The approach of the simoom is a dense black cloud of whirling and seething fine dust. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
This great domain of the simoom has every diversity of surface. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Behind him was darkness; behind him raged drought and the simoom. From Wordnik.com. [Peer Gynt] Reference
When scorching rays or blue simoom sweep o'er their withering hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
This phenomenon of the simoom, unexpected by us, though foreseen by. From Wordnik.com. [MacMillan's Reading Books Book V] Reference
It would take the simoom another twenty minutes to reach the canyon. From Wordnik.com. [The Moses Expedition] Reference
I suppose the simoom we had there in the summer was a specimen of it. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
“The simoom!” repeated Joe, without exactly knowing what it meant. From Wordnik.com. [Five Weeks in a Balloon] Reference
Ask the simoom that sweeps like a cruel furnace blast over this forsaken region. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
They had just managed to squeeze themselves in before the simoom hit the canyon. From Wordnik.com. [The Moses Expedition] Reference
We are told that on the 17th of June, 1859, there was much more of a genuine simoom. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
Perhaps the full blast of the simoom may last an hour -- perhaps two or even three hours. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
As we were advancing, Idris suddenly cried out, "Fall upon your faces, for here is the simoom!". From Wordnik.com. [MacMillan's Reading Books Book V] Reference
The simoom is unmistakably a wind, and surely no one who has not had the experience can appreciate it. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
They have plenty of destructive energy, it is true, but the simoom has all this and much else besides. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
The drought was constantly increasing, and the heat none the less for the wind being north, this wind being the simoom of the Pampas. From Wordnik.com. [In Search of the Castaways] Reference
I should think they must resemble the African simoom. From Wordnik.com. [A Boy's Voyage Round the World] Reference
His description of the simoom parched up my entrails. From Wordnik.com. [The Pacha of Many Tales] Reference
I dare not face it, any more than I would the blast of the simoom. From Wordnik.com. [The Rifle Rangers] Reference
Next, Abaldar was sent against Thalaba, but was killed by a simoom. From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3] Reference
The air was rent with silk and brass; a simoom of rapture raced over. From Wordnik.com. [Star-Dust] Reference
It was in a gale of wind and a simoom of dust, but I greatly enjoyed it. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2 (of 3), 1857-1870] Reference
'A domestic simoom, 'said Fenellan, booming it: and Victor had a shudder. From Wordnik.com. [One of Our Conquerors — Complete] Reference
Had Hasan been a Lutheran or a Methodist, he would've been gone with the simoom. From Wordnik.com. [columbiatribune.com stories] Reference
Abdaldar was sent to hunt down the survivor, but was himself killed by a simoom. From Wordnik.com. [Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3] Reference
Onwards, like the simoom, they came, burning and slaying, and were at the walls of. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2] Reference
No desert simoom, if it had passed over it, could have effected it more thoroughly. From Wordnik.com. [Memories of Bethany] Reference
I am a perfect simoom of wrath at such times, and I am not responsible for what I do. From Wordnik.com. [Remarks] Reference
This was soon after; and along with the morning light had come the cessation of the simoom. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Slaves] Reference
My way has been through the desert; a burning simoom has scorched, has consumed my cheek. From Wordnik.com. [The Home] Reference
On another occasion we met the simoom, the purple haze in rushing past threatening suffocation. From Wordnik.com. [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure] Reference
Stephen's heart had withered up like a flower of the desert that feels the simoom coming from afar. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] Reference
The authority of the Mahdi being established in the Soudan, we shall sweep Egypt like the simoom, and. From Wordnik.com. [For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War] Reference
The promise of rain was followed by a simoom so stifling that it plunged every breathing thing into a struggle for air. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of India — Volume 01] Reference
I stood by his head for nearly half an hour, rubbing the dust from my eyes; and waiting until the simoom might settle away. From Wordnik.com. [The Scalp Hunters] Reference
There is nothing to be heard but the sharp whistle of the dry snow -- the same dreary music which accompanies the African simoom. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland] Reference
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