All 22 Uses
hysteria
in
The Secret Garden
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- Hysterics and temper are half what ails him.†
p. 149.4
- "What are hysterics?" asked Mary.†
p. 149.4
- You'll find out if you work him into a tantrum after this—but at any rate you've given him something to have hysterics about, and I'm glad of it.†
p. 149.5
- He had never told any one but Mary that most of his "tantrums" as they called them grew out of his hysterical hidden fear.†
p. 151.1hysterical = exceedingly funny (resulting in uncontrollable laughter); or exhibiting excessive, uncontrollable emotion
- He's having one of those tantrums the nurse called hysterics.†
p. 152.7
- "He's worked himself into hysterics," she said in a great hurry.†
p. 153.5
- A nice sympathetic child could neither have thought nor have said such things, but it just happened that the shock of hearing them was the best possible thing for this hysterical boy whom no one had ever dared to restrain or contradict.†
p. 154.3hysterical = exceedingly funny (resulting in uncontrollable laughter); or exhibiting excessive, uncontrollable emotion
- "Half that ails you is hysterics and temper—just hysterics—hysterics—hysterics!" and she stamped each time she said it.†
p. 154.8
- "Half that ails you is hysterics and temper—just hysterics—hysterics—hysterics!" and she stamped each time she said it.†
p. 154.8
- "Half that ails you is hysterics and temper—just hysterics—hysterics—hysterics!" and she stamped each time she said it.†
p. 154.8
- "Half that ails you is hysterics and temper—just hysterics—hysterics—hysterics!" and she stamped each time she said it.†
p. 154.8
- If you did it was only a hysterical lump.†
p. 154.9hysterical = exceedingly funny (resulting in uncontrollable laughter); or exhibiting excessive, uncontrollable emotion
- Hysterics makes lumps.†
p. 154.9
- There's nothing the matter with your horrid back—nothing but hysterics!†
p. 155.1
- She liked the word "hysterics" and felt somehow as if it had an effect on him.†
p. 155.1
- Hooray!" but he was weak and rather hysterical; his eyes grew bigger and bigger and he gasped for breath.†
p. 166.3hysterical = exceedingly funny (resulting in uncontrollable laughter); or exhibiting excessive, uncontrollable emotion
- And she was so un-hysterical and natural and childish that she brought him to his senses and he began to laugh at himself and a few minutes afterward she was sitting on her stool again telling him not what she imagined the secret garden to be like but what it really was, and Colin's aches and tiredness were forgotten and he was listening enraptured.†
p. 166.6
- He was always sent for at once when such a thing occurred and he always found, when he arrived, a white shaken boy lying on his bed, sulky and still so hysterical that he was ready to break into fresh sobbing at the least word.†
p. 167.2
- The boy is half insane with hysteria and self-indulgence.†
p. 167.6 *
- If this tiresome hysterical boy should chance to get well he himself would lose all chance of inheriting Misselthwaite; but he was not an unscrupulous man, though he was a weak one, and he did not intend to let him run into actual danger.†
p. 169.3hysterical = exceedingly funny (resulting in uncontrollable laughter); or exhibiting excessive, uncontrollable emotion
- So long as Colin shut himself up in his room and thought only of his fears and weakness and his detestation of people who looked at him and reflected hourly on humps and early death, he was a hysterical half-crazy little hypochondriac who knew nothing of the sunshine and the spring and also did not know that he could get well and could stand upon his feet if he tried to do it.†
p. 248.4
- After that he scarcely ever saw him except when he was asleep, and all he knew of him was that he was a confirmed invalid, with a vicious, hysterical, half-insane temper.†
p. 254.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(hysteria) a state of excessive, uncontrollable emotionIn addition to being the adjective form of hysteria, the form hysterical can also indicate that something is exceedingly funny (leading to uncontrollable laughter)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)