scirocco
Americannoun
plural
sciroccosExample Sentences
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And here there is an intellectual scirocco established in permanence.
From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von
The visit to the country in the season of the "mad star" and the scirocco was as necessary to the ancient Roman as is his villeggiatura to the modern.
From Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)
That marine situation . . . only think of three thousand years of scirocco, summer and winter!
From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman
The blur and blight of the scirocco had vanished without rain, under a change of wind.
From Eleanor by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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 Hare, Augustus J. C.
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