calenture

Example Sentences

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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

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)

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

The senses warred upon the wit; seized by calenture, one saw through radiant mists.

From The Whirlpool by Gissing, George