calenture

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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 Farnol, Jeffery

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 Selincourt, Hugh de

In this distress we had, besides the terror of the storm, one of our men die of the calenture, and one man and the boy washed overboard.

From The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites by Tappan, Eva March

But in this voyage I was extremely sick, being thrown into a violent calenture through the excessive heat, trading upon the coast from the latitude of fifteen degrees north, even to the line itself.

From The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801) by Defoe, Daniel

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 Denham, John, Sir