Fevers
[fi:vəz]
Examples
- Bad people have fevers sometimes; haven't they, eh? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The use of the thermometer in recording the progress of fevers is also a valuable modern application, and the list of instruments and small tools is beyond enumeration. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- As to the new hospital, which is nearly finished, I shall consider what you have said about the advantages of the special destination for fevers. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This is autumn, a season fertile in fevers. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Malarial fevers broke out among the men. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Pilgrims in better circumstances are often stricken down by the sun and the fevers of the country, and then their saving refuge is the Convent. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Quietness is everything in these inflammatory fevers, you know, my sweet. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Fevers are not peculiar to good people; are they? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- It is excellent for illness of all kinds, especially fevers, and is as valued now as it was in the days of Pliny. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
Editor: Mervin