Sentence example with the word 'simoom'

simoom

Definition n. a violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa

Last update: June 14, 2015


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If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life, as from that dry and parching wind of the African deserts called the simoom, which fills the mouth and nose and ears and eyes with dust till you are suffocated, for fear that I should get some of his good done to me--some of its virus mingled with my blood.   [Please select]

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The gentle zephyrs speak of thee, and so does the hot simoom that blows from Chickahominy, bringing an inordinate number of mosquitoes.   [Please select]

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I dare not face it, any more than I would the blast of the simoom.   [Please select]

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It is known to us as the Simoom, the wind so perilous to travellers in the desert.   [Please select]

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After that she could be irritated but she could not be depressed by Aunt Bessie's simoom of questioning.   [Please select]

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Here's the Simoom, with the blast of a hurricane, Hurricane whirling the sand in drifts.   [Please select]

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The ground of the ravine where we two are closely clustered to abide the tempest is quivering, and at each shot we feel the deep simoom of the shells.   [Please select]

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