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Simoom

noun
1.
A violent hot sand-laden wind on the deserts of Arabia and North Africa.  Synonyms: samiel, simoon.






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"Simoom" Quotes from Famous Books



... by a simoom of rage from Salzburg. The father had a partial justification for his wrath in the fact that a busybody had carried to him all manner of slander about Mozart and, likewise, slander about Constanze. He writes reminding Wolfgang ...
— The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 • Rupert Hughes

... motion. He scarcely frets the atmosphere With breathing, and his body shares The immobility of rocks; His heart's a drop-well of tranquillity; His mind more still is than the limbs of fear, And yet its unperturbed velocity The spirit of the simoom mocks. He round the solemn centre of his soul Wheels like a dervish, while his being is Streamed with the set of the world's harmonies, In the long draft of whatsoever sphere He lists the sweet and clear Clangour of his high ...
— New Poems • Francis Thompson

... simoom across the waste, The desert waste, amid the dreary sand, With fiery breath swift burning up the land, O'er the scared pilgrim, speeding on in haste, Hurling fierce death-drifts ...
— Poems • Walter R. Cassels



Words linked to "Simoom" :   current of air, air current, wind



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