calenture
Example Sentences
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“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
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
But who will judge a man's constitution by the symptoms of calenture?
From St George's Cross by Keene, H. G. (Henry George)
He who held command that lamentable day was Captain--now Sir Mortimer--Ferne; for I, who was Admiral of the expedition, must lie in my cabin, ill almost unto death of a calenture.
From Sir Mortimer by Johnston, Mary
Might he not urge in his excuse, to cloak him from his own and the world's contempt, some unsuspected calenture, for which, had he known, he ought to have taken medical advice?
From Our Friend the Charlatan by Gissing, George
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.