 | John Boyd Greenshields - 1800 - 174 pages
...a loud voice, Fall upon your face, for here is the Simoom ! I saw from the South-East a haze come, in colour like the purple part of the Rainbow, but not so compressed or thick. It did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high from the ground. It was a kind... | |
 | James Bruce - 1805 - 430 pages
...loud voice,' Fall upon your faces, for here is the simoom.' Mr. Bruce saw from the SE a hazecorte, in colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not so compressed or thick. It did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve —^. feet high from the ground. It was... | |
 | John B. Greenshields - 1806 - 164 pages
...with a loud voice, Fall upon your face, here is the Simoom,. I saw from the south east a haze come, in colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not so compressed or thick. It did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high from the ground. It was a kind... | |
 | Henry Robertson (M.D.) - Atmosphere - 1808 - 452 pages
...voice, " Fall upon your faces, for here is the simoom." I saw from the south-east a haze come, in the colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not so compressed or thick: it did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high from the ground : it was a kind... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 722 pages
...loud voice, fall upon your faces, for here is the simoom. I saw from the south-east a haze coming, in colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not so compressed or thick. It did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high from the ground. It was a kind... | |
 | Voyages and travels - 1815 - 500 pages
...with a loud voice, " Fall upon your faces, for here is the simoom." I saw from the SE a haze come, in colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not so compressed or thick. It did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high from the ground. It was a kind... | |
 | R. P. Forster - Voyages and travels - 1818 - 508 pages
...loud voice, “Fall upon your faces, for here is the si¿ moon!” .1 saw from the SE a haze come, in colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not so compressed or thick. It did not occupy 20 yards in breadth, and was about 12 feet¿ high from the ground. It was a kind of... | |
 | Louisa Stuart Costello - English poetry - 1825 - 178 pages
...reverberation of the sun's beams." —Notes to Koran. NOTES. 157 " I saw from the SE a haze come on, in colour like the purple part of the rainbow; but not so compressed or thick: it did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high from the ground. It was a kind... | |
 | George Paxton - 1825 - 598 pages
...Simoom ! Our celebrated traveller upon this turned round, and saw from the south-east, a haze come in colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not so compressed. It did not occupy twenty yards in breadth, and was about twelve feet high from the ground. It was a... | |
 | Thomas Hartwell Horne - Bible - 1825 - 630 pages
...and, when sufficiently near to admit of being observed, it appears like a haze, in colour resembling; the purple part of the rainbow, but not so compressed or thick. When travellers are exposed to a second or third attack of this terrible blast, it produces a desperate... | |
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calling out that the Simoom was coming, he immediately turned for a moment to the quarter whence it came. It resembled a haze, in colour like the purple part of the rainbow, but not so compressed or thick; it was a kind of blush upon the air; and was... 
