A sudden outburst of temper, often used to describe female anger at something trivial.
1At this Willy burst out into an hysterical fit of crying and sobbing.
2This unnatural gaiety ended, I fancy, in an hysterical fit.
3The Duchess went into a helpless, half- hysterical fit of laughter.
4In the midst of her anguish, Hortense heard, and the hysterical fit came on again.
5A hysterical fit of sobbing was the only reply.
6When the news reached Les Peuples, Jeanne had a hysterical fit which lasted several hours.
7In an hysterical fit, therefore, she made a clean breast of the story to her husband.
8Her fingers, I noted, were clutched and looked fidgety, for her, the equivalent of a hysterical fit.
9Pietro Aretino died in the midst of a hysterical fit of laughter that apparently turned into an apoplectic stroke.
10I had a long, hysterical fit of weeping when I got to my room: the sorceries of Bartram-Haugh were enveloping.
11Her hysterical fit was now quite over, but pale cheeks and a trembling exhausted frame told eloquently of her recent sufferings.
12She stifled it only by crushing her face into the pillow until the hysterical fit had passed, and she lay like one dead.
13Then, as she remembered what she had read, she burst into a hysterical fit of laughing and crying together, and whispered to herself:
14But Frank's reasoning did not console his wife, whose hysterical fit was succeeded by a racking headache, which by night was almost unbearable.
15She fell back in bed in an hysterical fit, sobbing loudly and huddling herself beneath the coverlet, as though to ward off some danger.
16By-and-by Severne started up and began to rave and tear about the room, cursing his hard fate, and ended in a kind of hysterical fit.
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