Synonyms
Examples for "simoom"
Examples for "simoom"
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.
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".
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.
6
The tears came not; it was a dry, blistering tempest- ascorchingsimoon of the desert.
7
It refreshes when the breath of the world is a simoon, withering heart and strength.
8
All over Kandahar province the summer heat is intense, and the simoon is not unknown.
9
No whirlwind, tornado or simoon of the desert ever startled a nation as her volcanic career.
10
Grace found herself wondering if the Arabian simoon, of which she had read, could possibly be deadlier.
11
It is of old a native of the East, sister of the tornado, the earthquake, and the simoon.
12
But when they entered the desert the simoon swept down on them and buried them to a man.
13
The simoon may be blowing up.
14
A simoon, a monsoon and a typhoon met, head on, at the exact corner of the equator and the 180th meridian.
15
The simoon of shot and shell was over, and men and women and children crawled from their caves into the light of day.
16
Sandstorms are frequent, and at times the baleful simoon sweeps across the entire tract, destroying with its pestilential breath both men and animals.