1865 — T. A. B. Spratt, Travels and Researchs in Crete, Volume II, John Van Voorst (1865), page 24:
The miserable and befevered village of Fotia, containing about a dozen houses, stands in about the middle of the site, between the acropolis and the chapel; and it derives its proverbial insalubrity from the stagnation of the Lethæus in a marsh in front of it to the east, just before its escape through the contracted valley passing beneath the acropolis of Phæstus and communicating with the maritime plain of Debaki.
1878 — George Dennis, The Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria, John Murray (1878), page 236:
The place is squalid beyond description, almost in utter ruin, desolated in summer by malaria, and at no time containing more that some hundred and fifty befevered souls […]
Befevered as I was, I bounded from my seat, seized him, dragged him into his seat, and defied him to move.
1904 — John Worrell Northrop, Chronicles from the Diary of a War Prisoner in Andersonville and Other Military Prisons of the South in 1864, self-published (1904), page 118:
Nor pangs of pain and heavy langour
That press and sickening fill
My body, thin my blood, shade my brain
With clouds of squalid gloom, like miasmatic mists
That haunted befevered vales;
1939 — Ben Arid (pseudonym of Melville Clemens Barnard), Putting "It" in the Column, De Vorss & Co. (1939), page 85:
Indeed, I am convinced that there is no microbe or germ, however tough and wicked he may be, that could survive the repeated shocks upon his armor of a series of deep, lusty guffaws deftly produced by the skilled medico in the heart cockles of his befevered patient!
1977 — The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, 1822 to 1852, Johns Hopkins University Press (1977), →ISBN, page 184:
And then Hurrah for blue water, & if ever a poor beshaken & befevered set of fellows could send home their topsails nimbly, we shall, for everyone thinks that he shall recover his strength & spirits & be somewhat less certain of being on the sick in course of a week.
2001 — William T. Vollmann, Argall: The True Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith, Penguin (2002), →ISBN, page 285:
See John Smith swollen & befevered, his teeth clinking and rattling unto the iron plates on his brigandine vest.
2004 — May 13, Christopher Lloyd & Joe Keenan, "Goodnight, Seattle", episodes 11-23/24 of Frasier, 00:08:16-00:08:30:
Frasier Crane: Use it in a sentence. Charlotte Connor: Her grandmother's bed was warm and quilty. Frasier Crane: And why is she lying there? Because she's feeling all "befevered" again?
