Sentence examples for on a fever from inspiring English sources

He tries to persuade Mary Crawford to go to "the races" with him and is duly punished when he goes off to Newmarket, "where a neglected fall and a good deal of drinking had brought on a fever".

Their expressiveness isn't reduced; rather, it's conjured not by a relentless venting of extremes but by a sense of contrast; they deliver sudden and passing moments of flamboyance that stand out like spikes on a fever chart.

Susan's son is a senior at Princeton this year, so if he doesn't have a girlfriend he plans on marrying when he's out of school, does he fall into this "real world of dummy men" bucket, or is that a label reserved for "other men" whom you "don't know" because you're "basing this on a fever dream"?

Phillips died on May 13 of a fever, and Arnold was briefly in command again until Cornwallis arrived a week later.

In this case, the nurse contacted the authorities on Monday complaining of a fever.

After going as far as Oklahoma, a disappointed De Soto turned back to the Mississippi River, where he died of a fever on June 20 , 1542

Aged 50 and without any prior signs of illness, he died of a fever on July 13 , 1915

The leaf juice is applied on the head of a fever patient.

On May 13, Phillips died of a fever, and Arnold retook control of the force.

He too has a black spot on his palm due to a fever.

This sequence, like much of Vinyl, tries thinly to cash in on a fever-pitch moment: 1970s NYC in its socially disordered glory, post-white flight and on the cusp of a devastating drug epidemic and cleanup.