I suppose the sirocco hath been tossing the waters of the bay, and thy nets are empty.
Were we in Venice to betray precipitation in so weighty a concern, without seeing an immediate interest in the judgment, we should trifle with a gale of fortune that every sirocco will not blow into the canals.
He was not yet sufficiently roused from the bad temper and depression induced by the sirocco to appreciate the King's exalted mood.
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 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.
Tramontana and sirocco alternate, and each is more unendurable than the other.
The Dwellers from distant deep jungles and tall forests had only blistering iron bars between them and the sirocco that swept from the brick walls of the Greater City.
Sometimes the sunshine vanished when the sirocco raged--the 'ponente' the wind was called on that shore.
I presumed that the siroccodetained 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.
Oh, monsieur, when it is sirocco no one does any thing!
Sirocco or not, is this a reason why no one should come when I call?
Then there arose within him the fiercest struggle his gentle nature had ever yet known.
Love between man and woman must be forever young, even as Eros, Cupid, Krishna, are forever youthful gods.
It is high time; already we have had a week of this work: snow andsirocco one day, ice and snow the other.
In order to shun its effects, people sometimes shut themselves up in their houses, as they do in Italy when the sirocco is blowing.
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.
An hour before midnight a sudden and violentsirocco scoured the wady, the shower of dust and pebbles raised by its hot blast, being followed by a few heavy drops of rain, with a calm, still as the sleep of death.
The heavy sirocco that soon succeeded drove the waves athwart the islet of the ruins, effectually erasing its stains of blood, and sweeping every trace of le Feu-Follet and of the recent events into the sea.
The zephyr had come early, and it had come fresh; but there were symptoms of a sirocco about the barometer and in the atmosphere.
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.
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.
The sirocco was still blowing; and the largest breakers I ever saw were tumbling on the beach.
The sirocco was blowing, and a huge black wave rolled up before it from the south.
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 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 sirocco of north Sahara, the kamsin or chamsin of eastern Sahara, and the simoon of Arabia, which blow hot and suffocating from those deserts--why do they blow from heated surfaces and horizontally over cooler ones?
In the morning early Siroccoarose and cried: "Lionbruno!
And so one after the other all the winds entered, and the last to enter was Sirocco, for you must know that Sirocco is the youngest of Borea's sons.
His best known makes are Magic and Sirocco (see page 642).
The sirocco that blew every now and then in fitful, silent gusts, was damp, stifling, heavy.
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 above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sirocco" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
