" The Colonel fastened one hand feverishly on his pardner's arm.

And how was she to know, poor Billie, that the news the girls would have to tell her would serve only to make her mood the blacker? As she neared the Farrington home, Violet herself came rushing out to meet her, looking unusually and feverishly excited.

I kept looking out feverishly for some one with an air of authority to whom I could appeal.

But the sight of Kate, woe-begone, feverishly caressing the dead brother, brought the tenderer instincts back.

Hornblower, who was staring at the unconscious woman and mopping his face feverishly, spun around at the crash.

As for me, I retreated to the stair, and sat there feverishly mopping my face and trying to understand.

" "Yes, yes," I agreed feverishly, pressing his hand.

Then Amelia knew that the boy had seen his grandfather; and looked out feverishly for a proposal which she was sure would follow, and which came, in fact, a few days afterwards.

" "Is the door shutshut tight?" demanded Libbie feverishly, grasping Betty's hand with both her hot, dry ones.

It came swiftly towards him, impelled by six strong oars, and his eye turned feverishly in the direction of the fugitive.

She continued feverishly to pluck the pale flowers that grew all about them, her eyes fixed upon her task.

" She spoke rapidly, almost feverishly, leaning forward and gripping the edge of the table, till the skin showed white on her knuckles.

Bruce gave one startled look behind them, then began working feverishly.

" V Ralph Ellsworth stalked among the trees, feverishly searching for squirrels, scarlet leaves, and the glint of a brown walking-dress, this last not being so easy to locate in sunlit autumn woods.

" "Feverishly adding to a fortune already monstrous?" "No; not precisely monstrous.

His one relief was in talking to her, in feverishly turning over with her every possibility of delay and obstruction; and he marvelled at the intelligence and energy she brought to the discussion of these questions.

After another half-hour of this, with eyes feverishly searching for recognizable landmarks, I again began to have doubts as to the veracity of the tram lines.

speaking quickly, feverishly.

Although we worked on the computers feverishly in the morning to make way for the daily staff (whose strict deadline gave them precedence), as deadline approached tempers could occasionally erupt.

One day Lirio was feverishly editing copy with a ball pen refill even though he had an empty ball pen in his pocket.

Feverishly he walked, and far, until at last, as if naught in himself could avail, he threw himself to the ground and prayed.

" Aniela almost feverishly gave me her hand, which I raised reverently to my lips.

Octavia, of course, turned the conversation and spoke to the hostess, but she said the two beside her, in spite of not being on speaking terms chatted feverishly to each other for the rest of lunch to avoid pauses, in case, Octavia supposes, she should ask any more difficult questions.

But her mind worked feverishly all the time, and gradually she fought herself free of this weeping, which clutched her against her will.

The eyes of such, feverishly devouring walls, cornices, pillars, seemed to say: "God!