As each matron or girl made her appearance in the vast dining-room the female boarders already seated would look her over with feverish interest, comparing her gown and diamonds with their own.
With our joint efforts we finally managed to placate her, however, and the next evening our shop was the scene offeverish activity.
I never saw him talk to her save to give her some order, which she would execute with feverish haste.
She had disturbed the balance of the world by feverish political conditions that had shaken her for nine years and put her far in advance of other nations.
The whole business has made me so nervous and excitable that I cannot close my eyes at night, and I feel feverish and restless all day.
He ought, certainly, for the eyes of a great republic watch us with feverish anxiety.
They are doing a smart thing, no doubt, but it is killing the feverish young men with throbbing brains, who are doing the work.
Tom, having wandered joyously over the whole house, making friends with everybody and admiring everything, was engaged in the feverish occupation of trying to find his stamp album, which he had left behind in India.
The boy lay in a feverish doze, his large dark eyes half-closed, and his head turning now and again restlessly on the pillow.
So the time passed in silence, broken only by the feverish whispering of the sick man.
He sat up when I entered the room; there were feverish spots on his cheeks.
Jack's great big feverish eyes lighted up with expectancy when he saw me; but when he perceived that my mother accompanied me, their expression changed to one of annoyance.
A moment of this feverish haste, and the lad bade her walk.
Amidst his feverish intrigues, he unceasingly sought to utilise all the qualities possessed by those whom God sent to him that might in any way be conducive to his own triumph.
The minutes went by slowly amidst all the feverish anxiety as to what might be occurring in the neighbouring room.
Meantime Pierre, erect against the parapet, in his tight black cassock, and with his bare feverish hands nervously clenched, was gazing before him with all his eyes, with all his soul.
And the road, too, became peopled: the chariots thundered, the armies tramped along, the people of Rome jostled him with the feverish agitation of great communities.
I hope and believe that I have not long to live, and that all my shame and misery, my obstinate wickedness, my guilty passion, will come to an end, like a long feverish dream.
No; by the rigid compression of the lips, by the feverish lustre in the eyes, by the faint hectic flush in the oval cheeks, by every outward sign of inward unrest, Olivia Arundel was not at peace!
Then he begged to be left alone with his mother; and, with his feverish hands clasped in hers, asked her the meaning of her black dress, and the reason why his young wife had not come to him.
The feverish light had faded out of her eyes, and they looked dim and heavy.
She neglected no duty; but she did all mechanically, scarcely knowing what she said or did in the feverish tumult of her soul.
The deepening circles about her eyes, the hollowing cheeks, and the feverish restlessness of manner which she could not always control, told how terrible the long struggle had become to her.
Is it for this I have heard her feeble wailing sounding in my wretched feverish slumbers, as I have heard it every night, since the day she left this house?
Heaven knows how often the girl had slept during those six dreary days; but herfeverish slumbers had brought her very little rest or refreshment.
I was all on fire with excitement at the thought of offering her a gift; my blood seemed to be turned to quicksilver, and to race through its channels with a feverish swiftness.
I was feverish and distressed of body, and tossed for long enough in my hammock, trying very hard to get to sleep; but, though I was tired as a dog, the grace of sleep would not come to me.
Then taking her in my arms, I kissed her in feverishhaste and tore myself from the enthralling lure of her presence.
To plan and prepare such a demonstration required more genuine invention than had the discovery of the process, but I set about the task with feverish enthusiasm.
It is all very wonderful," said Marguerite with a calm voice, but her eyes spoke the feverish excitement of a great adventure.
In haste I edged away and wandered on past endless gaming tables where men in feverish eagerness whirled wheels of chance, while garishly dressed girls leaned on their shoulders and hung about their necks.
Judith went day and night in a feverish attempt to get away from herself and her sorrows.
She made feverish haste to clear away and wash her dishes, that she might creep to her own room under the eaves.
Isabel Chester lay on the bed, white with anguish, but with a feverish heat burning in her eyes.
Mary, half doubting if this were not all feverish raving.
After this, Mary sat watching quite alone, for Mrs. Chester had muttered herself into a feverish sleep, and the house was in profound silence.
Up to my own room I rushed with feverish haste, full of impatience to be rid of the disguise I had worn so long.
I had scarcely finished my toilet when the rumbling of wheels in the court-yard outside made the hot blood rush to my face, and my heart beat with feverish excitement.
I rushed up the ascent with the feverish haste of a madman--I grasped the iron grating with both hands and shook it fiercely It was firm as a rock, locked fast.
Stella sat up among her tumbled pillows, with wide-opened wild eyes, feverish cheeks, and parted lips through which the breath came in quick, uneasy gasps.
Looking back on the incidents of those strange feverish weeks that preceded my wedding-day, they seemed to me like the dreams of a dying man.
I hurried all the preparations on with feverish precipitation.
I looked through the iron palisades with the feverish interest of one who watches the stage curtain rise on the last scene of a tragedy.
Let me see your hand again," she demanded, withfeverish eagerness, "the hand on which I placed the ring!
They may not unlikely ensure temporal success, and, in these days of feverish competition, this argument should not be overlooked.
For one brief view, this diseased soul saw realities thrusting their strong angles through the vague and feverish dreams that had usurped his life.
The space and motion outside and the waving boughs and vines had a quieting effect; yet she was in that state of feverish wakefulness wherein one can be quiet only in a position from which it is possible to start at any moment.
Her love and sympathy cheered him in his young and struggling days, when— “All feverish and glowing, He rushed up the rugged way panting to fame.
His mind was always working, yet there was no sign of a feverish head; the eyes were steady, and the close-cut gray hair grew so thick as to form a crown.
The most practised eye could not have detected the smallest trace of emotion, the least feverish excitement or agitation, on her commanding and noble countenance.
The young Senator had urged his boatmen to feverish speed, and his own gondola was far in advance of the train.
The young man was too proud to acknowledge the state of feverish suspense in which he had been, or the wonderful tumult suddenly produced in his mind.
Perhaps she was just a little sententious in her talk to the young preacher, who would have stared had anybody told him what active and feverish wretchedness was in her heart.
Kind Mrs. Tufton did not hear it, not being in any such state of feverish susceptibility.
He was giddy and feverish with that insufficient snatch of sleep which had lost him the time in which he might have been laying his plans.
But," he added with a sudden thought, "that may be a part of the poor child's feverish nonsense.
Remembering the feverish child of the morning, he looked at her in silent wonder.
I wished to warn you that one of her feverish ideas is that she doesn't want a doctor.
My own fault," said Jewel, speaking with feverish quickness and squeezing the doctor's hand.
Then my feverishanxiety to see the one or two persons in the world whom I loved became intense.
A feverish fear possessed me that I was yet in rear of the Confederate pickets.
If I wait till it gets warm, I will be able to escape the feverish month; and if you should be in Cincinnati at the Festival, or elsewhere, I would meet you anyhow or anywhere you say.
And my brain seems so full of dust and hot sun and feverish vapours that it is hard to write at all.
The prospect is dark as that of stormy summer night, with feverish pulses of lightning in the far sky-border,--the lightning signifying hopes and fantasies.
The fever actually appears to have a pulsation of graduated increase like that of a feverish vein.
He rose from his bed, and for the two days and three nights during which Cosmo was feverish and wandering, slept only in snatches.
Hour after hour her little transparent feverish hands would clutch his nervously, as she lay panting in his arms, or wander pitifully about his weather-worn face, her burning touch causing him to shiver to the very marrow of his bones.
He was hardly warm in the parish before he went into the allotment agitation with the feverish enthusiasm of inexperience, and he also had the temerity to start a school.
Thankful, with feverish alacrity, "the gentleman was most considerate.
The rest of the day passed like a feverish dream to Cyril, whose thoughts were of a very mingled nature.
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