calenture
Example Sentences
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But who will judge a man's constitution by the symptoms of calenture?
From St George's Cross by H. G. (Henry George) Keene
But one day they seemed to be his calenture also—the false picture of green fields and sweet female faces that rises before the eye of the sailor becalmed at sea.
From The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable by Sir Hall Caine
That the man who had promised to marry her, had exhausted the vocabulary of love for her, should thus cast her off, struck her into a frantic calenture which, for a season, threatened her existence.
From The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts
The evidence relative to yellow fever, or calenture, during this period in Virginia is contradictory.
From Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 by Thomas Proctor Hughes
"And that my experience was illusory, the result of vertigo, or some temporary calenture of the brain?"
From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by John Uri Lloyd
