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442 examples of Fever in a sentence

If I could take your sin upon my conscience, as you so generously wished that you might take Stanislas's fever!'
For the next forty-eight hours, he was in a fever of uncertainty.
On her return home, in spite of anything that Madame de La Mole might say, Mathilde alleged an attack of fever, and spent part of the night playing over the _cantilena_ on her piano.
Interest in the accused reached fever pitch; this was because his crime was astonishing and yet not atrocious.
Two days earlier, he had said to Fouque: 'For my emotions I cannot answer; this damp and hideous cell gives me moments of fever in which I am not myself; but fear, no; no one shall see me blench.'
I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had a touch - hay fever, I fancy it was.
I came to typhoid fever - read the symptoms - discovered that I had typhoid fever, must have had it for months without knowing it - wondered what else I had got; turned up St. Vitus's Dance - found, as I expected, that I had that too, - began to get interested in my case, and determined to sift it to the bottom, and so started alphabetically - read up ague, and learnt that I was sickening for it, and that the acute stage would commence in about another fortnight.
I could only see the tip, and the only thing that I could gain from that was to feel more certain than before that I had scarlet fever.
After a six weeks' period of drought, he would be stricken down with rheumatic fever; and he would go out in a November fog and come home with a sunstroke.
He was never without a cold, except once for nine weeks while he had scarlet fever; and he always had chilblains.
George told us about a man he had known, who had come up the river two years ago and who had slept out in a damp boat on just such another night as that was, and it had given him rheumatic fever, and nothing was able to save him, and he had died in great agony ten days afterwards.
"Nay, my dear Sitgreaves," said the youth, taking his hand, "you see there is no fever about me; look, is there any of Jack Lawton's hoarfrost on my tongue?"
cried the panic-stricken physician, "to feed men laboring under the excitement of fever with powerful nutriment.
The graduate of Edinburgh found his patient rapidly improving in health, and entirely free from fever.
The letter which the surgeon put into the hands of his messenger, as he ceased, was conceived in the following terms:-"If the fever has left Kinder, give him nourishment.
"The shock has destroyed her mind," cried Miss Peyton; "my child, my beauteous Sarah is a maniac!""No, no, no," cried Frances, "it is fever; she is lightheaded - she must recover - she shall recover."
"'Tis fever," answered Frances; "see how glassy is her eye, and look at her cheek, how flushed."
"Here is no fever to excite - 'tis a case, my dear madam, for time and care only; these, with the blessing of God, may effect a cure."
When something fresh in this line came out she was in a fever, right away, to try it; not on herself, for she was never ailing, but on anybody else that came handy.
The invitations were sent out before sunset, and straightway the young folks of the village were thrown into a fever of preparation and pleasurable anticipation.
He found Huck still in the bed that had been provided for him, and delirious with fever.
These things oppressed my mind so much, that, in short, I fell very ill; the agonies of my mind, in a word, threw me into a high fever, and long it was, that none in the family expected my life.
It was near five weeks that I kept my bed and though the violence of my fever abated in three weeks, yet it several times returned; and the physicians said two or three times, they could do no more for me, but that they must leave nature and the distemper to fight it out, only strengthening the first with cordials to maintain the struggle.
When he recovered of that, he grew sick and vomited, and in a little after was put to bed, and the next morning was, as he had been indeed all night, in a violent fever.
Here he continued very ill of a fever, and kept his bed five weeks, all which time I nursed him and tended him myself, as much and as carefully as if I had been his wife; indeed, if I had been his wife I could not have done more.
In delivering this message I got the opportunity I desired; for, speaking with one of the maids, I held a long gossip's tale with her, and had all the particulars of his illness, which I found was a pleurisy, attended with a cough and a fever.
The husband who was always trembling with fever went to bed, while the young woman opened the window to close the shutter blinds.
The boy contracted every fever, every imaginable malady, one after the other.
The damp air of the shop calmed the burning fever of her hands, and she again fell into the customary grave reverie.
When Laurent parted from her, after his initial visit, he staggered like a drunken man, and the next day, on recovering his cunning prudent calm, he asked himself whether he should return to this young woman whose kisses gave him the fever.
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