. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• When shewn the body, she fell into violent hysterics, and kept her bed for several days. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• THEN she fell into hysterics again, and he was so frightened that he would send for Mr. Donavan, and Mr. Donavan found the house in all this uproar. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• My mother was in hysterics, and though I endeavoured to give her every assistance in my power, I am afraid I did not do so much as I might have done! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• There, you would suppose, was subject-matter for hysterics. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She esteemed him hideously plain, and used to profess herself frightened almost into hysterics at the sound of his step or voice. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• At this proposition, the hysterics came on with redoubled violence. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The hysterics called up Peggotty. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Reproaches and hysterics, and all that sort of thing, answered Mildmay. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I'll buy you quarts if you want it, but for heaven's sake don't have hysterics, for I've brought Jack Scott home to dinner, and. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Another, who had gone that deadly colour, could never have come round without either fainting or hysterics. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

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