calenture

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Four more officers died, and most of Ralegh's personal servants, so that, though he was himself suffering from a severe calenture, he was attended only by pages.

From Great Ralegh by Selincourt, Hugh de

The ailment was influenza, and he called it a calenture.

From The Path of the King by Buchan, John

And for that lethargy was there no cure, But to be cast into a calenture?

From Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham by Denham, John, Sir

While moored here, Joseph Gabriel, the Chilian, who stole the Indian king's daughter, died of a malignant calenture.

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter

And us wi' scarce any water and half on us rotten wi' scurvy or calenture, an' no luck this cruise, neither!

From Martin Conisby's Vengeance by Farnol, Jeffery