"Northwester" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Ann turkey for Boston.—South Carolina prefers dark meat.—Fifty thousand glasses of eau sucree at once, and the rest simultaneously.—Now give us the nude mahogany, that we may talk over it.—Bridget becomes as a mighty wind and peels off the immeasurable table-cloth as a northwester strips off the leafy ...
— The Atlantic Monthly , Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 • Various
... tried in vain to make himself heard. All other sounds—a voice, for instance, two yards from your ear—were drowned by the trumpet of the strong northwester. All through the past night, we listened to that note of war; we could feel the railway carriages trembling and quivering, as if shaken by some rude giant's hand, when they halted at any exposed station; and, this morning, the pilots ...
— Border and Bastille • George A. Lawrence |
