A violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa.
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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