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In the glass-topped Grand Palais, which looked and felt like a hothouse, electric fans set small siroccos swirling over the delegates' heads.

From Time Magazine Archive

And it is not only the siroccos that help forward His purpose for us!

From Parables of the Christ-life by Trotter, I. Lilias

Of the atmosphere the gardener has almost absolute control—no siroccos, biting frost, or destructive winds interfere.

From Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 1, January 5, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside by Various

What could his errand be, amid the typhoons and siroccos of that desolate continent?

From Boycotted And Other Stories by Reed, Talbot Baines

Fatal and beautiful colors lurked in the swamps, and in the sifting dust, fine and hard, blown by siroccos across the glare of noon, like sands on the shores of the Lake of Fire.

From Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 by Various