calenture
Example Sentences
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At three o'clock on the night of Tuesday, July 26, I awoke in a chill, and before morning I had all the symptoms of calenture, with a temperature of 104.
From Campaigning in Cuba by Kennan, George
That the man who had promised to marry her, had exhausted the vocabulary of love for her, should thus cast her off, struck her into a frantic calenture which, for a season, threatened her existence.
From The Spinners by Phillpotts, Eden
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
And for that lethargy was there no care, But to be cast into a calenture?
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
This day likewise, I had a stroke of the sun, which occasioned a burning fever or calenture.
