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
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
Carlisle was there seated in the shade of a giant palm, watching the drilling of a yet weak and staggering company whose very memory that burning calenture had enfeebled.
From Sir Mortimer by Mary Johnston
And us wi' scarce any water and half on us rotten wi' scurvy or calenture, an' no luck this cruise, neither!
From Martin Conisby's Vengeance by Jeffery Farnol
Might he not urge in his excuse, to cloak him from his own and the world's contempt, some unsuspected calenture, for which, had he known, he ought to have taken medical advice?
From Our Friend the Charlatan by George Gissing
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