Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as sirocco.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Poetic See sirocco.

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  • noun poetic sirocco

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12 1919

  • 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

  • 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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