calenture

Example Sentences

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The evidence relative to yellow fever, or calenture, during this period in Virginia is contradictory.

From Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 by Hughes, Thomas Proctor

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)

The ailment was influenza, and he called it a calenture.

From The Path of the King by Buchan, John

To make matters worse, the captain again fell sick of a kind of calenture, and took to his bed.

From Palm Tree Island by Strang, Herbert

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