khamsin

Example Sentences

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The sand is continually silting, and a khamseen may alter the whole surface of the land, yet to the eye it remains substantially the same.

From With Our Army in Palestine by Bluett, Antony

No words are bad enough for the "khamseen."

From The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 by Morrison, F. L.

The weather was unusually hot for this period of the year, and the dust churned up by traffic was as irritating as when the khamseen wind blew.

From How Jerusalem Was Won Being the Record of Allenby's Campaign in Palestine by Massey, William Thomas

It was a dull, sultry morning; a dark, leaden haze hung over Jerusalem, and the khamseen, or sirocco-wind, came from the south-west, out of the Arabian Desert.

From The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Taylor, Bayard

The khamseen was blowing from the south, from out the deserts of Edom, and threw its veil of fiery vapor over the landscape.

From The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Taylor, Bayard