marsh fever
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Owing to the ravages of marsh fever the place is now nearly deserted.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 by Various
At a recent meeting of the Paris Academy, M. D'Abbadie called attention to some facts regarding marsh fever, which African travelers and others might do well to ponder.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 358, November 11, 1882 by Various
It turned out that he was down with marsh fever in some out-of-the-way spot, and everything was over and finished with before he got back to civilisation and newspapers.”
From When William Came by Saki
They let me loose when they found that I could be trusted, and I learned botany, and caught a marsh fever which nearly finished me.
From Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution by Maurice Henry Hewlett
During a second visit to Patras, in September, he was attacked by the same sort of marsh fever from which, fourteen years afterwards, in the near neighbourhood, he died.
From Byron by John Nichol
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