calenture

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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 Johnston, Mary

To make matters worse, the captain again fell sick of a kind of calenture, and took to his bed.

From Palm Tree Island by Strang, Herbert

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

Might he not urge in his excuse, to cloak him from his own and the world's contempt, some unsuspected calenture, for which, had he known, he ought to have taken medical advice?

From Our Friend the Charlatan by Gissing, George

But who will judge a man's constitution by the symptoms of calenture?

From St George's Cross by Keene, H. G. (Henry George)