Which preposition to use with hysteric

at Occurrences 4%

In a few minutes Mrs. Merrick was in violent hysterics at the disappearance of her daughter.

in Occurrences 3%

Only last week she had hysterics in my dressing-room, and said he had threatened to poison her.

for Occurrences 2%

You remember what a fuss there was when he married, how Lady Westaway had hysterics for three days.

by Occurrences 2%

There, when the story had been sorrowfully repeated by the Gospeler, Mr. BUMSTEAD exhibited the core of the apple, and tickled the magistrate almost into hysterics by whispering very closely in his ear, that it was a core curiously similar to that of the last apple eaten by his nephew; and, having been found in an apple from the prisoner's satchel, might be useful in evidence.

on Occurrences 1%

" He found Madam Conway in hysterics on Margaret's bed, for she had refused to leave the room, saying she would die there, or nowhere.

to Occurrences 1%

" "Mr. Werner had hysterics to-day," asserted Maud, gravely; "but I didn't blame him.

as Occurrences 1%

I have often heard the Professor talk about hysterics as being Nature's cleverest illustration of the reciprocal convertibility of the two states of which these acts are the manifestations; but you may see it every day in children; and if you want to choke with stifled tears at sight of the transition, as it shows itself in older years, go and see Mr. Blake play Jesse Rural.

with Occurrences 1%

This was a low-browed, broad-faced, intrepid wench with black hair, who did not "vally a ghost not a button," and treated the housekeeper's hysterics with measureless scorn.

during Occurrences 1%

And Mrs. Charteris had not wept once during the church ceremony, and had not even had hysterics during the interment at Cedarwood; and she had capped a scandalous morning's work by remaining with the undertaker and the bricklayers to supervise the closing of John Charteris's grave.

from Occurrences 1%

After another hour of suspense Lady Annabel arrived, and her entrance was the signal for a renewed burst of hysterics from Mrs. Cadurcis, so wild and terrible that they must have been contagious to any female of less disciplined emotions than her guest.

into Occurrences 1%

Madame la Marquise, in the meanwhile, had passed from one fit of hysterics into another.

Which preposition to use with  hysteric