- a variation of sirocco.
scirocco
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sciroccos
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The vast city, devastated for the last time by the Saracens in 878 A.D., has been reduced to dust and swept by the scirocco into the sea.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by John Addington Symonds
The wind has changed and now a scirocco is blowing.
From L'Arrabiata and Other Tales by Paul Heyse
She continued in great suffering till Friday, when the weather suddenly changed to scirocco, and she at once rallied.
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. Hare
Half-way down the path, he turned back to look at her, and saw that she was carrying a light waterproof, which aunt Pattie had forced upon her lest the scirocco should end in rain.
From Eleanor by Mrs. Humphry Ward
And Lucy wondered why the long ascent to Nemi was so delightful; why the scirocco seemed to have gone from the air, leaving so purpureal and divine a light on mountain and lake and distance.
From Eleanor by Mrs. Humphry Ward
We have incessant rain, which is as bad as your sciroccos; at least it damps my energies very much.
From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 by William Aldis Wright
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