calenture
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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
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
A calenture is a form of fever at sea in which the sufferer believes himself to be surrounded by green fields, and often leaps overboard.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Mary Lamb
The ailment was influenza, and he called it a calenture.
From The Path of the King by John Buchan
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
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