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