calenture
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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
While moored here, Joseph Gabriel, the Chilian, who stole the Indian king's daughter, died of a malignant calenture.
From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Walter Thornbury
But one day they seemed to be his calenture also—the false picture of green fields and sweet female faces that rises before the eye of the sailor becalmed at sea.
From The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable by Sir Hall Caine
What to do? you already know that her betrothed, Señor Santillo de Santayana, is dead a year ago of a calenture.
From Rita by Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze) Barry
X. has one good story, and with that I leave him, wishing him with all my heart that little inland farm at last which is his calenture as he paces the windy deck.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) by Marshall Pinckney Wilder
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