siroccos
- plural of sirocco.
Example Sentences
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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
Chiefs blinded by your rage! each bleachèd sapless bone Becomes a pipe Through which siroccos whistle, trodden 'mong the stone By quail and snipe.
From Poems by Hugo, Victor
I must remark, also, that the house was well warmed and ventilated, without the aid of alternating siroccos and north winds.
From The Englishwoman in America by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
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
What could his errand be, amid the typhoons and siroccos of that desolate continent?
From Boycotted And Other Stories by Reed, Talbot Baines
