A storm blowing from the northeast.
1 The chill, damp wind sighing drearily across the forest presaged a northeaster .
2 Your father's been like a drizzling northeaster all day.
3 A northeaster in one place may be an easter, a norther, or a souther in some other locality.
4 The Chesapeake can kick up a sea, give it a northeaster , that would gratify the most hungry tar.
5 I judge, sir, there'll be a heavy northeaster setting in upon us afore the morning watch is called.
6 The measured mile was soon reached, and then in the teeth of the northeaster she tore through the water.
7 A northeaster had set in along the coast, and the guests of "Wake Robin" were driven indoors.
8 Every northeaster will shift a buoy placed in the channels of these three inlets, so they are not buoyed.
9 The rowers pulled hard, but a stiff northeaster straight from Japan was blowing against them, and they made but little headway.
10 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.
11 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.
12 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.
13 Would a perpetual Northeaster lay us open to perpetual gratitude?
14 Yet do we not have " northeasters " both winter and summer?
15 The prevailing winds on Walden's Ridge are from the southwest; northers and northeasters are of rare occurrence.
16 Don't you shrivel at every window to let in the northeasters and all the snow-storms that walk abroad?
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