calentura

Yea, many of them were much decayed in their memory, insomuch that it was grown an ordinary judgment, when one was heard to speak foolishly, to say he had been sick of the calentura, which is the Spanish name of their burning ague; for, as I told you before, it is a very burning and pestilent ague.

Drake’s Great Armada 1909

The American begged the illustrious secretary to excuse the absence of Mrs. Goodwin, who was suffering, he said, from a headache brought on by a slight calentura.

Cabbages and Kings 1904

Days afterward, when the tropic _calentura_ had cooled in his veins, the disordered fragments he had spoken were completed in shape and sequence.

Roads of Destiny O. Henry 1886

Five years before he had pulled the professor through a very bad attack of the calentura in

The Romance of Golden Star ... George Chetwynd Griffith 1881

I found, when my pains and calentura had gone, that the deck, now as white as a shark's tooth from seas washing over it, had been swept of everything movable.

Sailing Alone Around the World Joshua Slocum 1877

I made shift to spread a mattress and lie on that instead of the hard floor, my eyes all the while fastened on my strange guest, who, remarking again that I would have "only pains and calentura," chuckled as he chanted a wild song:

Sailing Alone Around the World Joshua Slocum 1877

Hormiga el Domingo de Ramos, [109-7] cayó enfermo con calentura tifoidea, agravándose de tal modo en pocos días que el Miércoles

Novelas Cortas Pedro Antonio de Alarc��n 1862

No, no; de mi calentura No, no: that's the madness delirio insensato es! of senseless delirium.

Don Juan Tenorio Jos�� Zorrilla 1855

Without answering my questions he continued repeating, with a smile, that the country was hot and humid; that the houses in the town of Pomerania were finer than those of Santa Cruz de Lorica; and that, if we remained in the forest, we should have the tertian fever (calentura) from which he had long suffered.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

At the time of my abode at La Guayra, the yellow fever, or calentura amarilla, had been known only two years; and the mortality it occasioned had not been very great, because the confluence of strangers on the coast of Caracas was less considerable than at the Havannah or Vera Cruz.

Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851