calenture
Example Sentences
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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
Yellow fever and calenture broke out among the troops in camp around Santiago about the same time that they appeared in Siboney.
From Campaigning in Cuba by George Kennan
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 Sir Walter Scott
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
Four more officers died, and most of Ralegh's personal servants, so that, though he was himself suffering from a severe calenture, he was attended only by pages.
From Great Ralegh by Hugh de Selincourt
