"You will be wondering at the tantrums of the man Grimes, sir,of his ordering me and my comrade Peterday out of his cottage.

I haven't had a tantrum for ages.

You not only refuse a man who could make your social position secure, but rant and get into tantrums over the compliment he pays you, and call it an 'insult,' exactly as your canting grandmother Latham might have done.

Phyl Berknowles strongly objects to the intrusion of Richard Pinckney into the glorious muddle of her Irish ménage, and irritates him so successfully that he returns in a considerable tantrum to America, leaving her with some friends in Dublin.