His engine played out and he got blown off by a northwester. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
The visa free northwester African country is now the favorite destination for illegal immigrants from the Philippines. From Wordnik.com. [Morocco transit point for illegal immigrants to Europe] Reference
Yet this, were it not for the time it happened, was to the surrounding tumult, as a dying sigh to the roar of a northwester. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1] Reference
Hurricane warnings are out from Florida City and up through St. Augustine and Lake Okeechobee, as well, and the northwester Bahamas. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2004] Reference
Bridget becomes as a mighty wind and peels off the immeasurable table-cloth as a northwester strips off the leafy damask from the autumn woods. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
"This little northwester will blow every weariful thought away.". From Wordnik.com. [A Knight of the Nets] Reference
It can handle a mild northwester, and turns on in offshore Berg winds. From Wordnik.com. [Muti] Reference
By the second day of the northwester, Sheldon was in collapse from his fever. From Wordnik.com. [Adventure] Reference
After this snowstorm the wind changed to a strong, extremely cold northwester. From Wordnik.com. [Forty years a fur trader on the upper Missouri: the personal narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872] Reference
A northwester was blowing, and the weather-wise said that there would be snow ere morning. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Roll] Reference
"They've got no harbour there at all with a cat's paw of a breeze, let alone a northwester.". From Wordnik.com. [The Manxman A Novel - 1895] Reference
"A northwester," whispered Tim aside to the functionary; "half and half, tallow chops -- eh!". From Wordnik.com. [Tom Cringle's Log] Reference
JON WATTS: We had a really bad northwester in the spring, and our straps broke on our roll-up vent on the side. From Wordnik.com. [Marketplace] Reference
She said the wind - a keen northwester - blew her dress up above her knees in spite of her efforts to the contrary. From Wordnik.com. [Memorials of a southern planter,] Reference
In November, Anchor announced plans to sell 11 branches in northwester Wisconsin, a sale expected to close this summer. From Wordnik.com. [JSOnline.com] Reference
Like a storm driven bird she was off in the wings of a northwester, lying far over even under the greatly reduced sail. From Wordnik.com. [Boy Scouts in the North Sea The Mystery of a Sub] Reference
The northwester still continued, with a clear blue sky, without a cloud overhead by day, and a bright cold moon by night. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Cringle's Log] Reference
All other sounds -- a voice, for instance, two yards from your ear -- were drowned by the trumpet of the strong northwester. From Wordnik.com. [Border and Bastille] Reference
ISLAMABAD - The army says its troops have rescued 79 people who were among a group abducted by Taliban militants in northwester Pakistan. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Headlines - ABC 7 News] Reference
ISLAMABAD — The army says its troops have rescued 79 people who were among a group abducted by Taliban militants in northwester Pakistan. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
ISLAMABAD (AP) - The army says its troops have rescued 79 people who were among a group abducted by Taliban militants in northwester Pakistan. From Wordnik.com. Reference
ISLAMABAD (AP) -- The army says its troops have rescued 79 people who were among a group abducted by Taliban militants in northwester Pakistan. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The position of our army after the Tullahoma campaign was on the northwester base of the Cumberland range, in camp occupying McMinnville, Tullahoma. From Wordnik.com. [The Army of the Cumberland] Reference
Vard himself was masterly: his talk rattled through my hesitations and embarrassments like a brisk northwester sweeping the dry leaves from its path. From Wordnik.com. [The Greater Inclination] Reference
Towards the evening a strong northwester was so kind as to sweep all the clouds away, that had blackened our sky, and moistened our skins, for some time past. From Wordnik.com. [The Westover Manuscripts: Containing the History of the Dividing Line Betwixt Virginia and North Carolina; A Journey to the Land of Eden, A. D. 1733; and A Progress to the Mines. Written from 1728 to 1736, and Now First Published] Reference
Still, a man isn't like a whale or a porpoise, that takes the, air in his nostrils, and never knows whether it is a southeaster or a northwester that he feeds upon. From Wordnik.com. [The Pilot] Reference
The two caracoas used as tenders could not follow because of a choppy sea, and a fresh northwester; they crossed within the bay, and under shelter of the land to the other side. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Philippine Islands] Reference
On rising in the morning we found about five inches of snow on the ground, and it was still snowing; but the wind soon changed and a cold northwester made it impossible to work. From Wordnik.com. [Forty years a fur trader on the upper Missouri: the personal narrative of Charles Larpenteur, 1833-1872] Reference
Army Rescues 79 From Taliban In Pakistan - The Pakistani army says its troops have rescued 79 people who were among a group abducted by Taliban militants in northwester Pakistan. From Wordnik.com. [Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now] Reference
For sheer havoc, there is no gale like a good northwester, when it roars in, through the long winter evenings, driving the spindrift before it between the rocky walls of the fjord. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Hunger] Reference
At three it rose one one-hundredth of an inch, and almost simultaneously, looking over the weather rail, was to be seen the oncoming northwester, never long in debt to a southeaster. From Wordnik.com. [From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life] Reference
A wild northwester was blowing down from the mountains, one of those beautiful storms that wrap Denver in dry, furry snow, and make the city a loadstone to thousands of men in the mountains and on the plains. From Wordnik.com. [The Song of the Lark] Reference
A heavy SW. flow, indicating the approach of a strong northwester. From Wordnik.com. [Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine] Reference
A stiff northwester on the 22nd August, lasting over the greater part of two days. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter] Reference
"wild northwester" had been with us then, I doubt if he would not have abated of his enthusiasm. From Wordnik.com. [Border and Bastille] Reference
Oh, the glories of a northwester!. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Cringle's Log] Reference
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