Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
sirocco .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Poetic See
sirocco .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun poetic
sirocco
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Examples
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These were wild and miserable thoughts; but I cannot describe to you how the eternal twinkling of the stars weighed upon me, and how I listened to every blast of wind, as if it were a dull ugly siroc on its way to consume me.
Chapter 17 2010
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These were wild and miserable thoughts, but I cannot describe to you how the eternal twinkling of the stars weighed upon me and how I listened to every blast of wind as if it were a dull ugly siroc on its way to consume me.
Frankenstein 2003
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O Jonesy, Jonesy! would to heaven that thou and all thy brother blabsters and bubblyjocks would go hang yourselves, for you know naught of the war that rages ever like a sulphurous siroc in the human soul.
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These were wild and miserable thoughts, but I cannot describe to you how the eternal twinkling of the stars weighed upon me and how I listened to every blast of wind as if it were a dull ugly siroc on its way to consume me.
Frankenstein Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 1824
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These were wild and miserable thoughts, but I cannot describe to you how the eternal twinkling of the stars weighed upon me and how I listened to every blast of wind as if it were a dull ugly siroc on its way to consume me.
Frankenstein 1818
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