siroc
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siroc (plural sirocs)
- Synonym of sirocco
- 1801, Robert Southey, “(please specify the page)”, in Thalaba the Destroyer, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] [F]or T[homas] N[orton] Longman and O[wen] Rees, […], by Biggs and Cottle, […], →OCLC:
- like the blasting Siroc of the sands,
The ruin of the royal voice
Found its way everywhere
- 1809, Lord Byron, Stanzas Composed During a Thunderstorm:
- Full swiftly blew the swift Siroc,
When last I press'd thy lip;
And long ere now, with foaming shock
Impell'd thy gallant ship.
- 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:
- I listened to every blast of wind as if it were a dull ugly siroc on its way to consume me.
- 1876, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Test:
- These the siroc could not melt,
Fire their fiercer flaming felt,
And the meaning was more white
Than July's meridian light.
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