A band of feverish boys bursts into our compartment: Madame's crew, come to carry her purchases.
A feverish young boy spies the rainy outline of a girl fleeing a monster, and follows her into an alternate version of their European town, where he too becomes only visible in the rain.
It was the sight of this child's hand that quite suddenly transformed this first attack on the city by American bombers from the sensation it had been up to then — a sensation which produced a state of feverish excitement in the boy I was at the time — into an atrocity, an enormity.
This was British R&B, a new beginning, and by August 1963 it had spawned its own music show, which I watched across the ironing board as I pressed my tab-collar shirt and John Stephen strides before heading into an amphetamine-fuelled night, but not even the iconic Ready Steady Go! could surpass the feverish excitement of Oh Boy!
Ms. Kuhn found every psychological nuance in the feverish meditation of a boy-crazy teenager who fantasizes about becoming pregnant and whose rebellious attitude fuels some bitter cross-fire between her indulgent father and puritanical mother.
You pull out your secret weapon, the ace in the hole: A love potion so potent it's been putting teenage girls and boys in a panting, feverish sweat for decades.
Set in the fictional Green Town, Illinois (a reimagined Waukegan), during the long hot summer of 1928, it concerns minor domestic incidents which are made over in the feverish mind of a 12-year-old boy so that the town seems to become a realm of time-travellers and witches, of enchanted tennis shoes and impossible "happiness machines".
Softly painted in feverish colors, these woozy visions of androgynous, shirtless boys are like views into the hormone-addled mind of a lovesick teenage narcissist.
The wounded boy's eyes were closed, his face feverish and swollen, cheeks wet with melting frost.
"Look at my boy, he has nothing on his bones," said Abdul Hussain, holding a feverish 2-year-old in his arms in Shebertoo.
