A violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa.
Sinônimos
Examples for "simoon"
Examples for "simoon"
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".
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.
6The air was rent with silk and brass; a simoom of rapture raced over Zoe.
7On another occasion we met the simoom, the purple haze in rushing past threatening suffocation.
8Perhaps in a simoom it may look more awful.
9His description of the simoom parched up my entrails.
10Singly we are sand-grains, together we are the simoom.
11Perhaps the full blast of the simoom may last an hour-perhaps two or even three hours.
12It is a simoom, a kamsin, fatal, irresistible.
13This was soon after; and along with the morning light had come the cessation of the simoom.
14A simoom of sorrow whose pestilent breath
15Stephen's heart had withered up like a flower of the desert that feels the simoom coming from afar.
16After that she could be irritated but she could not be depressed by Aunt Bessie's simoom of questioning.