The child has a virulent typhus fever, and our chief care must be to prevent the brain from being affected.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse
But the followers were, as often happens, less virulent than their leaders; and months after this the sight might have been witnessed in Belfast of Ulster Volunteers and Irish Volunteers using the same drill ground through the good offices of a tolerant Ulsterman: and though the Ulster Volunteers were prepared undoubtedly to fight for their privileges, some of the most vicious appeals to their passions and their prejudices came from men who were not of the Ulster, not even of the Irish, blood.
"The Evolution of Sinn Fein"
Robert Mitchell Henry
Sid, whose overwhelming ambition was to make the first eleven and aid in defeating Hammond, had hero worship in its most virulent form.
"The Crimson Sweater"
Ralph Henry Barbour