Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Typhus fever (which see, under
fever ). Also calledjail-fever .
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Examples
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His mother nursed him back to life, and then started for Charleston to see what could be done for the prisoners rotting in the British prison-ships in the harbor, only herself to catch the prison-fever, and to be buried in a grave which her son was never able to discover.
American Men of Action Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917
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His mother nursed him back to life, and then started for Charleston to see what could be done for the prisoners rotting in the British prison-ships in the harbor, only herself to catch the prison-fever, and to be buried in a grave which her son was never able to discover.
American Men of Action Stevenson, Burton E 1913
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