simoom
Example Sentences
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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
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 Jefferies, Richard
There is nothing to be heard but the sharp whistle of the dry snow—the same dreary music which accompanies the African simoom.
From Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland by Taylor, Bayard
It was late in the afternoon when we reached the spot again, and a wind which threatened simoom had covered the heart-shaped footmarks made by our own and other camels, as with a tidal wave.
From Lord John in New York by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
No desert simoom, if it had passed over it, could have effected it more thoroughly.
From Memories of Bethany by Macduff, John R. (John Ross)
