A wind from the northwest.
1 A strong gale-force northwester will change to south-west after the front has passed.
2 All might still have gone well had the northwester continued as it was.
3 By the second day of the northwester , Sheldon was in collapse from his fever.
4 She headed thence for Portsmouth, when she was overtaken in the Channel by the northwester .
5 A northwester was coming up, and after his experience on the eve of Plassey, Desmond knew what that meant.
6 All other sounds- avoice ,forinstance, two yards from your ear-weredrowned by the trumpet of the strong northwester .
7 Vard himself was masterly: his talk rattled through my hesitations and embarrassments like a brisk northwester sweeping the dry leaves from its path.
8 A crowd in excess of 20,000 race-goers is expected and forecasters are predicting mainly fine weather with a northwester .
9 They were " northwesters ; " men seasoned to hardships, who cared for neither wind nor weather.
10 Mike Berridge explains that "the strong northwesters indicated for the west Cape interior and Namibia".
11 "This little northwester will blow every weariful thought away."
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