calenture
Example Sentences
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"And that my experience was illusory, the result of vertigo, or some temporary calenture of the brain?"
From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by John Uri Lloyd
The evidence relative to yellow fever, or calenture, during this period in Virginia is contradictory.
From Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 by Thomas Proctor Hughes
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
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
He who held command that lamentable day was Captain--now Sir Mortimer--Ferne; for I, who was Admiral of the expedition, must lie in my cabin, ill almost unto death of a calenture.
From Sir Mortimer by Mary Johnston
