Down below the last of the feverish preparations ended, and people retreated behind their barricades of stone.

The underground retreat was once more a place of ordered, feverish preparation.

He has gathered together just about all the support he's going to get, and the feverish preparations he's been making are about to draw to completion.

Now, after months of escalating tension and feverish preparations for war, the blow had fallen.

The remainder of the time I spent in making feverish preparations for arriving and seeing my dear comrades.

There followed several weeks of feverish preparations as equipment and systems were installed and staff moved in to the facility.

He watched the feverish preparations, hoping the converted gunships could be flying within two hours.

Vandivier and his shipmates began feverish preparations to meet an expected Japanese thrust at Midway Island.

The schools are in varying stages of development, but board approval has set off feverish preparations everywhere.

I cannot understand these feverish preparations, since we have ratified between us treaties which make such works redundant.