Citations:befevered
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English citations of befevered
Adjective: "afflicted with fever"
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- 1865 — T. A. B. Spratt, Travels and Researchs in Crete, Volume II, John Van Voorst (1865), page 24:
- The miserable and befevered village of Fotia, containing about a dozen houses, stands in about the middle of the site, between the acropolis and the chapel; and it derives its proverbial insalubrity from the stagnation of the Lethæus in a marsh in front of it to the east, just before its escape through the contracted valley passing beneath the acropolis of Phæstus and communicating with the maritime plain of Debaki.
- 1878 — George Dennis, The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, John Murray (1878), page 236:
- The place is squalid beyond description, almost in utter ruin, desolated in summer by malaria, and at no time containing more that some hundred and fifty befevered souls […]
- 1884 — James Hannington, "My Journey in Africa", The Churchman, February 1884:
- Befevered as I was, I bounded from my seat, seized him, dragged him into his seat, and defied him to move.
- 1904 — John Worrell Northrop, Chronicles from the Diary of a War Prisoner in Andersonville and Other Military Prisons of the South in 1864, self-published (1904), page 118:
- Nor pangs of pain and heavy langour
- That press and sickening fill
- My body, thin my blood, shade my brain
- With clouds of squalid gloom, like miasmatic mists
- That haunted befevered vales;
- 1939 — Ben Arid (pseudonym of Melville Clemens Barnard), Putting "It" in the Column, De Vorss & Co. (1939), page 85:
- Indeed, I am convinced that there is no microbe or germ, however tough and wicked he may be, that could survive the repeated shocks upon his armor of a series of deep, lusty guffaws deftly produced by the skilled medico in the heart cockles of his befevered patient!
- 1977 — The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, 1822 to 1852, Johns Hopkins University Press (1977), →ISBN, page 184:
- And then Hurrah for blue water, & if ever a poor beshaken & befevered set of fellows could send home their topsails nimbly, we shall, for everyone thinks that he shall recover his strength & spirits & be somewhat less certain of being on the sick in course of a week.
- 2001 — William T. Vollmann, Argall: The True Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith, Penguin (2002), →ISBN, page 285:
- See John Smith swollen & befevered, his teeth clinking and rattling unto the iron plates on his brigandine vest.
- 2004 — May 13, Christopher Lloyd & Joe Keenan, "Goodnight, Seattle", episodes 11-23/24 of Frasier, 00:08:16-00:08:30:
- Frasier Crane: Use it in a sentence.
Charlotte Connor: Her grandmother's bed was warm and quilty.
Frasier Crane: And why is she lying there? Because she's feeling all "befevered" again?
- Frasier Crane: Use it in a sentence.
- 2009 — Christine Blevins, The Tory Widow, Berkley (2009), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- Anne swiped the mobcap from her head, befevered a-sudden, with a lump in her throat as if she'd just swallowed a toad whole.