"Throw a fit" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... other and grinned. "I wouldn't try it again, Chris," Charley chuckled; "you might throw a fit next time, you act ...
— The Boy Chums in the Forest - or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades • Wilmer M. Ely
... wid your nonsinse," she commanded. "Ye'll have the pore crature that worried it'll set up barkin', an' if the misthress did know, there be's a dawg in the house, she'd likely just throw a fit an' die." ...
— Explorers of the Dawn • Mazo de la Roche
... to throw a fit about it, anyhow," I grumbled, as I hastened to accompany him out of the castle and down the somewhat dusty road to ...
— The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons • James Francis Thierry
... lifted his big empty eyes nervously. The vast hollows in which they lived darkened. His little rather hard face trembled within itself. I thought for a second he was going to throw a fit at my feet—instead of doing which he replied pettishly, ...
— The Enormous Room • Edward Estlin Cummings
... illusions, hallucinations, and delusions. He had suicidal tendencies, and he had alternating periods of exhilaration and depression. To simply assert that he was an epileptic does not explain these symptoms. For epileptics cannot throw a fit at will. However, we know that ten per cent of epileptics develop mental diseases, no particular psychosis but a loss of mental ...
— The Necessity of Atheism • Dr. D.M. Brooks |
