What is "feverishly"

Usage examples of "feverishly".

I was in the bakery, feverishly turning out whatever-took-the-least-time to feed the extra people, but I heard the commotion and Mary put her head in long enough to tell me what was going on.

Jack Bedell worked feverishly, with a continuous vision-phone connection to the Astrophysical Institute.

The cicalas were chirping their loudest, the strident noise trembling feverishly in the hot air.

Svor was ever willing to postulate rascalry and conspiracies without foundation, simply because his own feverishly intense mind wheeled eternally in such devious circles.

He was a slender, weazened man, nervous, irritable, high-strung, and anaemic--a typical child of the gutter, with unbeautiful twisted features, small-eyed, with face and mouth perpetually and feverishly hungry, brutish in a cat-like way, stamped to the core with degeneracy.

For even when coming into slight contact with the outer, vapory shreds of the jet, which will often happen, your skin will feverishly smart, from the acridness of the thing so touching it.

Launching himself to his hobbled feet, Colin fumbled in his pocket for his flute and feverishly tried to think of a wolvish lullaby.

In the consulting-room Dr Mannet worked feverishly on his trousers and donned a white lab coat to cover the havoc Jessica had provoked.

Radcliffe and Lewis are fair game for the parodist, but it would be difficult to find a false note in the feverishly intensified action and high atmospheric tension of the Irishman whose less sophisticated emotions and strain of Celtic mysticism gave him the finest possible natural equipment for his task.

Alyeska employees had been working feverishly during that time to clean up and minimize the effects of the accident, to remove the evidence of a major spillage and to conceal the fact that their failsafe system had failed dangerously.

The driver drove very slowly, nodding feverishly at Stok every now and again.

Feverishly, Pointer Trame yanked open the middle drawer and found his revolver, hoping to join the fray.

He was a slender, weazened man, nervous, irritable, high-strung, and anaemic--a typical child of the gutter, with unbeautiful twisted features, small eyes, with face and mouth perpetually and feverishly hungry, brutish in a catlike way, stamped to the core with degeneracy.

The Bajans danced feverishly to a chorus of drums that was unlike anything Isobel had ever heard.

But soon she was making pots of tea, dredging up dustcloths and bottles of Windex, and feverishly running the vacuum cleaner.