calenture
Example Sentences
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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 May Sinclair
What to do? you already know that her betrothed, Señor Santillo de Santayana, is dead a year ago of a calenture.
From Rita by Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze) Barry
This day likewise, I had a stroke of the sun, which occasioned a burning fever or calenture.
Sweetheart, I can write unto you but with a weak hand, for I have suffered the most violent calenture for fifteen days that ever man did and lived.
From Great Ralegh by Hugh de Selincourt
The ailment was influenza, and he called it a calenture.
From The Path of the King by John Buchan
