prison fever

How to use prison fever in a sentence

• The principal physical disabilities are prison fever, colds, pneumonia, lung diseases and rheumatism.

  The Twin Hells | John N. Reynolds

• The next day this poor convict was taken with the prison fever, and in one short week he was a corpse.

  The Twin Hells | John N. Reynolds

• Ten were sent to Newgate, where nine died miserably of prison fever and filth; the tenth survivor was executed.

  History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. | James Anthony Froude

• “This cursed prison fever is eating me up;” and with that I turned my back on him.

  A Daughter of Raasay | William MacLeod Raine

• But this one gleam of light was speedily quenched, for Onesiphorus caught the prison fever, and died at Rome.

  Darkness and Dawn | Frederic W. Farrar