calenture

Example Sentences

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The fervency of his resolve not to leave England called up as in a calenture the lands that he was not to travel, the freedom that was not to be his.

From The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) by Sinclair, May

In this distress we had, besides the terror of the storm, one of our men die of the calenture, and one man and the boy washed overboard.

From The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites by Tappan, Eva March

This day likewise, I had a stroke of the sun, which occasioned a burning fever or calenture.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 04 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

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

From The Path of the King by Buchan, John

He who held command that lamentable day was Captain--now Sir Mortimer--Ferne; for I, who was Admiral of the expedition, must lie in my cabin, ill almost unto death of a calenture.

From Sir Mortimer by Johnston, Mary