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Examples
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Then the nor'wester caught us and drove us on the lee shore.
Chapter 5 2010
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Well, she's bought one, though I wouldn't give her ten shillings for it if a nor'wester blows up, and it's about time we had one.
Chapter 16 2010
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Her assumption of equality with him was disconcerting, and at times he half-consciously resented the impudence and bizarreness of her intrusion upon him -- rising out of the sea in a howling nor'wester, fresh from poking her revolver under Ericson's nose, protected by her gang of huge Polynesian sailors, and settling down in Berande like any shipwrecked sailor.
Chapter 6 2010
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She's not worth tuppence on it if any kind of a sea kicks up, and it's ripe for a nor'wester any moment now.
Chapter 16 2010
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That big nor'wester would have finished her the first three hours it blew.
Chapter 19 2010
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The 11th is a crisp fall morning with the sun glinting off the East River from a spotless hard-blue sky and a brisk nor'wester whistling through the concrete canyons, raising everyone's spirits and somehow conveying a sense of promise.
Tony Hendra: No Terror Funding? Consider the October Surprise 2008 2008
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By the way, what we see coming on here is a little nor'wester out here in Montana, and may even get rained on.
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By the way, what we see coming on here is a little nor'wester out here in Montana, and may even get rained on.
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It was near midnight by this; and ever since dusk I had been tracking the naked moors a-foot, in the teeth of as vicious a nor'wester as ever drenched a man to the skin, and then blew the cold home to his marrow.
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But this served only to stimulate the already keen energies of the Federal forces, who waded knee-deep through the clear Potomac, and trudged along over the 'sacred soil' with a willingness unchecked by the cold nor'wester that raged on that July morning.
yarb commented on the word nor'wester
Nor'Wester is a shortened version of North-Wester (variously spelled); historically, a North West Company agent, wintering partner or servant; a trader or engagé who winters in the hinterland; or a veteran of these experiences. In the plural the term may refer to the NWC itself. A native or resident of the Northwest Territories, usually non-Indian, may be called a Nor'Wester, but in the literature of the fur trade the term is usually associated with the NWC and its members.
- The Canadian Encyclopedia.
May 21, 2008