I dare not face it, any more than I would the blast of the simoom. |
It is subject to constant dust-laden winds variously known as sirocco, khamsin, simoom and harmattan. |
It is of old a native of the East, sister of the tornado, the earthquake, and the simoom. |
In Africa you have the upas, the fierce compound of simoom and tornado. |
Her winds encompass the ruagh, the khamsin, the simoom, the leveche, the zephyr. |
The simoom, sirocco, samiel, and kamsin seem to be modifications of the same wind from the desert. |