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The hard-worked, fever-stricken missionaries stuck doggedly to their task, at times despairing, and looking forward for some special manifestation, some outburst of Pentecostal fire that would bring a glorious harvest of souls.
THE WHALE TOOTH 2010
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Even the dim light of the fire seemed too bright for his fever-stricken eyes.
Renegade's Magic Hobb, Robin 2008
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When Hubert in the Bolivian wilds had lain fever-stricken, listening to the cry of the loon, had He sent an angel with quinine?
Maid in Waiting 2004
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Nothing is right, nothing pleases the fever-stricken victim.
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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There she beheld her Evelyn lying fever-stricken and motionless.
The Last Man 2003
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They are talking of making Buea into a sanatorium for the fever-stricken.
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One reason for this is doubtless that the few people in fever-stricken, over-worked West Africa who are able to go up mountains, naturally try for the adjacent Big Cameroon; the other reason is that Mungo Mah Etindeh, to which Burton refers as
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He was an old fever-stricken creature, more like a grasshopper than a human being, and dressed in a few square inches of dingy rag.
Burmese Days 2002
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In the bloodstained cabin, amid the weeping and shrieking of women, the wailing of the fever-stricken, and the curses and groans of the dying combatants, Chandler, bathed in a baptism of blood, and Maud, flushed and fainting with what had transpired, sprang or rather tottered and fell into each other's arms.
THE PLAGUE SHIP 1993
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He would never forget the change he saw in their faces when those still fit enough to work the fields came back to camp to find their fever-stricken playmates on the road to full recovery.
WARCHILD ESTHER FRIESNER 1990
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