hysterics
Example Sentences
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Hysterics, of course, supply what theatre demands—words driven by emotions.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 23, 2015
New Yorker sportswriter John Tunis made a compelling argument in his 1928 book $port$: Heroics and Hysterics that America’s sporting institutions were powered by something he called The Great Sports Myth.
From The Guardian • Jun. 19, 2015
Hysterics of course, if not a sick headache.
From Tracy Park by Holmes, Mary Jane
Hysterics began again: she fell on the floor, sobbing and screaming.
From The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Hysterics was put to a son of Bedlamite, "but the result of the fifth cross is not as yet, I believe, more satisfactory than that of the fourth."
From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Darwin, Charles
