Use fever in a sentence
Sentences starting with fever
- Fever is the thing I'm afraid of--temperature--this way, please! [11]
- Fever had already begun, and his mind was wandering as he took the beautiful wax bust out of the box. [10]
- Fever and ague appears to have been of frequent occurrence. [3]
Sentences ending with fever
- The day I wrote you--that night, I mean --she had a bitter attack of gout or rheumatism occupying the whole left arm from shoulder to fingers, accompanied by fever. [5]
- The day began with the heightening of the fever. [13]
- You came hither with the assurance of your favour; but the flattering words of promise which you bestowed upon the unhappy woman were probably only the drops of poppy-juice given to soothe the ravings of fever. [10]
- Every one with whom we talked, except the rider, had more or less the mineral fever. [4]
- It is doubtful whether this should be considered a case of puerperal fever. [3]
- The younger ones when shedding their milk-teeth often died from fever. [1]
- Often I shivered violently, and anon I was burning hot; my adventure had given me a chill and fever. [11]
- Elsie was sitting up in her bed when it came, languid, but tranquil, and Helen was by her, as usual, holding her hand, which was strangely cold, Helen thought, for one who was said to have some kind of fever. [6]
- At night she tossed about and wandered, and it became at length apparent that there was a settled attack, something like what they called, formerly, a "nervous fever. [6]
- And then he took the fever. [5]
Short sentences using fever
- I was dying of fever. [2]
- The fever is high. [11]
- It is for fever. [5]
- Kneeland.--Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever. [3]
- He's red-hot with fever. [11]
- You have a fever! [10]
- It's spring fever. [5]
- Fever. [5]
- Boarding-House Fever. [6]
Sentences containing fever two or more times
- I had neither the time nor the desire to philosophize on this national fever, which animated all my associates: animated, I might say, the nation, which was beginning to get into a fever about games. [9]
- The fever of the hunter had passed from him, and another fever was on him. [11]
- Then fever set in, but the doctor had said the fever was not very serious. [2]
- If a doctor has science without common sense, he treats a fever, but not this man's fever. [6]
- The national fever had thoroughly pervaded my blood--the national fever to win. [9]
- The other complaint from which they suffered, but which has nearly disappeared from among us, was intermittent fever, or fever and ague. [3]
- In another instance a surgeon was called while in the act of inspecting the body of a woman who had died of this fever, to attend a labor; within forty-eight hours this patient was seized with the fever. [3]
More example sentences with the word fever in them
- Money may desert you, friends forsake you, enemies grow indifferent to you, but the scarlet fever will be true to you, through thick and thin, till you be all saved or damned, down to the last one. [5]
- On she went, writing incessantly for three weeks; by which time she had carried her heroine away from Thornfield, and was herself in a fever which compelled her to pause. [14]
- A fever of work was on him. [11]
- The old physician wondered at her sound constitution, for since her plunge into the water the fever had left her and even the injured foot was not much the worse. [10]
- She tortured herself with questions, and the less peace her aunt gave her, the more unendurable her headache became, the more plainly she felt that the fever, against whose relaxing power she had struggled for days, would conquer her. [10]
- Even the city, with its mass of stone and brick, rectangles, straight lines, dust, noise, and fever of activity, is penetrated by this divine suggestion of the renewal of life. [4]
- He greeted Andreas with cheerful kindness, and the freedman knew what he meant when, without waiting to be asked, he said: "We are out of the wood now; the fever has passed away. [10]
- They were glowing with a fire of excitement which was like a fever devouring the spirit, with little dark, flying banners of fate or tragedy behind. [11]
- Exercise now a wider compassion, and reflect that Fate has called you to take care of a hapless creature raving in fever and hard to deal with. [10]
- The young people who come into Paris from the provinces are very apt--so I have been told by one that knows--to have an attack of typhoid fever a few weeks or months after their arrival. [6]
- But what rapture while the fever lasted! [9]
- And my dream, while I lay ill with fever far away from my mistress! [10]
- In one tent, where a young mother was shaking with the chill of a severe attack of fever, Miriam asked the pallid Milcah to bring her medicine chest, and the desolate wife went on her errand with joyous alacrity. [10]
- I doubt that when one has had the fever of travel and the world, the bandbox is permanently habitable again. [11]
- Typhoid fever is what's going to come of this. [5]
- We all know what the war fever is in our young men,--what a devouring passion it becomes in those whom it assails. [6]
- During the first week Dion's wound and fever still harassed him, but the prediction of Pyrrhus that the pure, fresh sea-air would benefit the sufferer had been fulfilled, and the monotonous days had passed swiftly enough to the young bride in caring for the invalid. [10]
- Twice in one week did this fever surge up in him, and it caught him in those moments when, exhausted by the struggle of his mind to adapt itself to the new conditions, his senses were delicately susceptible. [11]
- Give me the water that shall be a well of water springing up to everlasting life, that I thirst not in the fever of doing. [11]
- Brinsmade, if it wasn't for you and your friends on the Western Sanitary Commission, we'd all have been dead of fever and bad food long ago. [9]
- Perhaps the fever was seething in her blood yesterday. [10]
- Sir Kenelm Digby was playing his fantastic tricks with the Sympathetic powder, and teaching Governor Winthrop, the second, how to cure fever and ague, which some may like to know. [3]
- But the American was in a fever of impatience, desirous, if possible, to get on that night. [4]
- I said it was a fever, and got the family's compassion, and solicitude aroused; so they gave him a teaspoonful of liquid quinine and it set his vitals on fire. [5]
- She had been very ill with a severe fever, but was much better during the past few days. [10]
- Some stared at us with sallow faces and eyes brightened by the fever, yet others had the red glow of health. [9]
- She had got up at eight that morning and had been in a fever of excitement and activity all day. [2]
- Dr. Collins refers to several instances in which puerperal fever has appeared to originate from a continued proximity to patients suffering with typhus. [3]
- He had come to look upon felony as a kind of disorder, like the scarlet fever or erysipelas: some people had it--some hadn't--just as it might be. [12]
- I hadn't enough to eat, and I didn't know whether I'd die by hunger, or fever, or Indians--or snakes. [11]
- The practical point to be illustrated is the following: The disease known as Puerperal Fever is so far contagious as to be frequently carried from patient to patient by physicians and nurses. [3]
- I now refused to attend any labor, and did not till April 21st, when, having thoroughly cleansed myself, I resumed my practice, and had no more puerperal fever. [3]
- The most dangerous time will be when the fever leaves her. [5]
- I have no time to turn round, a young lady visitor (schoolmate of Livy's) is dying in the house of typhoid fever (parents are in South Carolina) and the premises are full of nurses and doctors and we are all fagged out. [5]
- Oh, many a time have I thought of that and regretted it, and I adjure you all to give while the fever is on you. [5]
- The landlord found this document and, being able to read, confirmed the statement of the sick youth; he was, however, soon seized by a fresh attack of fever, and began to speak incoherently. [10]
- His lieutenant-colonel was there, gravely wounded; his college-friend and comrade in arms, a son of the house, was there, injured in a similar way; another soldier, brother of the last, was there, prostrate with fever. [6]
- He had fever, there was to be a fight, and I wished to know if you had any later news. [11]
- A slight indisposition, then an hour of fever, then the hideous delirium, then--the Yellow Death! [5]
- I have used the word "ailment" advisedly, since he evidently put my trouble in the same category with diphtheria or scarlet fever, remarking that it was "darned hard luck. [9]
- Her Ladyship received the tidings with great fortitude; and instead of the torrent of reproaches I looked for, and deserved, she implored me to go home and care for my injuries lest I get the fever. [9]
- She told him the substance of the letter, of David's plight, of the fever, of the intended fight, of Nahoum Pasha, of the peril to David's work. [11]
- This was in the shadows of the scented pines; and a new life breathed upon her, as it breathed upon them all, and they knew that the fever of the White Valley had passed away from them forever. [11]
- Then he drinks the sewage at the Kedar Ghat to cure the fever; it cures the fever but gives him the smallpox. [5]
- Typhus fever decimated the school periodically; and consumption and scrofula, in every variety of form bad air and water, bad and insufficient diet can generate, preyed on the ill-fated pupils. [14]
- But something of the same fever in a different form reaches a good many non-combatants, who have no thought of losing a drop of precious blood belonging to themselves or their families. [6]
- I allude to the rise, growth and culmination of the silver-mining fever in Nevada -a curious episode, in some respects; the only one, of its peculiar kind, that has occurred in the land; and the only one, indeed, that is likely to occur in it. [5]
- The pain of the poor man's wound increased, his fever was greater, and he was very thirsty. [10]
- I, too, scanned the period immediately preceding my illness, but reached the conclusion that it was due to acute colds, the first of which ran into a very violent fever. [10]
- Ah, it is the pale passions that are the fiercest,--it is the violence of the chill that gives the measure of the fever! [6]
- The niggro is the only person who can stand the fever and ague of this region. [5]
- She had disappeared the night Valmond was seized of the fever, and she came back to her little home in the very hour that Elise visited her. [11]
- In Smolensk, at the Malakhov Gate, he had hardly dozed off in a paroxysm of fever before he was awakened by the bombardment of the town--and Smolensk held out all day long. [2]
- Now she forgot the insulting name altogether, and met the objections of her nurse by saying: "The fever cannot be much now; if you tell me something I shall not think so constantly of this atrocious pain. [10]
- This dread seized the guilty mother with irresistible power, and she wondered that the cheeks of the little sleepers were not already glowing with fever. [10]
- He knew that the fever was increasing, as it had done once before when he nearly lost his life in the red disease; but he was ashamed to own it and battled bravely against his pain. [10]
- From that moment the fever increased. [10]
- He was at the examination of a case of puerperal fever at two o'clock in the afternoon. [3]
- He had what the doctors termed "bilious fever. [2]
- At night in the cool winds the fever abated and she slept. [13]
- A practitioner opened the body of a woman who had died of puerperal fever, and continued to wear the same clothes. [3]
- Dr. Condie called the attention of the Society to the prevalence, at the present time, of puerperal fever of a peculiarly insidious and malignant character. [3]
- He dropped instantly the affairs which he had on hand, and without waiting for dinner the two gentlemen went together through the wards where the fever raged. [9]
- Mrs.______, confined on the 14th of June, was comfortable until the 18th, when symptoms of puerperal fever were manifest. [3]
- A writer in the "New York Medical and Physical Journal" for October, 1829, in speaking of the occurrence of puerperal fever, confined to one man's practice, remarks, "We have known cases of this kind occur, though rarely, in New York. [3]
- I have heard that two cases of the yellow fever have broken out this afternoon. [9]
- It is true that some of the historians of the disease, especially Hulme, Hull, and Leake, in England; Tonnelle, Duges, and Baudelocque, in France, profess not to have found puerperal fever contagious. [3]
- So it was that Sheila entered alone, and came to the bed and looked at the woman in the extreme depression of fever. [11]
- Considers it proved that puerperal fever maybe propagated by the hands and the clothes, or either, of a third person, the bed-clothes or body-clothes of a patient. [3]
- I cannot doubt that it has saved the lives of many young mothers by calling attention to the existence and propagation of "Puerperal Fever as a Private Pestilence," and laying down rules for taking the necessary precautions against it. [6]
- Mr. Roberton says that in one instance within his knowledge a practitioner passed the catheter for a patient with puerperal fever late in the evening; the same night he attended a lady who had the symptoms of the disease on the second day. [3]
- They told him, that he had been lying in a violent fever for weeks, and had only escaped death by the special mercy of the gods, the skill of the physicians, and the unwearied nursing of his mother. [10]
- The artist thought that fever had driven the wounded warrior from his couch, as it formerly did his fellow-pupil Lycon, whom, in the delirium of typhus, he could keep in bed only by force. [10]
- Word was brought that Bucklaw still lived, but was in a high fever, and that the chances were all against him; and Phips sent cordials and wines from his own stores, and asked that news be brought to him of any change. [11]
- It is granted that all the forms of what is called puerperal fever may not be, and probably are not, equally contagious or infectious. [3]
- Her old music teacher, Feys, to whom she was so much indebted, had been attacked by slow fever, and she had received him in her house five days ago, and provided with loving devotion for his nursing. [10]
- Let him now take up Watson's Lectures, the good sense and spirit of which have made his book a universal favorite, and open to the chapter on Continued Fever. [3]
- They had themselves suffered from the epidemic; Anne severely, as in her case it had been attended with cough and fever enough to make her elder sisters very anxious about her. [14]
- Then the fever struck the youth to the ground. [10]
- He found Huck still in the bed that had been provided for him, and delirious with fever. [5]
- At the United States Hotel, where many were lying, I heard mention of an officer in an upper chamber, and, going there, found Lieutenant Abbott, of the Twentieth Massachusetts Volunteers, lying ill with what looked like typhoid fever. [6]
- Young men of St. Louis, struck in a night by the fever of militarism, arose and went to Glencoe. [9]
- I have already spoken of the possibility that Dr. Meigs may have been the medium of transfer of puerperal fever in some of the cases he has briefly catalogued. [3]
- Nor did they speak without reason; fever was preparing a victim for the sacrifice at Rahway, and Louis Bachelor was fed with its poison till he grew haggard and weak. [11]
- The fever was soon broken, but weakness prevented her journeying to Schweinau on foot, and, as Apel intended to go to Nuremberg the first of the following week, she had been forced to content herself with sending the messenger who had betrayed her confidence. [10]
- The likeness was so perfect, and his judgment so weakened by wine and fever, that he fancied himself the victim of some spell, and yet could not turn his eyes from those dear features. [10]
- She noticed a slight limp in his gait and a convulsive twitching of his eyelids; his slender, almost transparent hand, she reflected, was that of a sick man, and pain and fever, no doubt, had thinned his hair, which had left many places bald. [10]
- At home I slept on a bundle of straw, and very uncomfortable it was when I was shaken by the fever. [10]
- This same great sickness could hardly have been yellow fever, as it occurred in the month of November. [3]
- Even in this short illness, Kilquhanity's flesh had dropped away from him, leaving him but a bundle of bones, on which the skin quivered with fever. [11]
- Always alert was she, solicitous beyond belief, scanning ever the dial of her watch to know when to give me brandy and physic; or reaching across to feel my temples for the fever. [9]
- In sixteen hours she was attacked with the symptoms of puerperal fever, and narrowly escaped with her life. [3]
- Till now the shaken soul has been living in a dream; but now that the fever has passed away, she will soon be herself again. [10]
- This was a severe labor, and followed by unequivocal puerperal fever, or peritonitis. [3]
- Hill, of Leuchars.--A Series of Cases illustrating the Contagious Nature of Erysipelas and of Puerperal Fever, and their Intimate Pathological Connection. [3]
- The invitations were sent out before sunset, and straightway the young folks of the village were thrown into a fever of preparation and pleasurable anticipation. [5]
- But she has seen men tied to their horses ride as that man is riding, when stricken with fever, bruised by falling timber, lacerated by a grizzly, wounded by a bullet, or crushed by a herd of buffaloes. [11]
- He worked this scene up till he got his house in a burning fever of excitement and anticipation, then came his climax. [5]
- I will only say, that the evidence appears to me altogether satisfactory that some most fatal series of puerperal fever have been produced by an infection originating in the matter or effluvia of erysipelas. [3]
- Philippus will certainly say there is scarcely any fever. [10]
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