Example Sentences

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The weather has shown some signs of improvement and tempted me, despite the persistent "scirocco" mood, to a few excursions into the neighbourhood.

From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman

One exchanges complaints upon the subject of the weather, the scirocco, the rain.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Gozzi, Count Carlo

Half-way down the path, he turned back to look at her, and saw that she was carrying a light waterproof, which aunt Pattie had forced upon her lest the scirocco should end in rain.

From Eleanor by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

The visit to the country in the season of the "mad star" and the scirocco was as necessary to the ancient Roman as is his villeggiatura to the modern.

From Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)

That marine situation . . . only think of three thousand years of scirocco, summer and winter!

From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman