calenture
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But who will judge a man's constitution by the symptoms of calenture?
From St George's Cross by H. G. (Henry George) Keene
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
Four more officers died, and most of Ralegh's personal servants, so that, though he was himself suffering from a severe calenture, he was attended only by pages.
From Great Ralegh by Hugh de Selincourt
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 Sir Hall Caine
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 Hugh de Selincourt
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