calenture

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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

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

From The Whirlpool by Gissing, George

"And that my experience was illusory, the result of vertigo, or some temporary calenture of the brain?"

From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by Lloyd, John Uri

The ailment was influenza, and he called it a calenture.

From The Path of the King by Buchan, John

While moored here, Joseph Gabriel, the Chilian, who stole the Indian king's daughter, died of a malignant calenture.

From The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers by Thornbury, Walter