What is "hysterically"

Usage examples of "hysterically".

She is chained in such a way as to preclude movement which might tear at the mesh or break it, thus making possible the entry of urts, which might eat at her, lowering her price, and to preclude her tearing hysterically with her hands and fingernails at her own body, bloodying herself, perhaps scarring herself, again lowering her price, in her attempt to obtain relief from the bites and itching consequent upon the infestation and depredation of the numerous, almost constantly active ship lice.

So while Red Fred and his group were hysterically splitting the scene, Captain Cozenage and his staff turned their attentions to rumors of a high-dice game going on among a pre-puberty peer-group in the tool shed of a private quay off the foot of Christopher Street.

Her decks were canted steeply to the right, and down on the debarkation level, a dozen collision alerts shrilled hysterically in my ears as the hatches on that side blew wide open on explosive bolts.

Mouthing hysterically, Gomes threatened them with his gun, calling them defeatists who had sold out to the people at the coast.

She was not about to be called hysterically girly by a moron like Josh.

When Heidi Fenstermaker discovered that Grom was regularly bedding nine of the fourteen female interns, she became hysterically jealous.

She had fought hysterically against it and Judd had asked her to have a talk with him.

He turned almost hysterically to Mme Musette, who was sitting upright in her seat, her face rigid and incandescently beautiful.

When it scented him, it would most likely crawl back into the bushes and bark hysterically at him until Stu left its territory.

The incongruity of the whole scenethe possibly naked fat man in front of him, the underwater chairs, the handsomely printed menus, the formal clothes and tinfoil hats of the diners on the other rafts, the prospect of eating poisonous food with the finest spices and saucesmade him want to giggle hysterically.

VIPs, the young girl in the uniform of a Trans America ticket agent was sobbing hysterically.

I sternly repeated as I sent cut after cut on her wriggling plunging backside, till she could no longer endure the pain, and half hysterically raised her head and opened her mouth.

When the modiste had reminded him hysterically that the Season was about to begin and her seamstresses were all working night and day, Stephen had politely asked her to do the best she could.

The movement startled a large gray jay who had been pulling hairs out of my head, and he shot up into a nearby pine tree, screeching hysterically.

People had staggered back as Hooves had come at them, bewildered and hysterically barking his head off.