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If you happen to be in Africa and stuck in a “hot, dry, suffocating sand-wind” which sweeps across the deserts at intervals during the spring, you should know that you are in a simoom.

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Among these winds are the simoom and sirocco.

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It was late in the afternoon when we reached the spot again, and a wind which threatened simoom had covered the heart-shaped footmarks made by our own and other camels, as with a tidal wave.

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In the choking breath of the simoom he feels the potentialities of God, and his own helpless impotence.

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It was an His simple manners. exceedingly hot day and the simoom was blowing fiercely.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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