Thus in the word calenture, nobody will deny that the first syllable is pronounced more emphatically than the others; but many will deny that it is longer in pronunciation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miscellany] Reference

English naval officers, amongst whom two fell victims to mangrove-oysters, and the rest to the deadly "calenture" of the lower Congo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [The World in Chains Some Aspects of War and Trade] Reference

The ailment was influenza, and he called it a calenture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of the King] Reference

But who will judge a man's constitution by the symptoms of calenture?.    From Wordnik.com.  [St George's Cross] Reference

La Serena "which produced in him a calenture or malignant fever, and a hiccough.".    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien.] Reference

The senses warred upon the wit; seized by calenture, one saw through radiant mists.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Whirlpool] Reference

It's hot going under the line there, the calenture < 56 > of the soul is a most miserable madness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Noble Spanish Soldier] Reference

What to do? you already know that her betrothed, Señor Santillo de Santayana, is dead a year ago of a calenture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rita] Reference

He would relate instances where, after some months 'lonely scoutings, the Indian-hater is suddenly seized with a sort of calenture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confidence-Man] Reference

In this diftrefs we had, beiides the terror of a ilorm, one of our men died of the calenture, and a man and a boy wa/hcd over-board.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe ...: With an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts ...] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites] Reference

In this distress, we had, besides the terror of the storm, one of our men died of the calenture, and one man and a boy washed overboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe of York, Mariner, Volume 1 With an Account of His Travels Round Three Parts of the Globe, Written By Himself, in Two Volumes] Reference

In this distress we had, besides the terror of the storm, one of our men died of the calenture, and one man and the boy washed overboard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robinson Crusoe]

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 Wordnik.com.  [The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson)] Reference

But one day they seemed to be his calenture also -- the false picture of green fields and sweet female faces that rises before the eye of the sailor becalmed at sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [Sir Mortimer] Reference

A mild fit of calenture seizes him, in which he deems that the ground so far below, is on a level with the tower, and would as lief walk off the tower into the air as not.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of Edwin Drood] Reference

Might he not urge in his excuse, to cloak him from his own and the world's contempt, some unsuspected calenture, for which, had he known, he ought to have taken medical advice?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Friend the Charlatan] Reference

"And us wi 'scarce any water and half on us rotten wi' scurvy or calenture, an 'no luck this cruise, neither!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Conisby's Vengeance] Reference

The sensation was so strong as to resemble what is called the mirage in the desert and a calenture on board ship. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga] Reference

I needs a calenture must shun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference

But to be cast into a calenture?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)] Reference

But to be cast into a calenture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paras. 200-224] Reference

My soul's most desp'rate calenture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2] Reference

'Tis but the raging calenture of love.    From Wordnik.com.  [The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 04] Reference

Our cares, and cool the calenture of love.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland]

What is that impulse but a perpetual calenture?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference

But to be caft into a calenture?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical] Reference

“calenture” of the lower Congo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference

So, by a calenture misled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1] Reference

"So, by a calenture misled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry] Reference

3. the triffids - calenture.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

'To (hun the calenture of fultry fltics.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady's Poetical Magazine, Or, Beauties of British Poetry] Reference