simoom
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If you happen to be in Africa and stuck in a “hot, dry, suffocating sand-wind” which sweeps across the deserts at intervals during the spring, you should know that you are in a simoom.
From Time ● Mar. 20, 2014
The breath that from it issues Parches my palate; like the hot simoom, It scorches, though it sweep as stilly o'er Some blasted, bladeless desert!—
From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by John Roby
Despair not in calamities of a gladdening that shall wipe away thy sorrows; For how many a simoom blows, then turns to a gentle breeze, and is changed!
From Amaryllis at the Fair by Richard Jefferies
No desert simoom, if it had passed over it, could have effected it more thoroughly.
From Memories of Bethany by John R. (John Ross) Macduff
Waddles is a human simoom, carrying dust, sand and cactus.
From Fore! by Charles Emmett Van Loan
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