calenture
Example Sentences
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In this distress we had, besides the terror of the storm, one of our men die of the calenture, and one man and the boy washed overboard.
From The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites by Tappan, Eva March
The fervency of his resolve not to leave England called up as in a calenture the lands that he was not to travel, the freedom that was not to be his.
From The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) by Sinclair, May
X. has one good story, and with that I leave him, wishing him with all my heart that little inland farm at last which is his calenture as he paces the windy deck.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
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
This day likewise, I had a stroke of the sun, which occasioned a burning fever or calenture.
