1892, James Yoxall, The Lonely Pyramid Chapter 5, The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.
1828, Timothy Flint, The Western Monthly Review (volume 1, page 403)It gives a fine delineation of the burnings of shame, disappointed ambition, and vengeance...
1850, The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal (volume 91, page 93)The propriety of the dissolution, too, was speedily seen in the improved state of the public peace: for twelve years we hear little of Orange riots, and nothing of such burnings and wreckings as those of Maghera, Maghery, and Annahagh.