- a variation of sirocco.
scirocco
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sciroccos
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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 T. G. (Thomas George) Tucker
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
"This is like a June day of scirocco," said Artois, as he lit his pipe with the air of a man thoroughly at home.
From A Spirit in Prison by Robert Smythe Hichens
The day had been hot and rainy—an oppressive scirocco day—and the boy was languid and out of sorts.
From Helena by Mrs. Humphry Ward
All that is melancholy, all that is cruel and wicked in Rome--much, too, that is beautiful--is engendered by the scirocco.
From Our Own Set A Novel by Ossip Schubin
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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