calenture
Example Sentences
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This day likewise, I had a stroke of the sun, which occasioned a burning fever or calenture.
A calenture is a form of fever at sea in which the sufferer believes himself to be surrounded by green fields, and often leaps overboard.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary
The ailment was influenza, and he called it a calenture.
From The Path of the King by Buchan, John
The senses warred upon the wit; seized by calenture, one saw through radiant mists.
From The Whirlpool by Gissing, George
Carlisle was there seated in the shade of a giant palm, watching the drilling of a yet weak and staggering company whose very memory that burning calenture had enfeebled.
From Sir Mortimer by Johnston, Mary
