Example Sentences

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My hand, unfit before, Feeble still, but feverless, And which palpitates no more Save with a desire to bless, Blesses you, O little flies Of my black suns and white nights.

From Poems of Paul Verlaine by Brownell, Gertrude Hall

Then his eyelids rose; he looked with recognition at Lois, and moved a hand towards hers; and with a quiet sigh his eyes closed, not for death, but for blessed, feverless, breathing sleep.

From The Unknown Sea by Housman, Clemence

It fills one’s mouth with a gushing freshness—then goes down cool and feverless: then you do not feel it quarrelling with one’s liver....

From Life of John Keats by Rossetti, William Michael

Again, the totally feverless commencement of neuralgias, a character which is maintained throughout the progress of the milder cases, is entirely opposed to the idea of a direct connection between myelitis and neuralgia.

From Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Anstie, Francis E.