fever-stricken

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

Even the dim light of the fire seemed too bright for his fever-stricken eyes.

Renegade's Magic Hobb, Robin 2008

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

Nothing is right, nothing pleases the fever-stricken victim.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

There she beheld her Evelyn lying fever-stricken and motionless.

The Last Man 2003

They are talking of making Buea into a sanatorium for the fever-stricken.

Travels in West Africa 2003

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

Travels in West Africa 2003

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

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

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