单词 | northwester |
例句 | The University of Utah Seismograph Stations reports Tuesday night’s “light” earthquake of magnitude 4.2 was in the northwester Salt Lake Valley near the town of Magna. 4.2 magnitude aftershock hits Utah 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z A low-pressure system in the Midwest will drop up to three inches overnight on Cleveland, with nearly a foot of accumulation on Tuesday in the snowbelt of northwester Ohio near Lake Erie. Northeast Snowstorm: How Much Are We Getting? 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z This partial jawbone from England belonged to the earliest known modern human in northwester Europe. Modern Humans' First European Tour 2011-11-02T21:50:37Z Through autumn rains, and winter frosts and snows, and fierce northwesters, the poorly-built meeting-house stood unheated, growing more damp, more icy, more deadly, with each succeeding week. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z A strong northwester and its seas caught us beyond the Mumbles, and the quality of the sunshine thinned to a flickering stuff which cast only grey shadows. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z A northwester had scattered them and laid their bones out upon the pale Arctic wilds. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z By this time the portent of last night had been verified, and we had an overcast sky, with a strong northwester blowing in our teeth. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z Then there came a faint breeze from the southwest and from the west, and this evening the long-dreaded northwester has come at last. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I Nothing could escape its miserable contact, even sitting on the hearthstone its power was felt; and until a good northwester came to dissipate the damp moisture, nobody expected much from any one’s temper. An Orkney Maid His engine played out and he got blown off by a northwester. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good Like a storm driven bird she was off in the wings of a northwester, lying far over even under the greatly reduced sail. Boy Scouts in the North Sea The Mystery of a Sub "They've got no harbour there at all with a cat's paw of a breeze, let alone a northwester." The Manxman A Novel - 1895 At three it rose one one-hundredth of an inch, and almost simultaneously, looking over the weather rail, was to be seen the oncoming northwester, never long in debt to a southeaster. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life On the tenth day out, a northwester began to pipe and ripen to a gale as the sea rose with it. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Yet this, were it not for the time it happened, was to the surrounding tumult, as a dying sigh to the roar of a northwester. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 The unbroken stretch of prairie to the north and west of Otranto gave those old "northwesters" a splendid sweep before they struck our frail little homes. Old Rail Fence Corners The A. B. C's. of Minnesota History If he who sang the praises of the "wild northwester" had been with us then, I doubt if he would not have abated of his enthusiasm. Border and Bastille The cold northwester blowing from over the lingering Canadian snow-banks could not touch him, and he had the full benefit of the sun as it veered imperceptibly south from east. Jerome, A Poor Man A Novel "I must not in our present state quarrel with the northwesters—with crazy masts and no port or spars near us." The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain A northwester was coming up, and after his experience on the eve of Plassey, Desmond knew what that meant. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Light winds and thick weather now for rather more than a week, varied by a stiff northwester on the 22nd August, lasting over the greater part of two days. The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter All other sounds—a voice, for instance, two yards from your ear—were drowned by the trumpet of the strong northwester. Border and Bastille All might still have gone well had the northwester continued as it was. Overland In the afternoon, as I climbed a long, elevated ridge, over which a strong northwester was blowing, I was struck with a beautiful rustic church, in one of the dells below me. Views a-foot Ah, it makes one shiver even to think of those gloomy churches, growing colder, and more congealed through weeks of heavy frost and fierce northwesters until they bore the chill of death itself. Sabbath in Puritan New England Collins, my watchmate, had not escaped unscathed from the attack of this furious northwester, but being provided with a pair of stout boots, his injuries were much less than mine. Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale Still, a man isn't like a whale or a porpoise, that takes the, air in his nostrils, and never knows whether it is a southeaster or a northwester that he feeds upon. The Pilot "A northwester," whispered Tim aside to the functionary; "half and half, tallow chops—eh!" Tom Cringle's Log The two caracoas used as tenders could not follow because of a choppy sea, and a fresh northwester; they crossed within the bay, and under shelter of the land to the other side. History of the Philippine Islands For sheer havoc, there is no gale like a good northwester, when it roars in, through the long winter evenings, driving the spindrift before it between the rocky walls of the fjord. The Great Hunger Then the fall grew thicker, the gray sky contracted, the hurrying flakes, dashed against them by a fierce northwester, were larger, heavier, and seemed an almost palpable force that held them back. Sally Dows He has, certainly, a wonderful partiality to one tune, and he has a prodigious self- confidence in that one, for he delivers himself like a northwester sweeping across the lake. The Pioneers They were "northwesters;" men seasoned to hardships, who cared for neither wind nor weather. Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains By the second day of the northwester, Sheldon was in collapse from his fever. Adventure |
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