calenture
Example Sentences
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That the man who had promised to marry her, had exhausted the vocabulary of love for her, should thus cast her off, struck her into a frantic calenture which, for a season, threatened her existence.
From The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts
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
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
The senses warred upon the wit; seized by calenture, one saw through radiant mists.
From The Whirlpool by George Gissing
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
