| Like a storm driven bird she was off in the wings of a northwester, lying far over even under the greatly reduced sail. |
| His engine played out and he got blown off by a northwester. |
| By the second day of the northwester, Sheldon was in collapse from his fever. |
| She headed thence for Portsmouth, when she was overtaken in the Channel by the northwester. |
| They've got no harbour there at all with a cat's paw of a breeze, let alone a northwester. |
| All might still have gone well had the northwester continued as it was. |
