simoom

Example Sentences

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I alone don’t sleep—but the Simoom is terrible. 

From Letters from Egypt by Ross, Janet

The last fortnight or three weeks have been very trying with the Simoom and intense heat. 

From Letters from Egypt by Ross, Janet

Indeed, every appearance warranted me in apprehending a Simoom.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Willis, Nathaniel Parker

F. Cowan, `Australia, a Charcoal Sketch': "The Buster and Brickfielder: austral red-dust blizzard; and red-hot Simoom."

From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Morris, Edward Ellis

June 17.—We have had four or five days of such fearful heat with a Simoom that I have been quite knocked up, and literally could not write. 

From Letters from Egypt by Ross, Janet