She worked feverishly. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a feverish excitement. From Dictionary.com.
She called feverishly for the office, but the reply was, "They do not answer.". From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
A hubbub rose; men called feverishly for drink to help them forget they had been overcome. From Wordnik.com. [A Body In The Bath House]
They tell me they're working feverishly and in television when we work feverishly, that is something to behold. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2004] Reference
"One thing -- one thing only," feverishly -- "that I hope I shall never see you again!". From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
"But I like you," feverishly, "I like you, tremendously, and don't you want to marry me, Randy?". From Wordnik.com. [The Trumpeter Swan] Reference
Yes, yes, "feverishly," I will write to him and tell him. From Wordnik.com. [Vagabondia 1884] Reference
"You must recollect," feverishly, "that I have made you no promise. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
He runs the biggest, most feverishly expanding video chain. From Wordnik.com. [The Newsweek 100] Reference
One evening, I got a feverishly excited phone call from my dad. From Wordnik.com. [Chloe Spencer: How to Walk on Fire And Not Get Burned] Reference
Her eyes were feverishly brilliant in her white, shrunken face. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
He's been feverishly negotiating with lenders to stave off default. From Wordnik.com. [Borrowers Are Out In the Cold] Reference
Earlier in 2001, Enron's brass had feverishly unloaded company stock. From Wordnik.com. [Lights Out: Enron's Failed Power Play] Reference
Gillis, 25, has been gaining fame for his feverishly inventive creations. From Wordnik.com. [Politics and Hip-Hop Are Doing a Mash-Up] Reference
Locals nicknamed her Alex and feverishly debated the whale's gender for weeks. From Wordnik.com. [A Whale's Journey Down Under] Reference
Beating the horse's flanks feverishly, they made that last turn into the home stretch. From Wordnik.com. [Morning Promise] Reference
Betty was tracing her lips with that cherry red lipstick, counting tribbles feverishly. From Wordnik.com. [Hat Shop Girls] Reference
The two feverishly charted the ups and downs of Lewinsky's purported romance with Clinton. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter's Secrets] Reference
As Seward awoke in a start and turned feverishly away, his daughter leapt upon Paine's back. From Wordnik.com. [The Night Lincoln Died] Reference
Fernando Meirelles's extremely violent and feverishly stylish movie is not for the squeamish. From Wordnik.com. [The Talk Of Toronto] Reference
They "feverishly sold bonds ... knitted clothes, and gave gifts to soldiers," writes Keyssar. From Wordnik.com. [A CLOSE VOTE? LET'S HOPE NOT.] Reference
Department of Agriculture are working feverishly to come up with a new chemical to kill the buggers. From Wordnik.com. [Bed bugs: Be very afraid! Because we tell you to be.] Reference
And that has caused many companies to drop coverage for retirees while others feverishly cut benefits. From Wordnik.com. [Who Should Pay For Health Benefits?] Reference
Or, if they have a second term, they worry even more feverishly about what posterity will think of them. From Wordnik.com. [Is Afghanistan Obama's Legacy? (New York Review)] Reference
The man had aged visibly, and his face was worn and lined, the eyes burning feverishly in their sockets. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
Earlier this year, Samantha, 25, had been feverishly applying for summer internships on Wall Street to no avail. From Wordnik.com. [Flirting Your Way To The Corner Office] Reference
When her son, Dov, was diagnosed with autism at 21 months, Iversen feverishly hunted for information about the disease. From Wordnik.com. [Finding A Web Of Support] Reference
Meanwhile, other software makers are also feverishly working on new operating systems that will do all the work for us. From Wordnik.com. [Eyes On The Future] Reference
Kathy Pahanish, who owns a travel agency in Boardman, Ohio, worked feverishly to arrange a New York tour for late October. From Wordnik.com. [Nearly Six Months Later] Reference
Over the past half-decade they have lobbied feverishly for their country to be accepted internationally as a nuclear power. From Wordnik.com. [Bushehr And The Bomb] Reference
Several of the House "" managers '' chosen to prosecute the president were feverishly scheming to dish new dirt into the record. From Wordnik.com. [Why Clinton Won] Reference
Warren or no Warren, dozens of Treasury employees are already working feverishly to get the new bureau up and running within a year. From Wordnik.com. [Warren's latest buzz: Maybe 'interim director' of consumer bureau] Reference
And Tom Swift began to work feverishly, while his ship rushed on through the night in danger, every moment, of being blown to atoms. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight; or, on the border for Uncle Sam] Reference
Now, Keenen was feverishly trying to get his shots completed while his brother Marlon was holed up in his trailer, rewriting dialogue. From Wordnik.com. [Scared Silly] Reference
While feverishly sifting through the inventory and driving the sales people crazy, I noticed that the tags mentioned copyright protection. From Wordnik.com. [Alex Geana: Let Fashion Week Begin] Reference
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