singing-fever

Updated: June 23, 2025

"I wonder if he'd fight, though, when the singing-fever was off him." He took Elsley upstairs into his bed-room, got him washed and shaved: and sent out the woman of the house for mutton chops and stout, and began himself setting out the luncheon table, while Elsley in the room within chanted to himself snatches of poetry. "The notion has taken: he's composing a war song already, I believe."

Charles Kingsley - Two Years Ago, Volume II.