hysteric

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"Going Into Hysteric" Sirs: When I read the article on Japan which had been printed in your journal issued on July 14, I could not refrain from laughing.

From Time Magazine Archive

But breaks her prayer, which is vain, And raises herself again, In pale and barren pride; And casts, with the cruel glance Of her lidless eye, far and wide Hysteric radiance.

From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various

Hysteric dreams, the childishness of the mysterious, the insanity of the miraculous, are no part of that.

From The Soul of a People by Fielding, H. (Harold)

"Hysteric" tenderness also sometimes bears a considerable resemblance, superficially, to true intercostal neuralgia, in cases where the genuine disease does not exist.

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.

Hysteric sobs and cries ended Mrs. Sedley's speech—it echoed through every room in the small house, whereof the other female inmates heard every word of the colloquy.

From Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace