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  • There was a faint note of hysteria in his mother's voice.†   (source)
  • Fighting down her hysteria, Meg took Charles's other arm and held it tightly.†   (source)
  • Robert Langdon had little doubt that the chaos and hysteria coursing through St. Peter's Square at this very instant exceeded anything Vatican Hill had ever witnessed.†   (source)
  • Hysteria ripples through the crowd.†   (source)
  • If he did anything like that, I might have some doubt; I might rethink the whole this-is-an-alien-headfake thing and conclude I am suffering from paranoia and battle-induced hysteria.†   (source)
  • Their goal is to harm innocent civilians, Silver and Red, to incite fear and hysteria.†   (source)
  • Thomas screamed, a hysteria rising up in him.†   (source)
  • Cinder's auditory interface couldn't protect her from the shrill memory, even as Peony's voice cracked and she dissolved into hysteria.†   (source)
  • He went on scrambling and the laughter rose to a gale of hysteria.†   (source)
  • A woman, her voice edged with hysteria, said, "You heard, you heard, but if they were all dead, how could anyone know for sure?"†   (source)
  • The thought sent me into an even deeper hysteria.†   (source)
  • Her gust of laughter had a self-propelling recklessness I knew all too well from wild nights with Boris, an edge of giddiness and hysteria that I associated (in myself, anyway) with having narrowly missed death.†   (source)
  • Hysteria, thought Flora.†   (source)
  • Dart's voice edged a shade closer to hysteria.†   (source)
  • Mass hysteria, high-speed chases, group mind-wipes.†   (source)
  • The aftermath of tears, near-hysteria, and nervous stomach.†   (source)
  • I choked back the hysteria that threatened to explode, but a small giggle managed to get out despite my efforts.†   (source)
  • And just the sound of the word would send us off into quiet hysteria, while we calmly sipped our tea.†   (source)
  • When the Gestapo came to the barn where the woman was hidden, not the baby but the mother began to shriek with hysteria.†   (source)
  • Like mass hysteria Or a tune that gets into your head that you keep on humming all day until you spread it to someone else.†   (source)
  • These stats have been used to create a hysteria against black and Latino youth.†   (source)
  • It wasn't until a second noise became audible in the pulse of the powerful sirens that we thought to effect a pause in our little episode of decorous hysteria.†   (source)
  • Responsibility, not hysteria.†   (source)
  • There was a tinge of hysteria in his voice.†   (source)
  • Guy always treats me like I'm on the verge of hysteria; he'll talk to Rand when I'm right there, totally ignore me, like I need my husband to explain things to little dumb me.†   (source)
  • She had heard the hysteria edging his voice.†   (source)
  • Hatsue settled into missing her husband and learned the art of waiting over an extended period of time—a deliberately controlled hysteria that was something like what Ishmael Chambers felt watching her in the courtroom.†   (source)
  • Some speculate the town suffered from mass hysteria or hallucinations or an unknown infection taken through food or water.†   (source)
  • Laughter so easily turns to hysteria for imaginative children.†   (source)
  • She came upon an ancient book in the house called Devils, Drugs, and Doctors and was frightened to mute hysteria by pictures of medieval labor chairs, delivery instruments, and the information that women were sometimes thrown repeatedly against walls to induce birth.†   (source)
  • There were many theories: haze in the air from pollution, a temperature drop in the lower atmosphere, aliens, or perhaps another sewer-gas leak causing mass hysteria.†   (source)
  • It was a normal enough reaction, and he did not try to block it but, rather, held her firmly and let the hysteria run its course.†   (source)
  • I couldn't keep the hysteria from my voice.†   (source)
  • King Orrin swore violently, and Eragon detected a hint of hysteria in his voice.†   (source)
  • But then, in the earliest hours of that morning in November, a Sunday morning, certain foreign sounds impinged on the normal nightly Holcomb noises-on the keening hysteria of coyotes, the dry scrape of scuttling tumbleweed, the racing, receding wail of locomotive whistles.†   (source)
  • Both men left me alone at the mercy of my hysteria.†   (source)
  • Ida would reduce them to a kind of speechless hysteria and God knew what his father would say under the impression that he was putting the dark girl at her ease.†   (source)
  • Seeing the look of hysteria enter her friend's eyes, Sa' hastened to say in smooth, confident tones, "We must be brave and face them.†   (source)
  • And all about lay the tents, the breathing crowds, the anxious freaks, a Witch iced with hysteria, Jim hidden to be found, an ancient mummy still seated glowing with blue fire in his electric chair, and a merry-go-round waiting for the show to cease, the crowd to go, and the carnival to have its way with boys and janitor trapped if possible, and alone.†   (source)
  • Their escape came at a time of hysteria about the underground and was greeted with blaring newspaper headlines.†   (source)
  • There were outbreaks of hysteria and blows with the truncheons.†   (source)
  • Her voice breaks a little, a note of hysteria creeping in.†   (source)
  • Hysteria had been building on the outside and the inside as to where she would serve her short sentence, and what would happen to her.†   (source)
  • For new officers, there's almost hysteria.†   (source)
  • And it's called religious hysteria.†   (source)
  • He was off to Florida's Hialeah Racetrack, where he was greeted with near hysteria, generating a bigger stir than any Florida visitor save President Roosevelt.†   (source)
  • "Avert your eyes!" she says in near hysteria, trying desperately to cover herself with the bit of lace and cloth.†   (source)
  • "Honey," my mother said, trying to be calm, but there was that crazy edge creeping into her voice, the family hysteria swelling to full force.†   (source)
  • And for the first time I could remember, mass hysteria began in our commune.†   (source)
  • And the most recent message hit a note of near hysteria.†   (source)
  • That, plus the fact that her earlobe was sore from the operation she had performed on herself, had her near hysteria.†   (source)
  • I'm out of breath and on the verge of hysteria when we find the office.†   (source)
  • In the middle of our fit of hysteria, the flap to the door of our tent was pulled aside by an inquisitive head, and Hans Hands entered.†   (source)
  • I ask, trying to control the near hysteria in my voice.†   (source)
  • He was what was important right now, not me, and not my need for hysteria.†   (source)
  • It is not a language that promotes hysteria.†   (source)
  • Maybe he sensed it was Negli's talking, some crazy hysteria, or that I just needed to feel close.†   (source)
  • And though I firmly believed the entire coast to be impervious to a wave of hysteria, I did not intend to risk notice of any kind.†   (source)
  • Despite his more frivolous side, Rostipov had caused an uproar in scientific circles because he spent his free time curing hysteria with magic wands and hypnotic trances.†   (source)
  • He whirled around upon Yossarian in near hysteria.†   (source)
  • She feels hysteria rising and edges toward the large TV and stereo console cabinet near the hallway, leaning against it for balance.†   (source)
  • He kept slipping and getting up, and slipping and getting up, and all the while the audience had gone wild with laughter and hysteria.†   (source)
  • Was it simply the hysteria of a man who, aware deep down of his inaptitude for love, felt the self-deluding need to simulate it?†   (source)
  • But secretly she agreed with Dr. Ghosh, the internal medicine physician at Missing, that St. Teresa's famous visions and ecstasies were probably nothing but forms of hysteria.†   (source)
  • "Be reasonable, Isabelle," Alec pointed out, in that superior big-brother tone that seemed to imply that while she, Isabelle, might be prone to hysteria, he, Alec, was always perfectly calm.†   (source)
  • Doing her best to control her rising hysteria, she demanded to know what was going on with her son.†   (source)
  • He could only pray that the citizens, in their loving hysteria, would protect the boys.†   (source)
  • A lot of us have traded in our beliefs for bitterness and cynicism, or for a heavy package of despair, or even a quivering portion of hysteria.†   (source)
  • Shouldn't he, for his own personal safety, have recognized my hysteria, my "danger potential"?†   (source)
  • I only hope he does not notice that my laughter is laced with something not too far from hysteria.†   (source)
  • Bourne slowly rose to his feet, his legs in agony, every nerve in his body frayed, the edge of hysteria not far away.†   (source)
  • Aniseed for hysteria.†   (source)
  • Once shown these things, Amos is so overcome with joy and awe that he cycles between laughter and weeping, and to the eyes of the others in the room—a researcher named Janice, another named Vincent—he seems to be seized by an alarming hysteria.†   (source)
  • She sensed a mood of quiet hysteria and self-mockery in that club, and she fled from it, refusing to see any possible connection with her own existence.†   (source)
  • Rosalind came in abruptly, as near to hysteria as I had known her.†   (source)
  • "I'm inclined to believe that that's a rumor created by public hysteria," said Dr. Ferris dryly.†   (source)
  • HONEY (Hysteria) WHAT?†   (source)
  • It was faint but unmistakable as it seeped through the paneled walls, a note of surprise that escalated a moment later to pitched hysteria before going silent.†   (source)
  • He was becoming extraordinarily calm, and I feared his calm as it settled over him more than I feared his hysteria.†   (source)
  • He did hear cheering as he came over the lip, now clear of clouds, but it was not the sustained hysteria that he had expected.†   (source)
  • And in a loud voice edged with hysteria, he sang: "M-m-mine eyes have seen the glory of the… the mighty Viking lords, they are trampling out the vineyards where the grapes of wrath are stored.†   (source)
  • Size No Protection from Mass Hysteria†   (source)
  • But then other refugees came running down the second pass, Bremen's Run, fleeing the open town of Termalaine in their hysteria when they saw the cities across the way put to the torch.†   (source)
  • He had smelled out the shape of Lee's army in all the rumors and bar talk and newspapers and hysteria he had drifted through all over eastern Pennsylvania, and on that day he was perhaps the only man alive who knew the positions of both armies.†   (source)
  • The noise dies abruptly, and all we hear is ALAN yelling in hysteria as he collapses on the ground--stabbing at his own eyes with the invisible pick.†   (source)
  • Which is all very well, except that (He continues with tight hysteria, under control.†   (source)
  • He did this without any conscious thought except that it was necessary to slap the hysteria out of Jennings in order to locate Dan Gunn.†   (source)
  • Oedipa took off her badge, put it in an ashtray and said, quietly, trying not to suggest hysteria, "Look, you have to help me.†   (source)
  • And then I begun to believe it little by little, and I saw these closed vans going down the street toward the west, and then I believed it and cried and came into hysteria also.†   (source)
  • He knows we are going long before the suitcases come out, and he paces and worries and whines and goes into a state of mild hysteria, old as he is.†   (source)
  • The matron belonged to a fundamentalist Protestant sect presided over by two women preachers who practiced faith healing in services in which hysteria ran high.†   (source)
  • He came to the flat in the afternoon, and he was wild, close to hysteria, possessed by all the African terror of strange Africans.†   (source)
  • Or if she got away, they would claim she was suffering from hysteria.†   (source)
  • For a little while after their prayer, in relief, Mary had talked quite volubly of matters largely irrelevant to the event; she had even made little jokes and had even laughed at them, without more than a small undertone of hysteria; and in all this, Hannah had thought it best (and, for that matter, the only thing possible), to follow suit; but that soon faded away; nor was it to return; now they merely sat in quietness, each on her side of the kitchen table, their eyes cast away from…†   (source)
  • Mornings of crisis and near hysteria trying to get lunches packed, hair combed, coats and shoes found, everyone to school or Child Care on time, the baby ready for transportation.†   (source)
  • Sharing the fears of his astonished friends in the Senate that hysteria and well-financed opposition might insure his defeat which in turn would be interpreted as a mandate for war, he nevertheless insisted in his letter to the Governor that he had "no desire to represent the people of Nebraska if my official conduct is contrary to their wishes."†   (source)
  • She's got the detailed picture of the murder locked up in her hysteria.†   (source)
  • Tears of hysteria would have shocked him, ruined his vision of her.†   (source)
  • cried, laughed, and manifested the chaotic abandonment of hysteria.   (source)
  • ...there was a species of mad hilarity in his eyes--an evidently restrained hysteria in his whole demeanour.   (source)
  • Psycho-analysis, as every one knows, is primarily a method of understanding hysteria and certain forms of insanity...; but it has been found that there is much in the lives of ordinary men and women which bears a humiliating resemblance to the delusions of the insane.   (source)
  • I mastered the rising hysteria, lifted up my head, and took a firm stand on the stool.   (source)
  • We need a vaccination to protect against mass hysteria.
  • The worst legislation is passed when the populace has been whpped into hysteria.
  • They try to portray my rightful concern as hysteria.
  • They link it to hysteria and neurasthenia.†   (source)
  • And then I cross some line into hysteria and there's a needle in my arm and the world slips away.†   (source)
  • I have to suppress hysteria if I'm going to help him.†   (source)
  • The thought brought on a round of hysteria which frightened Edward more than the weeping.†   (source)
  • I simply fix my eyes on a point far in the distance and pretend there is no audience, no hysteria.†   (source)
  • There was an ice-skim of hysteria on her voice.†   (source)
  • I was left on the other side in hysteria.†   (source)
  • Dart felt light-headed, close to hysteria.†   (source)
  • And felt the sharpest edge of what might have been hysteria dulling into perplexity.†   (source)
  • My voice had grown higher, a note of hysteria beginning to rise in it.†   (source)
  • The hysteria surrounding bad mothers made a fair trial for Marsha Colbey very difficult.†   (source)
  • Despite Jasper, the hysteria bubbled up in my voice.†   (source)
  • Not a damn, I decided, and opened the flood gates for hysteria.†   (source)
  • I was sure he wouldn't notice the faint hint of hysteria.†   (source)
  • I felt hysteria rising and knew I was gonna blow.†   (source)
  • The moment had passed; the stalls returned to their hysteria.†   (source)
  • Further than this, I am aware that I live under a cloud of international hysteria.†   (source)
  • Yes, the voice is excessive with a little tickle of hysteria in the upper register.†   (source)
  • The girl's crying became a scream of pitched hysteria.†   (source)
  • Hysteria caused by magic seeping into Midgard.†   (source)
  • My voice was edging toward hysteria, though I had enough control to keep it low.†   (source)
  • "A mere mild case of hysteria," the pock-marked man said as they pushed him away.†   (source)
  • I'll never do it again," Gooch said, nearing hysteria.†   (source)
  • A woman shrieked suddenly, with the demanding petulance of hysteria, "What are we going to do?"†   (source)
  • Whether you meant to or not, you fanned the flames of anti-Communist hysteria with your article.†   (source)
  • 'Oh, God,' cried Marie her eyes wide, her voice on the edge of hysteria.†   (source)
  • One word snapped us back from the edge of hysteria.†   (source)
  • The salesclerk was transfixed, his panic suspended in silent hysteria.†   (source)
  • Oh, c'mon," I said, an edge of hysteria in my voice.†   (source)
  • Trying to keep the hysteria out of my voice, I said, "I need an ambulance.†   (source)
  • 'Oh, my God!' he wailed, and all his practical composure went up in hysteria.†   (source)
  • There was a sound of submerged hysteria in the whispers.†   (source)
  • Then the words came, pleas shouted in hysteria.†   (source)
  • The minutes passed, hysteria ran its course and the outlines of reality came back into focus.†   (source)
  • "A case of hysteria," the pock-marked man said quietly.†   (source)
  • I choked on the hot air, my chest throbbing from my fit of morbid hysteria.†   (source)
  • The chaplain looked from one to the other of the two men with rising doubt and hysteria.†   (source)
  • Fury was suddenly joined by hatred, not shock, not hysteria, but deep, uncompromising abhorrence.†   (source)
  • Everything that preceded it-the hysteria-had to be erased so you could cope, survive.†   (source)
  • By this time, I was on the verge of hysteria.†   (source)
  • Samuel had no equal for soothing hysteria and bringing quiet to a frightened child.†   (source)
  • And out of her hysteria a sadistic devil peered.†   (source)
  • Hysteria cushioned the emotional impact for her.†   (source)
  • Do you think it's… it's going to send me into hysteria again?†   (source)
  • Mrs. Ames settled down to a steady hysteria.†   (source)
  • Not for the firsttime it occurred to him that Ian's possession of the woman Geoffrey loved just as dearly (if secretly) allowed Ianto indulge in an odd sort of selfishness and an almost womanly hysteria that Geoffrey himself must forgo; after all, to the rest of the world he was only Misery's friend.†   (source)
  • I'm cold and wet and winded, but my escape attempt has done nothing to subdue the hysteria rising up inside me.†   (source)
  • For one ghastly moment, I was reminded of our afternoon in Italy, in the macabre tower room of the Volturi, where Jane had tortured Edward with her malignant gift, burning him with her thoughts alone…… The memory snapped me out of my near hysteria and put everything in perspective.†   (source)
  • Narcissa breathed, a note of hysteria in her voice, and as she brought down the wand like a knife, there was another flash of light.†   (source)
  • We'd watch her sprayed hair and her hysteria, and the tears she could still produce at will, and the mascara blackening her cheeks.†   (source)
  • The surprising point to make is that despite this iridescent fear glowing as it did in the dark, they somehow resisted the urge for hysteria.†   (source)
  • He began to pound the mouth below him, using his clenched fist as a hammer; he hit with more and more passionate hysteria as the face became slippery.†   (source)
  • She knew what to do for hysteria.†   (source)
  • Squirrelly scrubbing noises squirm from its sidewalls as they grind against the curb; we are in the Burbs, where it is better to take a thousand clicks off the lifespan of your Coodyears by invariably grinding them up against curbs than to risk social ostracism and outbreaks of mass hysteria by parking several inches away, out in the middle of the street (That's okay, Mom, ican walk to the curb from here), a menace to traffic, a deadly obstacle to uncertain young bicyclists.†   (source)
  • That some of these persons happen to be American citizens, happen to be loyal to this country, or happen to have no longer a binding tie with the land of their birth could all easily be swept aside by mob hysteria.†   (source)
  • Long, dim, hours of thick, furry-tongued serenity (medically administered by Dr. Verghese Verghese) lacerated by sharp, steely slashes of hysteria, as keen and cutting as the edge of a new razor blade.†   (source)
  • I recognized the song as "Pour Some Sugar on Me" by Def Leppard, off their Hysteria album (Mercury Records, 1987).†   (source)
  • The state was dreamlike, as if the hysteria had freed me from a fiction that, five minutes before, I had needed to believe.†   (source)
  • As I watched his escape, it was like looking back into a distant time, back to my own youth, when I ran and ran, when I jumped over peeling fences, fleeing vatos locos, the police or my own shadow in some drug-induced hysteria.†   (source)
  • In the lining of my pocket, I find a stray morphling tablet and swallow it dry, heading off my rising hysteria.†   (source)
  • Her voice held a note of hysteria.†   (source)
  • That's in case of hysteria.†   (source)
  • They worked therefore with great energy and cheerfulness, though as time crept by there was a suggestion of panic in the energy and hysteria in the cheerfulness.†   (source)
  • C. W. Shumway observed the Los Angeles revival of 1906 and noted six basic symptoms: complete loss of rational control; dominance of emotion that leads to hysteria; absence of thought or will; automatic functioning of the speech organs; amnesia; and occasional sporadic physical manifestations such as jerking or twitching.†   (source)
  • Lillian Taylor, who taught English at the high school, wrote back in angry condemnation of the "spirit of small-mindedness evident in the letters of Mr. Walker Coleman and Mr. Ingmar Sigurdson, two well-known islanders who quite obviously have lost their grip on their senses while in the grip of war hysteria."†   (source)
  • Hysteria.†   (source)
  • Hysteria.†   (source)
  • It could have been the hysteria which put her aim off, but the flying crockery caught Miss Glory right over her ear and she started screaming.†   (source)
  • The darkness, the violent movement, the lungs barely getting air; these were the instruments of hysteria.†   (source)
  • He fought a rising hysteria that was not merely anxiety to free his aching feet; his very life depended on the release of the knots.†   (source)
  • This morning Iggy had unfrozen the compressor fan inside the CPU, so the computer now worked without shutting down in hysteria every ten minutes.†   (source)
  • There might be tears, even mild hysteria, but that sort of reaction would be provoked by simple disorientation.†   (source)
  • Pippa's on the verge of hysteria.†   (source)
  • I gasped between spasms of hysteria.†   (source)
  • Concisely, and without hysteria.†   (source)
  • MARTHA: (A pause; then with the greatest disbelief possible, tinged with hysteria) What did you just say to me?†   (source)
  • Carlos would use whatever firepower he had stolen, including grenades, to create mass hysteria so that he could escape.†   (source)
  • Within twenty-four hours, property values had been halved and every available flight out of the country was booked in the hysteria to escape before the Russians came and strung barbed wire along the borders.†   (source)
  • A nice tight hysteria began to build and there were tickets going for shocking sums and counterfeit tickets and people rushing back from the Vineyard and the Pines and the Cape to engineer a seat.†   (source)
  • Ghosh had shown Matron photographs that Charcot, the famous French neurologist, had taken of his patients with hysteria at the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris.†   (source)
  • In the hysteria to get things, there were all sorts of confusions: people who had never smoked wound up paying an exorbitant sum for a pack of cigarettes, and those without children found themselves fighting over cans of baby formula.†   (source)
  • The colonel continued, his features contorted, his voice nearly matching the hysteria of his frenzied audience.†   (source)
  • Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.†   (source)
  • I rolled my eyes and waved one hand dismissively, like it was all ancient history, but there was an edge of hysteria to my voice.†   (source)
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