Enfevered

Alongside the real, material Rome, a parallel, mental Rome, or a succession of such Romes, has long enfevered the brains of pontiffs and panjandrums. ❋ Dan Hofstadter (2011)

From a thousand schemes for revenge he had chosen the most frightful and ignoble that a brain maddened and enfevered by hatred could possibly conceive. ❋ �mile Gaboriau (2003)

Don Julián, wounded and enfevered, now at last believes the worst. ❋ Clayton Hamilton (N/A)

Her enfevered senses had come to perceive in the conventionally clothed and spoken figure of the young attorney, a concentration of the repugnant things before which she cowered. ❋ Ben Hecht (1929)

The spirit and the message of the season (as they communicated themselves to him) began, as opiate among enfevered senses, to steal about his thoughts. ❋ Unknown (1925)

The pure and fine essential qualities of the voices, the dizzying harmonies, the fugal calls and responses, the strange relief of the unisons, and above all the free, natural mien of the singers, proudly aware that they were producing something beautiful that could not be produced more beautifully, conscious of unchallenged supremacy, -- all this enfevered him to an unprecedented and self-astonished enthusiasm. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)

The rest of the ride was an enfevered phantasmagoria. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)

Their painful awakening was enfevered by the thought; a final agitation arose amidst the morning discomfort, as the abominable sufferings began afresh. ❋ ��mile Zola (1871)

Meanwhile, out-of-doors, you could hear the stamping and roaring of the crowd, goaded into a frenzy by repeated hymns, enfevered by its earnest desire for the Divine interposition, and growing more and more enervated by the delay. ❋ ��mile Zola (1871)

His eyes were enfevered and his lips dry and cracked. ❋ Alexandre Dumas Fils (1859)