calenture

Example Sentences

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What to do? you already know that her betrothed, Señor Santillo de Santayana, is dead a year ago of a calenture.

From Rita by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)

“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

They seemed to me to have nothing more than calenture, brought on by overwork, a malarious atmosphere, and a bad sanitary environment.

From Campaigning in Cuba by Kennan, George

To make matters worse, the captain again fell sick of a kind of calenture, and took to his bed.

From Palm Tree Island by Strang, Herbert

But one day they seemed to be his calenture also—the false picture of green fields and sweet female faces that rises before the eye of the sailor becalmed at sea.

From The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable by Caine, Hall, Sir