hysterical fit

While predicting the prophecy, he often goes into hysterical fits.

Then he broke into an hysterical fit of weeping.

This caused more hilarity and we ended in hysterical fits.

She is subject to hysterical fits if exposed to upsetting conditions."

And after Marimme's hysterical fit of the night before when the news was broken to her, they believed this readily.

Reese had no inclination to deal with another of Rebecca Ann's hysterical fits.

"Well, a little while ago, she threw an hysterical fit in Mrs. Carr's office.

She hands him a pair of dueling pistols, then breaks down in a hysterical fit of laughter.

What all versions share however, is that the effects are always preceded by hysterical fits of laughter, as well as a frozen grin.

(The women are the usual long-suffering, silent partners who know too much and occasionally erupt in hysterical fits.)

She stood in front of the door, staring at the jamb, an all-out hysterical fit of impatience threatening perilously close.

She is spunky, curt, authoritarian, hard-charging and susceptible to having hysterical fits when she is under stress.

Her mother experienced paranoid tendencies from previous tragedies in her life, and when Ann Jr. began to experience hysterical fits, her symptoms verged on psychotic.

You enjoyed the unflappable grannies who knitted log-cabin quilts, as well as the Vegas pros who machine-gunned the audience into hysterical fits.

For instance, "afflicted" girls would throw themselves on the ground in hysterical fits, and when the examinant moved their body the afflicted individuals would cry out in pain.

"Mr. Ingram deeply missed his wife and daughter, and since May was subject to hysterical fits, he was most worried that she would not be suitably cared for.

She cautions two pieces of it are quite enough and that one should be prepared for hysterical fits of laughter and wild floods of thoughts on "many simultaneous planes."

His vanity causes him to throw hysterical fits when Sophie disturbs his bathroom potions, causing his hair to go the wrong colour, or when she accidentailly ruins his clothes.

Herzl's own presentation of the misery of his marriage to Julie Naschauer - his descriptions of her hysterical fits that left him no peace, her undisciplined spending - has been the accepted version.

The record sounded satisfactorily complete; he went on with growing confidence to tell all the rest of the story truthfully, even to his own hysterical fit of temper in the mews, of which he was not proud.

She bit and chewed on her fingers and had hysterical fits in front of mirrors, and to keep her from doing this, Van'nedia put a steel mask over Kharla's face, only to be removed when eating.

Thus, he is "not going to have a hysterical fit because of NATO's expansion" (plays well here) but talks vaguely of a "new security system," as if Russia were threatened by the West (plays well at home).

Presently the Mole assisted him to rise and placed him in a chair, where he sat collapsed and shrunken into himself, his body shaken by a violent shivering, passing in time into an hysterical fit of dry sobbing.

Though Donna Elvira is prone to hysterical fits and obsessions over Giovanni, Ms. Keller sees her as a vulnerable and sympathetic character, qualities that came through in Ms. Goerke's wrenching portrayal.

Fan's next proceeding gave her friend another surprise, for, being rather ashamed of herself, very much relieved, and quite at a loss what to say, she took refuge in an hysterical fit of tears, which changed Polly's anger into tenderness at once.