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1  She longed for her father, that artist at creating hysterical parties.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  Daily Carol walked from town into flashing country hysteric with new life.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  She sounded hysterical to herself; she fancied that to Sam Clark she sounded insane.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  Fern and she had been hysterical with nonsense, had invented mad parties for all the coming winter.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
5  She fled back to the dancers, and at Dave Dyer's masterstroke of dropping an icicle down Mrs. McGanum's back she applauded hysterically.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
6  She sought to be sensible; she elaborately explained to herself that it was hysterical to condemn Gopher Prairie because it did not foam over the drama.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  Here the matrons forgot social jealousies, and sat gossiping in gingham; or, in old bathing-suits, surrounded by hysterical children, they paddled for hours.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  She wore a severe high-collared blouse with a row of small black buttons, which was becoming to her low-breasted slim neatness, but her skirt was hysterically checkered, her cheeks were too highly rouged, her lips too sharply penciled.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX