calenture
Example Sentences
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The senses warred upon the wit; seized by calenture, one saw through radiant mists.
From The Whirlpool by George Gissing
The ailment was influenza, and he called it a calenture.
From The Path of the King by John Buchan
"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 John Uri Lloyd
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
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 George Kennan
