calenture

Example Sentences

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The senses warred upon the wit; seized by calenture, one saw through radiant mists.

From The Whirlpool by Gissing, George

“Too old!”–His calenture ceased suddenly; there was a tug on his fishing line.

From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Blunden, Edmund

But who will judge a man's constitution by the symptoms of calenture?

From St George's Cross by Keene, H. G. (Henry George)

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

From The Path of the King by Buchan, John

One finds instead a sort of violent fever and calenture which not merely deflects, as any emotion may, but totally inhibits the rational operations of the mind.

From The World in Chains Some Aspects of War and Trade by Mavrogordato, John