23 Metaphors for fever

The sporting fever of the weeks during which a general election even now lasts, with the ladder-climbing figures outside the newspaper offices, the flash-lights at night, and the cheering or groaning crowds in the party clubs, are not only waste of energy but an actual hindrance to effective political reasoning.

My own sympathies were decidedly with the sentry, for I had fever, and "fever is another man".

Indeed, he felt the effect of the illness for years, for typhoid fever is a foe whose weapons leave scars even after the healing of the wounds it inflicts.

However, I think my fevers are a good deal abated, although my pains grow rather worse, and my sleep equally disturbed.

Typhoid fever was a new case to me, but I remembered what instructions Boss had given me about it.

Fever is the beginning of the thing one never speaks of.

A violent fever, with its train of consequences, besides the unwearied attentions of his family, were so many fresh occupations for his mind, and formed a kind of painful entertainment.

The next daythe yellow fever was bad againhe resumed the practice of his profession.

The fever of artistic creation was upon himall the old desires and the old exhausting joys.

I tell you, Norton," spoke Haines in a confidential manner, "this land speculation fever is a frightful thing.

"We must see that he has food, or the fever will be his death.

A tyrant never killed a man in six months: but a fever is often a year about it.

Julius thought almost as much as Jenny could do of the means of recalling Archie; but it was necessary to wait until he could communicate with Mr. Moy, and his hands were still over-full, for though much less fatal, the fever smouldered on, both in Wil'sbro' and Compton, and as St. Nicholas was a college living which had hitherto been viewed as a trump card, it might be a long time going the round of the senior fellows.

She now knew why: the fever was due to their efforts to obtain him, his efforts to respond and gophysical results of a fierce unrest he had never understood till Sanderson came with his wicked explanations.

But burning fever is the root From whence those roses spring; While pain and suffering, on thy brow, Those snowy lilies fling.

This train-fever is, of course, only a symptom.

The wetting she had gotten, on the evening whose events we have chronicled, had not seriously affected her;a severe cold, and with it some slight fever, had been the result.

It is an apish work in such sort to juggle with Holy Scripture: it is no otherwise than if I should discourse of physic in this manner: the fever is a sickness, rhubarb is the physic.

Fever, the miasma of the fens, had been the deadly lava for this Pompeii.

The yellow fever, which has lately been so fatal, is a new disorder, first brought to the West Indies, in a slave-ship from the coast of Africa, late in the year 1792.

It was Oliver Wendell Holmesa graduate in medicine and a professor in the Harvard Medical School, though we are accustomed to think of him only as a delightful writerwho first declared that puerperal fever was the product of infection from without the body, and Semmelweis demonstrated the truth of the proposition.

But the diseases of the two were different, as their natures were; and Shelley's fever was not Byron's.

'And yet, in the fever I seemed to love some one else: but fevers are like dreams; they are not true.' Lady Annabel pressed her lips gently to her daughter's, and whispered her that she must speak no more.

23 Metaphors for  fever