"Throw a fit" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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
... 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
... that when you come to think of it," Tyke declared. "We're right down here in the earthquake zone, where the earth's liable to throw a fit any time. Like enough this old whaleback is a sleeping volcano. She may blow up again ...
— Doubloons--and the Girl • John Maxwell Forbes
... 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
... if she could throw anything—not even her voice," remarked Roland, when the carriage had passed. "But I fancy the old colored fellow is about ready to 'throw a fit,' at any rate." ...
— Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays • Margaret Penrose |
