Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
intermittent fever (which see, underfever ).
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Examples
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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
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Wait, there had been, and the boy had been sick with a marsh-fever.
The Lark And The Wren Lackey, Mercedes 1992
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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