calenture

Example Sentences

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One finds instead a sort of violent fever and calenture which not merely deflects, as any emotion may, but totally inhibits the rational operations of the mind.

From The World in Chains Some Aspects of War and Trade by Mavrogordato, John

At three o'clock on the night of Tuesday, July 26, I awoke in a chill, and before morning I had all the symptoms of calenture, with a temperature of 104.

From Campaigning in Cuba by Kennan, George

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 Selincourt, Hugh de

“Too old!”–His calenture ceased suddenly; there was a tug on his fishing line.

From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Blunden, Edmund

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

From The Whirlpool by Gissing, George