calenture
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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
And for that lethargy was there no cure, But to be cast into a calenture?
From Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham by Sir John Denham
And for that lethargy was there no care, But to be cast into a calenture?
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
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
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
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