What is "hysterical"

Usage examples of "hysterical".

There was reported the case of an hysterical female who had convulsions and mania, alternating with anuria of a peculiar nature and lasting seven days.

There were few who had not heard the explanation Bedell had given Kathy only a little while since, but they had that hysterical terror of the abnormal which made their ancestors kill witches in the past ages.

I was moving rapidly in the same direction, and narrowly avoided a collision, as Ralston Bogues stepped through the door, just in time to catch his hysterical wife.

Jealousy, envy, fear of losing him, fear of never having had him, apprehension over the differences in their cultures, the differences in their experience and feelings, the suddenly real threat of Buhl Mining versus claims 1014-15, all contrived to generate the hysterical scream.

The window curtains were blowing in the wind, and the clouds above the swamp were as black as soot, heat lightning ballooning inside them, and I could smell a trash fire in a coulee and hear the hysterical shrieking sound of a nutria calling to its mate.

The others were dazed at first, but as remembrance came back to them they cried and sobbed in a hysterical manner.

She was sorry for Myra Deyre for she realized how much real unhappiness and misery lay behind these hysterical outbursts.

But that which to us has passed to the condition of incontestable proof, is the prevalence of uterine troubles, of enervation among the married, hysterical symptoms which are met with in the conjugal relation as often as among young virgins, arising from the vicious habits of the husbands in their conjugal intercourse.

She had thought the woman strident and hysterical and thoughtless for persisting in her plans for the next day in face of her own faint, barely acquiescent smiles, and a poor, feckless, fashionless housewife for thrusting those unwanted saucepans on the cook.

He was cried and exclaimed over by the hysterical ladies, and scolded for a bittie fule by the sergeant.

That night, Sharpe again became hysterical, this time in the presence of Betty Gow and other servants, swearing the police would not take her away and that she would answer no more questions.

At this I burst into a fit of hysterical laughter, and had to sit down in an arm-chair till it was over.

Tell me now, and do not try my patience further: Is this Keak a tall and thin elf who is given to hysterical laughter?

His laugh bounced toward hysterical and had Laine grateful for the customers crowded into the store.

Mom says, walking into the living room with a knowing, motherlike expression that throws the audience into gales of hysterical laughter.