The chill, damp wind sighing drearily across the forest presaged a northeaster.

Your father's been like a drizzling northeaster all day.

A northeaster in one place may be an easter, a norther, or a souther in some other locality.

The Chesapeake can kick up a sea, give it a northeaster, that would gratify the most hungry tar.

I judge, sir, there'll be a heavy northeaster setting in upon us afore the morning watch is called.

The measured mile was soon reached, and then in the teeth of the northeaster she tore through the water.

A northeaster had set in along the coast, and the guests of "Wake Robin" were driven indoors.

Every northeaster will shift a buoy placed in the channels of these three inlets, so they are not buoyed.

The rowers pulled hard, but a stiff northeaster straight from Japan was blowing against them, and they made but little headway.

This supposed course will convey the general idea of the track of a northeaster when it envelops the whole variable-climatic district of the Union.

He was drenched to the skin by the rain, that was driving fiercely along under the pressure of a strong northeaster, and shivering with cold.

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.

Would a perpetual Northeaster lay us open to perpetual gratitude?

Yet do we not have "northeasters" both winter and summer?

The prevailing winds on Walden's Ridge are from the southwest; northers and northeasters are of rare occurrence.

Don't you shrivel at every window to let in the northeasters and all the snow-storms that walk abroad?