| 单词 | sirocco |
| 例句 | The agents were forced to retreat, chased by the sirocco. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z In the hearth at the north wall a large fire cracked and lisped, flushing the room with a dry sirocco that caused frozen skin to tingle. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Like their master, the South Wind, they were conflicted—half hot, dry sirocco, half stormy thunderhead. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In that part of the world, it was called the sirocco, because it brought moisture from the oceans to the east. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Pantelleria is battered by two Mediterranean winds, the mistral and the sirocco. Tilda and Luca in Central Park 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z In the summer, the squares are picked clean by le sirocco, a wind that originates in the Sahara and covers the rooftops in fine red sand. Secrets of the “Exile” sessions: Drugs, sex and madness as the Rolling Stones took over France 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z She was marvellous and monstrous, sirocco and mistral, fragile and brutish, inspired and vacant. Elaine Stritch: I'll Miss Her 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z On this occasion, though, we are all so in the thrall of Driver, who breezes in and out of “Burn This” like a sirocco, that we believe in his ability to turn Anna’s head. Review | Nathan Lane and Adam Driver are both starring on Broadway. Only one of them gives us a good time. 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z I cannot say that I was precisely unwell during the incessant sirocco, but it was more disagreeable than an indisposition which passes away in a few days. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z It was a sultry, headachey sort of morning, with a hot sirocco that stirred the bunting on the flagstaffs. Mortal Coils 2012-04-06T02:00:30.740Z His moon is in its first quarter, and still sirocco blows up out of the sea day by day. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z Among these winds are the simoom and sirocco. Meteorology or Weather Explained 2012-02-20T03:00:18.847Z The leaves are scorched as with the breath of a sirocco. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z The brain, swept by the sirocco of God's curse, becomes a desert. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z I've been hoping to be warmed by a sirocco from Morocco but instead there is a real bone-chiller blasting in from, well, Siberia at a guess. F1's blame culture makes for exhausting work for FIA's Charlie Whiting 2012-02-09T16:57:57Z The effect has been noticed in the Mediterranean Sea when the sirocco wind is blowing. Hertzian Wave Wireless Telegraphy 2012-01-09T03:00:20.570Z "Not of my kind, I'll warrant," snorted Python, blowing his foul breath like a small sirocco almost in Pig's face. The Sa'-Zada Tales 2011-12-14T03:00:18.457Z She thinks he is joking and commences again; but when she actually realizes that he is going to leave her, that he finds it possible to leave, a perfect whirlwind succeeds the sirocco. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z The healthy Etesian winds are generally replaced towards the end of summer by the southerly Libas or sirocco, which, when blowing strongly, resembles the blast from a furnace and is most injurious to health. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z And thus, Love to a storm of passion growing, swept My wounded soul and dried my tears, as dries The hot sirocco all the bitter pools Of salt among the sand. The Epic of Hades In Three Books 2011-11-16T03:00:28.060Z The waving sea, the sirocco wind, the lights of the town towards which we rowed, and our own desolate hearts, that coloured all with a shroud. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z At sunset that day a fierce sirocco arose, accompanied by thunder and lightning, such as is seldom seen during the winter season. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume I (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:08.903Z We beat up to the mouth of the Gulf of Smyrna, but, with the sirocco blowing directly in our teeth, it was impossible to go farther. Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. I (of 2) 2011-11-01T02:00:22.197Z The sirocco affects, though in a less degree, the other countries of the Balkan peninsula and even Rumania. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Painful is it, oh reader, to listen; and the words of our teacher sweep like a sirocco over the heart; yet we cannot choose but hear. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z Houses toppled like packs of cards, mosques were blown into the air, and public buildings swept away like grains of sand before the sirocco. The Great War in England in 1897 2011-09-20T02:00:17.083Z In the southern Alpine valleys the F�hn wind is often called sirocco, but its nature and cause are different from the true sirocco. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Bezzy's landscapes the old Countess pronounced to be masterpieces, and she became so absorbed in a sirocco by that artist that she quite forgot the purpose for which she had come hither. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z The high-pitched roofs of the houses here are suggestive of the snows of winter; but the heat reminds me of the coast of Africa during a sirocco. My Unknown Chum 2011-03-01T03:00:38.307Z A Roman sirocco evening, with an approaching thunderstorm that hung heavily around the horizon and would not lift. Asbe?n From the Life of a Virtuoso 2011-02-27T03:00:30.780Z The town rarely feels the effect of the sirocco, or wind from the south, and never longer than for two or three days in succession. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z For the wind was blowing more fiercely, bringing with it the heat of a sirocco, and the sand was pouring into her eyes and ears, almost blinding and choking her. The Ranch Girls at Home Again 2011-01-13T03:01:04.363Z When the old Countess asked him if he were ill, he ascribed his condition to the sirocco. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z During all this time the dull sirocco never ceased to blow, either in a low, unending wail, or in louder and more fitful blasts. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z The walls were permeated with the day's heat; the curtains threatened suffocation; a veritable sirocco blew through the cracks of the shutters. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z But here this sirocco blows flat to the ground full many an aspiring blade. Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z The approach of spring unstrings my nerves, and the south winds have the same effect upon me which Brydone says the sirocco winds have upon the inhabitants of Sicily. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams The sirocco or desert wind is troublesome, however, during summer, but in the winter it is merely a pleasant, warm, dry breeze. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide The sirocco that blew every now and then in fitful, silent gusts, was damp, stifling, heavy. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z He had spoken of blue olive vapours—the sea blackened by the breath of the sirocco—and shining meadows of asphodel. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z An invalid quickly loses appetite, courage, and even physical capacity to walk any distance, when the sirocco prevails. The Story of Malta The wind has changed and now a sirocco is blowing. The Dead Lake and Other Tales The blighting sirocco of cold indifference sweeps over this desert mind, increases the powers of absorption—annihilates all that is cheering and lovely. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution The sirocco, which had accompanied them all the way from Palermo, now fell all at once, just as they had reached the neighbourhood of Cape Salvore. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z Round about the city lies a Sahara, the earth of which is constantly dug up, so that the sirocco is never in want of dust. Black Diamonds The so-called Black Wind, a local phenomenon similar to the African sirocco, consists of hard-blowing, hot, very dry air and wreaks havoc on crops. Area Handbook for Bulgaria It is a real sirocco, dry, and so hot as to remind one of a blast from a furnace. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. To render this darkness more visible he was the Promethean vulture that devoured blooming innocence—the blighting sirocco that withered the bowers of domestic felicity. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution There are portions of Arizona and Lower California where the fervor of the sun's rays at noonday smite the earth with the withering power of the sirocco. Through Apache Lands It was a fierce sirocco freighted with iron as well as sand. The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War Frequent gale storms and hot winds resembling the African sirocco, however, have an adverse influence on crops. Area Handbook for Bulgaria Through the land the hot sirocco blows, And within my heart the old flame glows, Sweet music within me is stirring. The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. His tongue, pen, logic, sarcasm—all were blighting as a sirocco wind. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution 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. Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 Where our brigade was to operate was a dense wilderness of pines with matted underbrush, but in the morning it looked as though a sirocco had kissed it. The Black Phalanx African American soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War I had a perpetual consciousness of my bilious tendencies, and when the sirocco blew I found it difficult to bear up against that and the permanent causes of depression I always have to struggle against. Records of Later Life The next day we had the sirocco; and, to quote the expression with which I once heard a popular preacher commence a sermon, it was “d–––d hot.” Notes in North Africa Being a Guide to the Sportsman and Tourist in Algeria and Tunisia A military despotism is a national curse, a blighting sirocco, a foe to liberty. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution Then, he noticed me at the window: —Awful growing weather, he told me, here comes the sirocco. Letters from my Windmill Before the clouds burst there will come days—weeks, perhaps, off and on—of fierce sirocco, hurling them back as they try to gather. Our Moslem Sisters A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness Interpreted by Those Who Heard It The aspects of Venice are as various, as manifold, as the hues held in solution upon her waters beneath a sirocco sky. Italy, the Magic Land He was not yet sufficiently roused from the bad temper and depression induced by the sirocco to appreciate the King’s exalted mood. The Island Mystery For my part, I know nothing that injures works in fresco more than the sirocco, and particularly near the sea, where it always brings a salt moisture with it. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo This was the sirocco, the herald of the tempest that soon thereafter burst upon us. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge In coasting along the shores of Nubia, the dense air from off the land was like a sirocco, suffocatingly hot, the effect being more enervating than that of any previous experience of the journey. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months Tramontana and sirocco alternate, and each is more unendurable than the other. Italy, the Magic Land He opened windows, panting for air, and closed them with a curse when the hot blast of the sirocco smote him in the face. The Island Mystery Whirlwinds of sand come rushing upon the traveller, half blinding and choking him,—a miniature sirocco, and decidedly cousin-german to the delightful sandy puffs so frequent at Cape Town. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia The sirocco was still blowing; and the largest breakers I ever saw were tumbling on the beach. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge In coasting along the shores of Nubia, the dense air from off the land is like a sirocco, suffocatingly hot. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands It is uniform, certain, deadly, as the sirocco of the desert, or as the malaria of the Pontine marshes. Select Temperance Tracts For four days the sirocco blew across the island. The Island Mystery When we direct our attention to the island of Corfu, situated some distance eastward of Sicily, we find the sirocco assuming a somewhat different character. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia The sirocco was blowing, and a huge black wave rolled up before it from the south. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge Then came November with its pestilent sirocco gales and its dampness, pierced and cut through now and then by the first northerly winds of winter. Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 The lyddite ploughed up the hills with terrific uproar, and the surrounding atmosphere appeared as though a sirocco of red sand had swept over the district. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 "I wish that was all," replied Sumichrast; "but it's something much worse; it is the south wind, the sirocco of the Mexican coast." Adventures of a Young Naturalist See the following quotations on this character of the sirocco:— 1841. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia An oppressive wind, blowing from Africa into the Mediterranean; synonymous with sirocco. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. It is said that the undoubted effect of the sirocco on the temper of Southern Italy is due to the irritation caused by inhaling the fine particles with the breath. Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 The sirocco, a wind that depresses even people without nerves, was blowing and melting the ice. My Recollections of Lord Byron Half-way across the gulf the sirocco lulled; the sail was lowered, and we had to make the rest of the passage by rowing. New Italian sketches The dust raised from the Sahara and carried northward by the sirocco often falls over the countries north of the Mediterranean as `blood rain,' or as `red snow,' the moisture and the sand falling together. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia Then, indeed, he is felt; he is oppressive; like the sirocco, which the native detects at once, while a foreigner is often at fault. Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert Thus Islam, like the resistless breath of the sirocco, the desert wind, swept out of Arabia and encountered—a spiritual vacuum. The New World of Islam It is high time; already we have had a week of this work: snow and sirocco one day, ice and snow the other. My Recollections of Lord Byron It's a fine day and a lovely pink sunset, and there's a beautiful mild sirocco blowing off the African shore to make the 'ot night pleasant as we approach it in the boats. The U-boat hunters This wind has all the characteristics of a sirocco in miniature . Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia There was a gale blowing in the morning; rain of course was falling, but the curiosity of the day was an intermittent sirocco, which came up the valley like blasts from a fiery furnace. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler A sirocco seems blowing up from the graves of all young people who have never been given a chance. Clair de Lune A Play in Two Acts and Six Scenes It was the chill rain of the “norther;” but at that moment neither cold norte nor hot sirocco could have produced upon me an impression of pain. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse He shivered; then a sirocco of fire followed the void of the wind. The Dragon Painter Orthodoxy: Sand blown by the sirocco, from the Sahara to Europe. The Book of the Damned And it is not only the siroccos that help forward His purpose for us! Parables of the Christ-life Winckelmann attributes their rapid decay to the corrosive action of the sirocco wind; Fea to the variations in temperature, which cause the lead to melt in summer, and crack in winter. Pagan and Christian Rome It poured steadily for two months, with occasional flurries of snow, also thunder, likewise hurricanes, the tramontàna, the sirocco, and all the other charming features of an Italian winter. Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag Nor, as the spring advanced, and the tides of the Roman populace, driven before the hot blast of the sirocco, began to roll towards Frascati and the hills, would Ivan follow them. The Genius The sirocco of sorrow had fanned its hot breath over my soul; but, no grateful spring shower had cooled it through prayer. She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History. What could his errand be, amid the typhoons and siroccos of that desolate continent? Boycotted And Other Stories Instead of the climate being essentially dry, it is saturated with humidity during a great part of the year; and the peculiar sirocco of the place is of a hot, dry, irritating nature. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 444 Volume 18, New Series, July 3, 1852 And whole fields of slaughtered virtues are swept over by their death-dealing siroccos. Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. The acting was to be in the gymnasium, not in the garden, for a sirocco wind was blowing and the overcast sky promised rain. The Jolliest School of All It was a magnificent day, very hot but not sultry, free from sirocco. The Call of the Blood The languor of the sirocco lay over Rome. The Child of Pleasure When a sirocco has blown for some days, it lulls suddenly, and is succeeded by an equally strong breeze from the north-west, contrasting violently with the former in temperature and everything else. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 444 Volume 18, New Series, July 3, 1852 The summer house is a rude brush shelter, usually made with four corner posts, a flat top of brush, and a windbreak of the same material as a protection against the hot desert siroccos. The North American Indian This tolerance and largeur of the heart that “forgives” everything because it “understands” everything is a sirocco to us. The Antichrist Sirocco had him fast, sirocco that leaves many Sicilians unchanged, unaffected, but that binds the stranger with cords of cotton wool which keep him like a net of steel. The Call of the Blood Over her head, the languid breath of the sirocco sent a broken murmur through the green trees. The Child of Pleasure A sirocco was blowing at the time, setting a heavy tide in the direction of the whirlpool of Scylla, or the Faro, as they call it there. The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World In the morning, a terrible sirocco levante was blowing, with an almost freezing cold. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two While they were absent on the mountain to recover from illness, the result of confinement, anxiety, and a suffocating sirocco, the "Young Men" rose in arms, against the Protestant brethren. History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I. The deep melancholy poured into him by sirocco caused him to do so now. The Call of the Blood Halfway across the gulf the sirocco lulled; the sail was lowered, and we had to make the rest of the passage by rowing. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series In its native habitat it has become accustomed to the hot winds that often sweep across the Mediteranean, the burning sirocco of the Great Sahara. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 Of the atmosphere the gardener has almost absolute control—no siroccos, biting frost, or destructive winds interfere. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 1, January 5, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside Their colour, too, was identical; while the Sahara is a 'dazzling white sand:' hence the dust brought across the Mediterranean by the sirocco was not peculiar to Africa. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 432 Volume 17, New Series, April 10, 1852 He wanted to get away from his companions, from the boat, to be quite alone with sirocco. The Call of the Blood It had passed over her like the sirocco of the desert, leaving her parched, dried, shrivelled, as a child grown old before its years. Sally Bishop A Romance And yet I ought not to complain; for, though it is a sirocco, and heavy rain, I have not yawned for these two days. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals Our windows are all wide open; the heat is intense, and the air that comes in at them like a sirocco. Records of a Girlhood Rain fell almost every day, and constant sirocco winds depressed the spirits of the people and prevented all outdoor enjoyments. Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood He had remembered his sensation in the sea that gray morning of sirocco. The Call of the Blood Then the sirocco of fear and hate centering about her, would blow itself out forever and his own life would be safe, for the secret would be worthless. Diane of the Green Van The snow of last week melting to the sirocco of to-day, so that there were two d——d things at once. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals The miasma of the swamp, the simoom of the desert, the merciless sirocco, are healthful when compared to such an atmosphere. Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three He had known many men who had to fly before the domestic sirocco; he had laughed at and despised them in his heart. Married Life The True Romance He remembered the morning of sirocco, his fear, his passion of tears in the boat. The Call of the Blood The summers, no doubt, are hot, especially in the south, and an occasional sirocco produces intense discomfort while it lasts. Ancient Egypt High time—almost a week at this work—snow, sirocco, one day—frost and snow thePg 57 other—sad climate for Italy. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals "The sirocco," said someone, and foretold a heavy mist with the night. Tell England A Study in a Generation He who girds at an ancient established festival should reflect upon sundry obvious truths before he withers up the said festival by the sirocco of his contempt. The Feast of St. Friend He knew the silvery calm of dawn on a day of sirocco. The Call of the Blood It does not force two souls together like the grains of sand in the desert, which the sirocco whirls together and then asunder. Memories A Story of German Love Snow on the ground, and sirocco above in the sky, like yesterday. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals I am so glad to believe that the monsoons, and typhoons, and mistrals, and siroccos of the land and sea are not unchained maniacs let loose upon the earth, but are under divine supervision! New Tabernacle Sermons It left him unnerved as though some morbid sirocco had passed over him. The Marriage of William Ashe The popular verdict on the matter would no doubt be that when meteorologists can not only describe the sirocco, but give warning of its coming, their science will justify its claim to consideration. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Their breath is the sirocco of the desert. The Abominations of Modern Society It scarcely seemed her fingers that touched the harp to tune, but as if some herald of sirocco, some faint, hot breeze, had brushed between the strings. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 The sirocco was blowing up and down the streets, and about the corners, with its sickening blast, making us all feel like dead people, and hiding away the sun from us. A Roman Singer I presumed that the sirocco detained him also; but as the state of Jadin appeared to me alarming, I resolved to go and rouse my Esculapius, and bring him, willing or unwilling, to the hotel. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 The zephyr had come early, and it had come fresh; but there were symptoms of a sirocco about the barometer and in the atmosphere. The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet Hereupon Monkhouse drained his already empty cup, the sign that another sirocco was sweeping his throat. Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel Industry wilts under revolutionary movement, as vegetation under the sirocco, and they bring to the multitude anything but a realization of Utopian dreams. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 For it was a cold sirocco, bringing showers of tepid rain from the south, and the drops seemed to chill themselves as they fell. A Roman Singer Perhaps a generation must pass away before the people here will accommodate their habits to the climate, which is that of Italy, without either malaria or the sirocco. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 401, November 28, 1829 It was the expected--nay, the announced--sirocco, and it brought the lugger to windward beyond all dispute. The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet It was enchanting in spite of the atmosphere of the sirocco. Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. The sirocco has been blowing all day, and it is a hot unwholesome evening with no cool sea-breeze. The Uncommercial Traveller It is no use trying to do anything when it blows sirocco, at least for us who are born here. A Roman Singer For the hand he held was shaking like some slender-stalked lily in the clutch of the sirocco. Within the Law Thus is blood that might have been a sirocco to stir the soul of an anchorite, transformed into an icy mist—the Paphian Venus lies crushed, degraded, cold, amid the reeds of Pan. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 Carol stepped into a sirocco of furnace heat. Main Street Do the large, dark eyes, and the small, red mouth, Consume thine heart with a fiery drouth, Like the fierce sirocco that sweeps from the south, When the deserts are parch'd and dry? Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon Like the prophet, when it blows a real sirocco you feel as if you were poured out like water, and all your bones were out of joint. A Roman Singer The sirocco was gently blowing, the air was heavy, she was tired, she looked a little pale. Roderick Hudson Selfishness blows on it like a parching sirocco, and all things seem to bow to the might of selfishness. Bride of the Mistletoe Upon certain days, a blast of the sirocco has passed over the town. Saint Augustin His lips were dry and shrivelled as if he had passed through a sirocco. With Edged Tools Byron is the stale authority; and every snub-nosed cynic turns up his prominent organ, and talks of "sirocco, sun, and sweat." A Love Story For ten days with a sirocco wind the rains had descended, as surely they had never come down since the windows of heaven were opened at the Flood. In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc Chiefs blinded by your rage! each bleachèd sapless bone Becomes a pipe Through which siroccos whistle, trodden 'mong the stone By quail and snipe. Poems I must remark, also, that the house was well warmed and ventilated, without the aid of alternating siroccos and north winds. The Englishwoman in America That sirocco, the worst of many Italian varieties: who shall calculate its debilitating effect upon the stamina of the race? Alone I set the heat of midday at defiance, and do not believe in the horrors of the sirocco. Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents Constantly in motion, always striving to employ every moment and to see everything, I felt myself at last very much affected by the unceasing sirocco. True Story of My Life The air was sickly; and if the wind was not a sirocco, it was a withering levanter—oppressive to the functions of life, and to an invalid denying all exercise. The Life of Lord Byron Still the mariner of Calabria lounged beneath the awning which sheltered his deck, or took his siesta on a pile of old sails, which were ragged with the force of many a hot sirocco. The Bravo The heat was very oppressive, a hot sirocco, wind blowing which; obliged us to keep our windows shut on account of the fine alkaline dust. A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba One moment she could be like the sirocco in warmth and languor, the next as sparkling as the sunlit ocean. The Net The sirocco blew its boiling-hot breath and I was perfectly overcome. True Story of My Life This quality in the Roman element may now and then "relax" you almost to ecstasy; but a season of sirocco would be an overdose of morbid pleasure. Italian Hours "My people have long been below, and I have dreamt thrice of shipwreck, and twice of a heavy sirocco, since thou hast been expected." The Bravo When that vast region was still submerged, no sirocco blowing for days in succession carried its hot blasts from a wide expanse of burning sand across the Mediterranean. The Antiquity of Man In order to shun its effects, people sometimes shut themselves up in their houses, as they do in Italy when the sirocco is blowing. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 On the Congo course the foul weather is mostly from the "sirocco," where the African interior is a mass of swamps. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Occasionally when the sirocco blows that sensation becomes strange and exquisite. Italian Hours I suppose the sirocco hath been tossing the waters of the bay, and thy nets are empty. The Bravo The heat was intolerable, in consequence of a hot wind that blew upon us like a sirocco from the N.W., and the air so rarified that we could hardly breathe, and were greatly distressed. Expedition into Central Australia Chemistry does not yet possess any means of distinguishing two jars of air, the one filled during the prevalence of the sirocco or the catia, and the other before these winds have commenced. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The benches, too, were frightfully uncomfortable, and sticky with sirocco moisture under the breathless awning. South Wind As I sat over my pretended meal, I heard the sirocco moaning without, and at times a splash of rain against the window. By the Ionian Sea Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy A relapse was to be expected; it came at the bidding of sirocco. The Emancipated He paused—for really her fiery eyes seemed to burn him; and her contempt dried up the stream of his commonplace flattery, as the breath of the sirocco parches up the dew-drops. Joseph II. and His Court In another instant she was away like a sirocco; a whirlwind of dust, that rose in the moonlight, marking her flight as she rode full gallop to Algiers. Under Two Flags The sirocco, this year, has been most exceptional. South Wind The weather was again stormy, but this time blew sirocco; I felt its evil breath waste my muscles, clog my veins, set all my nerves a-tremble. By the Ionian Sea Notes of a Ramble in Southern Italy He met Spence with irresistible frankness and courtesy; his talk made the luncheon cheery, and dismissed thought of sirocco. The Emancipated They are excessively violent, sometimes shaking the very house; hot, dry, from having already poured out their moisture, and enervating like the Italian sirocco. A First Year in Canterbury Settlement The electioneering whirlwind which had enveloped them in Corsica, crossed the sea behind them like a blast of the sirocco and filled the flat in the Place Vendome with a mad wind of folly. The Nabob It still blew from the other quarter—the old familiar sirocco. South Wind Under Clement VII the whole horizon of Rome was filled with vapors, like that leaden veil which the sirocco drew over the Campagna, and which made the last months of summer so deadly. The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy "I wonder how you manage to keep the sirocco out?" South Wind We down here, who live in this sirocco, are supposed to be calculating and mercenary in matters of the heart. South Wind The sirocco happened to be particularly trying that day. South Wind There was barely standing room, in spite of the sirocco heat. South Wind "I think we can change the sirocco," replied the Count, meditatively. South Wind I question whether the sirocco was as obnoxious in olden days as now, otherwise the ancients, who had absurdly sensitive skins, would have complained of it more frequently. South Wind This sirocco, of which older inhabitants might well complain, had so far exerted no baleful influence upon him. South Wind Not a leaf was astir under the burning sirocco sky. South Wind Some gardeners moved about, binding up the riotous vegetation that had sprouted overnight under the moist breath of the sirocco. South Wind He appeared in fancy ties and spats, fluttered about at boating parties and picnics, dined at restaurants, perpetrated one or two classic jokes about the sirocco. South Wind The moisture-laden sirocco, tearing itself to shreds against the riven summits of the high southern cliffs, dripped ceaselessly upon this verdant oasis in clouds of invisible dew. South Wind The soil, so recently drenched by the miraculous shower of rain, was once more dry and dusty; its fragile flowers wilted in the sirocco. South Wind "The moist sirocco is injurious to the finer growths." South Wind "This sirocco!" she sighed, groping dramatically for a chair. South Wind "This poetic omission on the part of Perrelli to mention the sirocco?" South Wind The sirocco is the same, year after year, although there is a kind of conspiracy among the foreign residents to say that it happens to be worse than usual that particular season. South Wind In fact, I am thinking of casting the whole of this sirocco—material into an appendix. South Wind I have tabulated no less than fifty-seven varieties of sirocco. South Wind There it remained till, one day, during a potent sirocco tempest, the stone was uplifted by the force of the waters, and miraculously wafted over the sea to Nepenthe. South Wind |
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