It took Martin a long time to get to sleep and even when he did he turned and twisted in feverish attempts to escape the nightmarish pursuit of red, glaring eyes and enormous yellow teeth.

I think that my tone struck his conscience, for he made a few feverish attempts at conversation after that.

Random thoughts are the only thoughts left to anyone who has spent two sleepless weeks here, making feverish, futile attempts to keep up with the dozens of films that are shown every day.

Men whose lives were filled with the feverish attempts of other people to get money from them were not likely to stay unaffected by those attempts.

And yet he was miserable - she could see that, too - the merriment and the jesting were a feverish attempt to hide how unhappy he was.

After supposedly feverish attempts to reach me they just so happen to contact me before the election.

Willie debated the idea of ripping off the plaster and making a feverish attempt to bribe Rosita.

Teatime looked back to Sideney, who started prodding at the fourth lock again in a feverish attempt not to die.

Then, in his feverish attempts to free the hostages in the Middle East, Mr. Reagan became mired in the Iran-contra affair.

One's heart aches for these young people caught by the outside glitter of city gayety, who make such a feverish attempt to snatch it for themselves.