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The groans of the sufferers mingled with the hiss of escaping ketchup. Genevieve May was in hysterics from the minute the first high-powered gun was fired. She kept screaming for everyone to keep cool. And at last, when they got some kind of order, she went into a perfectly new fit because her Frenchman was missing. She kept it up till they found the poor man.
Miss Brandon bowed stiffly, and the courtier saw, with secret rage, that the country beauty was not easily appeased, even by an apology from Lord Mauleverer. "I have seen the time," thought he, "when young unmarried ladies would have deemed an affront from me an honour! They would have gone into hysterics at an apology!"
What on earth could have made her do it?" "Don't ask me," said Nicky, "what makes her do things." "It looks," Drayton meditated, "as if she didn't trust me. I'm afraid she's dished us. God knows whether we can ever get it back!" Desmond had a fit of hysterics when she realized how clever she had been. Desmond's baby was born late in November of that year, and it died when it was two weeks old.
Mrs Snell boxed your ears till your eyes shot stars, like rockets. 4th. You got an all-fired licking from old Colonel Jephunny, till he made a mulatto of you, and you was half black and half white. 5th. You got kissed and pysoned by that great big emancipated she-nigger wench. 6th. You have killed your mother's canary bird, and she has jawed you till she went into hysterics. 7th.
"Then I think you are very noble," said Maud, "and I will help you all I can; but you must not expect poor Cartery to appear too. That is more than can be endured. She has rushed into the house, and is probably in hysterics. Yes, I am sure she is, for Bertha has disappeared too, and Bertha is her devoted slave." "Never mind about Miss Carter now. Let us attend to our duties. I will manage Irene.
Sitting up in bed, Vava listened, hardly able to believe her ears, for it was Eva's laugh. 'Stella, she said in solemn tones to her sister, 'do you hear Eva laughing? 'Yes, said Stella shortly; but the little word said a good deal. 'Do you think she's in hysterics? asked Vava. 'No, I do not; she seems very cheerful, replied Stella.
For the widow De Wichehalse, Albert's mother, had not been content with sealing the doom of this poor maiden, but in that highly excited state, which was to be expected, hurried into the house, to beard the worthy baron in his den. There she found him; and, although he said and did all sympathy, the strain of parental feelings could not yield without "hysterics."
Bloss, with a proper approximation to hysterics; ‘I think the house is on fire, or else there’s thieves in it. I have heard the most dreadful noises!’ ‘The devil you have!’ shouted Gobler again, bouncing back into his den, in happy imitation of the aforesaid dragon, and returning immediately with a lighted candle. ‘Why, what’s this? Wisbottle! Tomkins! O’Bleary! Agnes!
Mucklewrath, who had begun to recover from her hysterics, whimpered forth, 'She wadna say naething against what the minister proposed; he was e'en ower gude for his trade, and she hoped to see him wi' a dainty decent bishop's gown on his back; a comelier sight than your Geneva cloaks and bands, I wis.
"I don't admit that she did run away in the sense of flight. If she were frightened at this thing if she saw it she may have run out of the door in hysterics or in a panic of terror. But she the perpetrator! Never!" "Never!" echoed Mrs. Reeves. "The poor child! If she did come out here and saw this awful sight why, I think it would unhinge her mind!" "Who is Miss Van Allen?" asked Fenn.
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