calenture
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Yellow fever and calenture broke out among the troops in camp around Santiago about the same time that they appeared in Siboney.
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
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 Sir John Denham
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
The senses warred upon the wit; seized by calenture, one saw through radiant mists.
From The Whirlpool by George Gissing
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