calenture
Example Sentences
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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
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 John Mavrogordato
To make matters worse, the captain again fell sick of a kind of calenture, and took to his bed.
From Palm Tree Island by Herbert Strang
But in this voyage I was extremely sick, being thrown into a violent calenture through the excessive heat, trading upon the coast from the latitude of fifteen degrees north, even to the line itself.
From The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801) by Daniel Defoe
The senses warred upon the wit; seized by calenture, one saw through radiant mists.
From The Whirlpool by George Gissing
