Teddy began rummaging about among the cloth banners, littering the floor with all sorts of rubbish in his feverish efforts to get what he wanted.

In April 1944, the Germans started a feverish effort to recon and construct defensive positions against possible advances from the south.

We are engaged in the most determined, feverish effort to save Detroit.

There was no feverish effort this time.

In the spring of 1813, the Emperor was off again at the head of the army which by feverish efforts he had gathered and equipped.

Krivitsky was the first to tell Chambers of Stalin's feverish efforts to align with Hitler in 1939.

But I wonder whether the security people at Heathrow are still engaged in their feverish efforts to keep thermometers off airplanes.

Crews from Pacific Gas and Electric worked through the night in a feverish effort to restore power to the 120,000 customers affected.

In all these areas Sunday 20 March 1960 was a day of feverish effort and planning, and of a peculiar expectancy.

The residue of this nation's unresolved history continues to filter through the vents and ducts of our society, despite feverish efforts to seal them up.