fever heat
AmericanEtymology
Origin of fever heat
First recorded in 1830–40
Example Sentences
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Public interest in him is at fever heat.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 5, 2021
Election campaigns will approach fever heat in September and October.
From Time Magazine Archive
I lay next to Peeta in the bag, trying to absorb every bit of his fever heat.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
Through the Saxon lines it ran and raised their spirits to fever heat.
From A Maid at King Alfred?s Court by Lucy Foster Madison
As we had five days to loaf in, before court set in, we went to work prospecting for gold, every body in the town being at fever heat over recent rich strikes.
From A Texas Cow Boy or, fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life by Chas. A. Siringo
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