"Calenture" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... former coming was to cure My soul's most desp'rate calenture; Thy second advent, that must be To heal my ...
— The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 • Robert Herrick
... we had, besides the terror of the storm, one of our men die of the calenture, and one man and the boy washed overboard. About the twelfth day, the weather abating a little, the master made an observation as well as he could, and found that he was in about eleven degrees north latitude, but that he was twenty-two degrees of ...
— The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites • Eva March Tappan
... this voyage I had my misfortunes too; particularly, that I was continually sick, being thrown into a violent calenture by the excessive heat of the climate; our principal trading being upon the coast, from the latitude of 15 degrees north ...
— The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808) • Daniel Defoe
... distress we had, besides the terror of the storm, one of our men die of the calenture, and a man and a boy washed overboard. About the twelfth day, the weather abating a little, the master made an observation as well as he could, and found that he was in about eleven degrees of north latitude, but that he was twenty-two degrees of longitude ...
— The Junior Classics, V5 • Edited by William Patten |
