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n. - A rise in the temperature of the body.

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  • But negotiations need to be carried out without the added febrility of unconnected actions.
  • Michelet, but with the difference of febrility to the potent discharge of power.
  • At the same time the Stock Market exhibited tokens of excessive febrility, New York Central dropping twenty-three per cent. and
  • 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...
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