Dry, hot wind in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
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Examples for "chamsin "
Examples for "chamsin "
1 His breath is the north wind at midnight, which freshens trees when withering, His anger is like the chamsin which burns what it touches.
1 The only fear is the Khamaseen wind.
1 The heat was increasing and the desert winds brought the " khamsin " or duststorms.
2 When the khamsin blows the dust- storms upon the caravan, the camel-driver hath no care for his camels.
3 Known in Egypt as the khamsin , on the Mediterranean as the sirocco, it is called on the Guinea coast the harmattan.
4 This was, unfortunately, exposed to the north-west winds, burning winds like the mistral of Italy and Provence, the khamsin of Egypt, etc.
5 Earlier that week, a sandstorm had closed the airport - the same khamsin had peppered windows and cars in Ireland with Saharan sand.
6 It was another very hot day, with a khamsin blowing, and the hard, shelterless hill-sides were a poor place to spend it on.
7 This desolation had been thrice desolate and Egypt's glory gone like the green grass in the breath of the Khamsin !
8 During the night a Khamsin wind began to blow, though lightly as was to be expected at this season of the year.
9 There is an unfinished oratorio, "Samuel," an incomplete opera, "Hinotito," and a cantata of which only the tenor solo, " Khamsin , " is done.
10 "Pestilence and Khamsin ! " blustered the old man.
11 "By Allah," he said aloud abstractedly, "it is a face that will not hide when the khamsin blows!
12 "O effendi, shall the camel-driver laugh when the camels are lost in the khamsin and the water-bottle is empty?"
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