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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Pneumonia.

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Examples

  • He was coughing like a man in the grip of lung-fever, and so nearly blind that he all but spitted himself on Valeria's sword as he rushed up.

    Conan and The Gods of The Mountain Green, Roland 1993

  • That brought her round; but now she looked feverish, and was shaking all over, and I knew that she was going to have one of her ill turns, -- possibly lung-fever, -- for her lungs were but weak, and she rarely got over the winter without a fever.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 Various

  • He first had lung-fever from which he partially recovered, but he now seems like one in a slow consumption; I have not as yet called to see him, as I hear he is very irritable and does not care to see people, and I feared he would take my visit as an intrusion.

    Walter Harland Or, Memories of the Past

  • He had his share o 'misery, po' man, him dyin 'o' lung-fever an 'all ....

    Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905

  • She died of lung-fever, contracted through exposing herself one night at a military ball, in direct opposition to my brother Benjamin's wishes.

    Theo A Sprightly Love Story Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

  • In a very short time Jake returned with Dr. Mandy, who, after feeling young master's pulse, sounding his chest, and applying the stethescope, said that he feared it was an incipient form of lung-fever.

    Autobiography of a female slave, 1857

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