febrility

As Bulgakov, Jennings is reed-like, glistening with anxiety: the embodiment of febrility and ill-fated aspiration.

Collaborators; Three Days in May; His Teeth – review 2011

But negotiations need to be carried out without the added febrility of unconnected actions.

Six takes on the wildcat strikes 2009

Then there is the window, opening right down to the floor, from which, if it please you, you may study the activity of the roofless ant-hill beneath, the restless febrility of West End London.

The Sins of Séverac Bablon Sax Rohmer 1921

Michelet, but with the difference of febrility to the potent discharge of power.

Initiation into Literature ��mile Faguet 1881

At the same time the Stock Market exhibited tokens of excessive febrility, New York Central dropping twenty-three per cent. and

Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City James Dabney McCabe 1862

There has been an improvement in a context of febrility which naturally needs to be underlined.

Reuters: Press Release 2011

In a sign of the febrility of the public mood, many beach-goers apparently mistook the air raid sirens for a genuine Iranian attack and fled in panic for their cars.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011

The volatility and febrility of the piece demands such flexibility from every section, not least the strings, and Bychkov miraculously had them achieving a lightness of touch and quickness of response that was tantamount to producing a sleek sports car from a juggernaut.

The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

Her peaceable kingdom ” where birds and moths and small mammals lie down with oil tycoons and lumber barons, and dainty bathroom fixtures and lovely things to eat and lawn dresses and eugenics and God and fringed gentians are all mixed up together ” is the product of an imagination of an almost life-threatening febrility.

Catacomb Efreet 2009

Clare’s cheeks were flushed; there was febrility in her whole manner and appearance.

Over the River 2004