She also covers the urgent question of what to do when gripped with a terrible coughing fit (leave at once).

Frances was already spoiled and given to "sudden, terrible fits of temper."

Such a terrible fit of the blues.

To imagine otherwise was only to invite the terrible fits of melancholy that have periodically overcome France in the last year.

Whatever it was, they would throw terrible fits and spasms, and thrash around on the floor and scream.

He has had such terrible fits of passion as almost to make me believe that he would bring the Bastille itself down about our ears.

And as though to emphasise his words he burst into another terrible fit of coughing.

This provokes a terrible fit of anger on her part.

A peacock has evolved to have bright feathers, which makes it a terrible fit in its environment since it is more visible to predators.

"While possessed by one of those terrible fits, Miss Whitewood grabbed my hand and dragged me into the bed with an inhuman strength."