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fiebre intermitente
An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.
He had to capture some character and get out of that rest room before his ague got so bad that the sergeant had to carry him to and from the booth every day.
He shivered all the while, so violently, that it was quite as much as he could do to keep the neck of the bottle between his teeth, without biting it off. “I think you have got the…
escalofrío
A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold.
November 23, 1698, John Dryden, letter to Mrs Stewart I ’scap’d with one cold fit of an ague
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