prison fever

American  

noun

1. typhus.

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Example Sentences

That many died from dysentery, smallpox and prison fever, there is no doubt; but there is not any record that they were starved to death.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg

And if the pleasures that I now recall seem tinged with bitter, and if the gaiety was but a phase of that greater prison fever that burnt us all in the beleaguered city, still there was much to live for in those times through which I, among many, passed; and by God's mercy, not my own endeavor, passed safely, soul and body.

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When I left France to follow Lafayette I never dreamed that I might die of prison fever in a hole like this.

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The prison fever was beginning to cause alarm, and it seemed that a good fine would meet the old knight's case better than any other execution of justice.

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