calenture

Example Sentences

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The senses warred upon the wit; seized by calenture, one saw through radiant mists.

From The Whirlpool by Gissing, George

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 Kennan, George

The evidence relative to yellow fever, or calenture, during this period in Virginia is contradictory.

From Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 by Hughes, Thomas Proctor

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 Caine, Hall, Sir

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