calenture
Example Sentences
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"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
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
At three o'clock on the night of Tuesday, July 26, I awoke in a chill, and before morning I had all the symptoms of calenture, with a temperature of 104.
From Campaigning in Cuba by George Kennan
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
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
