marsh-fever

The marsh-fever had taken his memory and left him thinking he was no more than a peasant boy that Darian had chosen for his apprentice despite the "obvious unsuitability" of the boy; either the fever or the trauma of flight had also left him with a stutter he still suffered.

The Robin And The Kestrel Lackey, Mercedes 1993

Wait, there had been, and the boy had been sick with a marsh-fever.

The Lark And The Wren Lackey, Mercedes 1992

So it was that, when Alexander had been nine days down with marsh-fever, she heard a palace chamberlain gossiping with a harem eunuch.

Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981

His soldiers were infected by the despondency of their leader, and many of them were stricken by the marsh-fever which haunts the unwholesome district of the Anapus.

Stories from Thucydides

Mahomedan paradise, were speedily dissipated by the odious realities of filth and vermin, marsh-fever and mosquitoes.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various

The marsh-fever struck them -- killed the Emperor's cousin, Frederic of

On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859

Found it out when I had that foul case of marsh-fever and a head like an overripe pumpkin. "

Magic's Price Lackey, Mercedes 1990

Found it out when I had that foul case of marsh-fever and a head like an overripe pumpkin. "

Magic's Price Lackey, Mercedes 1990