I might be able to help some of them, if I stopped wavering like an hysterical child.

Tanner spoke to his son softly and went to his wife, taking the hysterical child from her.

'But now that you've brought it up like a hysterical child, perhaps you ought to tell him yourself.'

"I'm on my way to Switzerland for the rest of tonight," he said firmly, as if speaking to a hysterical child.

"We're not going to the hospital," he said, as if deliberately trying to calm a hysterical child.

A pack of hysterical children ran shrieking down the Promenade.

He patted his stomach as though trying to calm a hysterical child.

Another remarked that it was ridiculous to be startled out of a sound sleep by an hysterical child, trying to attract attention.

I cannot afford to cope with a hysterical child right now.

Darting to the shelf, he tucked the hysterical child under his arm and took off after the others.