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Meanings of simoom in anglès
Synonyms
Examples for "simoon"
Examples for "simoon"
1
News spread through the desert with the rapidity of the simoon.
2
During the approach of one of those death-dealing simoon's I noted a sublime phenomenon.
3
On my way homeward, at Reno, I encountered a simoon of most appalling power.
4
As I wuz asayin' along we went like fury, ther simoon chasing arter us.
5
It's a simoon that you're thinking about, and they happen only on the desert.
1
But to invoke Samiel and obtain his gifts was a body, mind, and nerve-racking business.
2
Samiel disappears, and the tempest abates.
3
If in such a place and at such a time he drew a circle around himself with his hunting-spear and called "Samiel!"
4
Avoid it as you would the poisonous exhalations of the Bohon Upas, and fly it as you would the dreadful Samiel of the Arabian desert.
5
The noise grows worse, the earth seems to quake, until at length after Caspar's reiterated invocations Samiel shows himself at the word, "seven".
Usage of simoom in anglès
1
As Sulamith comes upon the scene a simoom sweeps across the desert.
2
She is the simoom of the desert and the chilly blast which destroys.
3
The palm bends before the blast as the simoom sweeps by.
4
This great domain of the simoom has every diversity of surface.
5
This news was answered by a simoom of rage from Salzburg.
6
The air was rent with silk and brass; a simoom of rapture raced over Zoe.
7
On another occasion we met the simoom, the purple haze in rushing past threatening suffocation.
8
Perhaps in a simoom it may look more awful.
9
His description of the simoom parched up my entrails.
10
Singly we are sand-grains, together we are the simoom.
11
Perhaps the full blast of the simoom may last an hour-perhaps two or even three hours.
12
It is a simoom, a kamsin, fatal, irresistible.
13
This was soon after; and along with the morning light had come the cessation of the simoom.
14
A simoom of sorrow whose pestilent breath
15
Stephen's heart had withered up like a flower of the desert that feels the simoom coming from afar.
16
After that she could be irritated but she could not be depressed by Aunt Bessie's simoom of questioning.
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Simoom through the time