simoom

• Onwards, like the simoom, they came, burning and slaying, and were at the walls of Jerusalem before the inhabitants had time to look round them. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
• The simoom, the fatal breath of the desert, has put many a one there under the sand, and bleached bones caution the wanderer not to set his step on the deceptive ground of the Sahara Monsieur Beauchamp," replied the count earnestly, "if you were to know what I have already gone through you would not discourage me from doing my duty. —  The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I
• Think only of the simoom, the sand, the Kabyles, and the wild animals Have you the map of Algiers at hand Yes, here is the atlas Clary knelt close to the chair of the governess, who had the atlas on her lap, and after they had studied minutely all the mountains and deserts of Africa, she suddenly inquired How do people travel in the Sahara In caravans, with camels and negroes. —  The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I
• On making inquiries, I found that the skeletons were those of a caravan which, while crossing the Desert on their way south, had been overtaken by a simoom, and had perished, when only half a day's journey from the pools we had left. —  Saved from the Sea The Loss of the Viper, and her Crew's Saharan Adventures
• The authority of the Mahdi being established in the Soudan, we shall sweep Egypt like the simoom, and Cairo and Alexandria once in our hands, we shall find no difficulty in communicating with Europe. —  For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War

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