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Definition of Sciroccos
1. scirocco [n] - See also: scirocco
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sciroccos
Literary usage of Sciroccos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Egypt and Mohammed Ali, Or, Travels in the Valley of the Nile: Or, Travels by James Augustus St. John (1834)
"But these violent sciroccos, so favourable to those descending the stream, are
often fatal to ... sciroccos ..."
2. Italy: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm, Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1903)
"In summer the thermometer occasionally rises to 104° Fahr., but only during
violent sciroccos, which do not occur on more than 12 days annually, ..."
3. Southern Italy and Sicily: With Excursions to Malta, Sardinia, Tunis, and by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1908)
"In summer the thermometer occasionally rises to 104° Fahr., but only during
violent sciroccos, which do not occur on more than 12 days annually, ..."
4. Southern Italy and Sicily: With Excursions to Malta, Sardinia, Tunis, and by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1908)
"In summer the thermometer occasionally rises to 104° Fahr., but only during
violent sciroccos, which do not occur on more than 12 days annually, ..."
5. Memoirs of Father Ripa During Thirteen Years' Residence at the Court of by Matteo Ripa (1861)
"... in the same manner, while at Naples the weather passes from one extreme to
another in the course of the same day, owing to the prevailing sciroccos. ..."
6. Letters and Correspondence of John Henry Newman During His Life in the by John Henry Newman (1891)
"Sometimes there were sciroccos and very trying, the wind like a furnace. The clouds
were blue, the tawny mountains looking wondrous. ..."
7. In the Desert by Lisle March Phillipps (1905)
"To all these coasts the sciroccos of old brought the imps of the desert.
Every town, and village, and hamlet learnt to recognise in them the sworn enemies ..."
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