A violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa.
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Examples for "simoom"
Examples for "simoom"
1As Sulamith comes upon the scene a simoom sweeps across the desert.
2She is the simoom of the desert and the chilly blast which destroys.
3The palm bends before the blast as the simoom sweeps by.
4This great domain of the simoom has every diversity of surface.
5This news was answered by a simoom of rage from Salzburg.
1News spread through the desert with the rapidity of the simoon.
2During the approach of one of those death-dealing simoon's I noted a sublime phenomenon.
3On my way homeward, at Reno, I encountered a simoon of most appalling power.
4As I wuz asayin' along we went like fury, ther simoon chasing arter us.
5It's a simoon that you're thinking about, and they happen only on the desert.
1But to invoke Samiel and obtain his gifts was a body, mind, and nerve-racking business.
2Samiel disappears, and the tempest abates.
3If in such a place and at such a time he drew a circle around himself with his hunting-spear and called "Samiel!"
4Avoid it as you would the poisonous exhalations of the Bohon Upas, and fly it as you would the dreadful Samiel of the Arabian desert.
5The noise grows worse, the earth seems to quake, until at length after Caspar's reiterated invocations Samiel shows himself at the word, "seven".
6The course of six of them rested with the "free shooter," but the seventh belonged to Samiel, who might direct it wheresoever he wished.