There the medical examination of the three showed that the four days in the wilderness had left its deepest effects upon the physique and mind of B. In a few days he developed an attack of tonsillitis, with fever, and a mental disturbance described by the medical officer as exhaustion psychosis.

Those Moranges lived in everlasting dread of seeing their daughter marry a needy petty clerk; succumbing to that irresistible fever which, in a democracy ravaged by political equality and economic inequality, impels every one to climb higher up the social ladder.

Perhaps his increase of fever was due to those glowing Boulevards.

But Mathieu went on again, yielding to the force of the current, carried along like all the others, a prey to the same fever which sprang from the surroundings, from the excitement of the day, from the customs of the age.

CHAPTER IX The slow fever of inaction, fretting in Philip's veins, culminated soon after Martha's departure in a passionate desire for a movement of some sort.

He sat beside his friend and watched the fever mount in him till he was wildly delirious.

Beresford was in the grip of a raging fever and could not be moved.

Fever ain't so high.

He must nurse and feed him judiciously until the fever wore itself out.

Beresford's delirium was gone and his fever was less.

With so much at stake Tom felt for the second time in his life the palsy that goes with buck fever.

He was no longer burning up with fever.

"When in 1810, after my friend, Mr Hobhouse, left me for England, I was seized with a severe fever in the Morea, these men saved my life by frightening away my physician, whose throat they threatened to cut if I was not cured within a given time.

"I think he has a fever.

"If you have a fever, shouldn't I bring Galen?" "No!" roared Commodus.

Rosa came out of her swoon in a slow fever accompanied with delirium.

He stated that Rosa was recovering from a slow fever, and had requested him to say that they must not feel anxious about her; that she had everything for her comfort, had been carefully attended by two good nurses, was daily getting better, and would write in a few weeks; meanwhile, if anything retarded her complete recovery, he would again write.

While the young prince was conducting these criminal intrigues, he was seized with a fever at Martel, [MN 1183.]

The more his heart was disposed to friendship and affection, the more he resented the barbarous return which his four sons had successively made to his parental care; and this finishing blow, by depriving him of every comfort in life, quite broke his spirit and threw him into a lingering fever, of which he expired at the Castle of Chinon, near Saumur.

[Footnote 8: hectic feverhabitual or constant fever.]

An accident or disease may very much alter my colour or shape; a fever or fall may take away my reason or memory, or both; and an apoplexy leave neither sense, nor understanding, no, nor life.

His hatchet face, close-set eyes, harsh, straight hair, and squeaky voice made him seem like some prickly, dried-up gnome a man sees in a fever.

Daggers of lambent fever race through my brain incessant.

What if the scientist of the future be destined to discover that the diamond, and it alone, is a specific for cholera, that powdered rubellite cures fever, and the chryso-beryl gout?

During the absence of the Big White Man upon some war-party or hunting-excursion, his little sister was taken ill with fever and ague.