Is a "northeaster" a wind blowing to the northeast or from the northeast?. From Wordnik.com. [The Friday Brain-teaser from Credo Reference] Reference
About eleven o'clock, the storm struck, a full-blown northeaster. From Wordnik.com. [HISTORY: 1776--WASHINGTON'S WAR] Reference
But as bad as it is, even a northeaster is not as bad as the frozen ice we had. From Wordnik.com. [Storms Bearing Down on Holiday Travelers - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
Appears that our northeaster of last week killed the two eaglets on that nest-cam site. From Wordnik.com. [Further casualties of the storm] Reference
Nonetheless, it look as though, at least in Virginia, Edwards will be beaten by a northeaster. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 10, 2004] Reference
For the ship was now headed for the Straits, and steaming almost in the teeth of the brisk northeaster. From Wordnik.com. [All Aboard A Story for Girls] Reference
The measured mile was soon reached, and then in the teeth of the northeaster she tore through the water. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887] Reference
His only exhibit, it was open to the public until April 2007, when a northeaster hit Providence and the sub sank. From Wordnik.com. [The Navy Has a Top-Secret Vessel It Wants to Put on Display] Reference
So, I think for that reason, most of the water is going to pile up on the eastern and northeaster side of the bay. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 16, 2004] Reference
His brother was attacked and killed at Nyakatanda village, 15 kilometres from the northeaster Mukumbura border post, Pfebve said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
The water was calm, lapping the sand so gently that it was hard to believe that so gentle a murmur could ever swell into the roar of a northeaster. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure] Reference
The attempt to reach it appears both poetical and perilous to a looker-on, but may be accomplished without much more difficulty or hazard than in stemming a violent northeaster. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
'Classic' northeaster expected to batter region today. From Wordnik.com. [Boston.com Top Stories] Reference
During a northeaster, rain came in through the chimney. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Carell tees up a comedy] Reference
I hope this northeaster won't blow him off his perch. '. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag] Reference
In short there was every indication of a regular northeaster. From Wordnik.com. [Little By Little or, The Cruise of the Flyaway] Reference
And with an accent, Jerusalem! like a northeaster off the Banks!. From Wordnik.com. [The Bell-Ringer of Angel's] Reference
The chill, damp wind sighing drearily across the forest presaged a northeaster. From Wordnik.com. [A Busy Year at the Old Squire's] Reference
A northeaster blew up last night and this morning we are lashed by wind and rain. From Wordnik.com. [Chimney-Pot Papers] Reference
A fierce northeaster gathered strength as night fell, and a mighty sea began to heave in. From Wordnik.com. [A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell] Reference
Tom Hansen from the shop said they had pretty heavy beach erosion from the northeaster and the. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Stranded dolphin dies on Sea Bright beach] Reference
Forget about a hurricane or tropical storm; a simple northeaster event and the sand is long gone. From Wordnik.com. [tcpalm.com Stories] Reference
Tornado watches had been issued for northeaster Mississippi and south central Tennessee by mid-morning. From Wordnik.com. [The Daily Sentinel: News] Reference
Train service to the island was stopped in 1935 when a northeaster destroyed more than a mile of trestle. From Wordnik.com. [Press of Atlantic City: Editorials] Reference
Fishing bounced back nicely after the northeaster of last week, and now we have kind of the same kind of thing going on. From Wordnik.com. [Press of Atlantic City: Editorials] Reference
So we took one glance at the world below and hurried down the south side to get the mountain between us and the cold northeaster. From Wordnik.com. [Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897] Reference
Would a perpetual northeaster lay us open to perpetual gratitude? or is a soft south gale to be orisoned and vespered forevermore?. From Wordnik.com. [The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.)] Reference
Workers at an oceanfront resort hotel in Duck, N.C., found the bottle while cleaning up after this month's devastating northeaster. From Wordnik.com. [Press of Atlantic City: Editorials] Reference
And how they was all rescued by an old lobsterman who made two trips in a leaky tub of a motorboat out through a howlin 'northeaster. From Wordnik.com. [Shorty McCabe on the Job] Reference
When the steamer passed out of the breakwater into the English Channel she breasted a northeaster that lasted all the way to the Banks. From Wordnik.com. [Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter] Reference
We passed through a heavy sea, with a stiff northeaster blowing, but by morning the wind had moderated and the sun rose bright and clear. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of a naval life : including the cruises of the Confederate States steamers, "Sumter" and "Alabama",] Reference
Were called up at midnight to slip for a violent northeaster; for this miserable hole of San Pedro is thought unsafe in almost every wind. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference
A northeaster in the German Ocean must and will blow itself out; nor shall we get the crown of the gale until the sun falls over the land. From Wordnik.com. [The Pilot] Reference
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