calenture

Example Sentences

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In this distress we had, besides the terror of the storm, one of our men die of the calenture, and one man and the boy washed overboard.

From The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites by Tappan, Eva March

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

“Too old!”–His calenture ceased suddenly; there was a tug on his fishing line.

From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Blunden, Edmund

Yellow fever and calenture broke out among the troops in camp around Santiago about the same time that they appeared in Siboney.

From Campaigning in Cuba by Kennan, George

Sweetheart, I can write unto you but with a weak hand, for I have suffered the most violent calenture for fifteen days that ever man did and lived.

From Great Ralegh by Selincourt, Hugh de