Then there is the window, opening right down to the floor, from which, if it please you, you may study the activity of the roofless ant-hill beneath, the restless febrility of West End London.
"The Sins of Séverac Bablon"
Sax Rohmer
But are not these excrescences symptoms of a fever lying within our modern civilisation, a febrility which is going to make achievement of great ends and great work more difficult?
"Another Sheaf"
John Galsworthy
This modern febrility does not seem able to attack the real inner man.
"Another Sheaf"
John Galsworthy