fever-fit

In the lower schools, to stimulate a real intellectual fever-fit, you need the very thing you don't have, namely, a lengthy preliminary intellectual training and some adult experience of life.

Bill Sweetland: Education in Chicago: Wringing The Passion Out Of Higher Learning 2009

Now when the Miscreants saw their Prince captive, a hot fever-fit of ignorance seized on them and they bore down upon the

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

His rage is not a fever-fit, but a black poison inflaming him, distorting his judgment, disturbing his rest, embittering his cup, gnawing at his pleasures, causing him more cruel suffering than ever he can inflict on his enemy.

Roundabout Papers 2006

Too weak to scrutinize thoroughly the mystery, I tried to settle it by saying it was a mistake, a dream, a fever-fit; and yet I knew there could be no mistake, and that I was not sleeping, and I believed I was sane.

Villette 2003

It was in the frenzy of a fever-fit, when I thought to die.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 Various

He was in a sort of hot-cold humor over it, in a fever-fit that had a way of turning into lassitude.

The Branding Iron Katharine Newlin Burt 1929

We may admit that originally the arrectores pili were slightly acted on in a direct manner, under the influence of rage and terror, by the disturbance of the nervous system; as is undoubtedly the case with our so-called goose-skin before a fever-fit.

The expression of the emotions in man and animals 1898

We see the same action in our own goose-skin during the chill before a fever-fit.

The expression of the emotions in man and animals 1898

What is a fever-fit, that we should not endure it patiently, in order to get rid of it easily? ''

The Talisman 1894

They bear to the former the analogy, as we may say, which a sudden and temporary fever-fit has to a serious feverish illness.

Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft 1885