calenture
Example Sentences
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But in this voyage I was extremely sick, being thrown into a violent calenture through the excessive heat, trading upon the coast from the latitude of fifteen degrees north, even to the line itself.
From The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801) by Defoe, Daniel
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
Love's calenture too well I understand; But sure your beauty is no fairy-land!
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 04 by Scott, Walter, Sir
This day likewise, I had a stroke of the sun, which occasioned a burning fever or calenture.
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
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