prison fever

American  

noun

1. typhus.

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Example Sentences

Is there a danger of prison fever, sergeant?

From Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

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.

From By What Authority? by Benson, Robert Hugh

First, Glaucus the physician guaranteed Lygia's life, though she had the same prison fever of which, in the Tullianum and other dungeons, hundreds of people were dying daily.

From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Curtin, Jeremiah

I took the prison fever and was sent to the hospital.

From The Twin Hells; a thrilling narrative of life in the Kansas and Missouri penitentiaries by Reynolds, John N.

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

From The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country by Levinger, Elma Ehrlich