sirocco

• In front of Him were deserts of fever blasted by the sirocco, and malarious swamps of ague and palsy, and the mirage of the sufferer's deferred hope; but after He had passed, the parched ground became a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water, the eyes of the blind were opened, and the ears of the deaf unstopped, the lame man leaped as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sang How glad the sick of any district must have been when it was rumored that He was on His way to it! —  Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI.
• It is quite dry, unlike the sirocco which blows at Malta. —  Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846
• He remembered the morning of sirocco, his fear, his passion of tears in the boat. —  The Call of the Blood
• Then I got up, opened my window, and began to draw in the stifling South wind, for the sirocco was blowing, and I thought to myself Good heavens! —  The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 4 (of 8)
• The heat, the burning atmosphere which makes you feverish, those suffocating blasts of wind from the south, those waves of fire which come from the desert which is so near us, that oppressive sirocco, which is more destructive and withering than fire, that perpetual conflagration of an entire continent, that is burnt even to its stones by a fierce and devouring sun, inflame the blood, excite the flesh, and make brutes of us But to come to my story, I shall not tell you about the beginning of my stay in Africa. —  The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 (of 8)

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