calenture

Example Sentences

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“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

And us wi' scarce any water and half on us rotten wi' scurvy or calenture, an' no luck this cruise, neither!

From Martin Conisby's Vengeance by Farnol, Jeffery

And for that lethargy was there no care, But to be cast into a calenture?

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

But in this voyage I was extremely sick, being thrown into a violent calenture through the excessive heat, trading upon the coast from the latitude of fifteen degrees north, even to the line itself.

From The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801) by Defoe, Daniel

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