Norther

"I could understand it," continued Captain Miles as if reasoning with himself, "keeping on like this if we were in the Gulf of Mexico now, for it looks like what they call a norther there; but I've never heard of one of those winds being met in the Atlantic." ❋ J. [Illustrator] Schonberg (N/A)

All Replies from steve182 wrote 48 weeks 6 days ago for the small streams in norther Pa. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As far as part (2) is concerned, considering that Al Zarqawis group was known to have a terrorist training camp in norther Iraq and that Atta, according to intelligence reports before the invasion in 2003, met with Iraqi officials … that takes care of the terrorist connection. ❋ Unknown (2005)

All Texans understand the significance of the word "norther" -- a storm or tornado, usually preceded by a hot, stifling atmosphere, with drifting dust, accompanied by sheet or forked lightning and claps of terrific thunder, followed by wind and rain, sometimes hail or sleet, as if the sluices of heaven were drawn open, ending in a continued blast of more regular direction, but chill as though coming direct from the Arctic regions. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

"You are getting your first taste of what is known as a norther; but there isn't the slightest danger if we can crawl away from the land, and we shall have no trouble in doing that so long as there is a full head of steam on." ❋ James Otis (1880)

The "norther" lasted two days, the greater part of which time we were lying to, under a close-reefed main-topsail; and when the gale abated, we found ourselves further north than at its commencement, and not far from ❋ John Sherburne Sleeper (N/A)

He ought to change places with me, cause I'd rather be a live girl any day than a norther which is what Gale wants to be and that is one reason I am going to keep a dairy as she may find it usful when she gets to be famus like St. Elspeth's sister Ester. ❋ Ruth Alberta Brown (N/A)

He encountered a "norther" on the coast of Cuba, and the Edwin struck on the Colorado Reef, and all on board perished! ❋ John Sherburne Sleeper (N/A)

In a few hours a regular "norther" had set in, and the ships beat to pieces on the ledge before the end of the day. ❋ John Masefield (1922)

On one occasion a "norther" came up, and for several days the seamen could not get back to their ships. ❋ Willis J. Abbot (1898)

Alvarado, but just as he was about ready to begin a bombardment his pilots predicted a "norther," and he hoisted the signal, "Return to the anchorage off Vera Cruz." ❋ Willis J. Abbot (1898)

Then the thermometer would frequently drop to thirty and forty degrees below zero, and there would be a cutting "norther" fit to freeze the very marrow in one's bones. ❋ Edward Stratemeyer (1896)

At Hempstead a "norther" struck the town and the temperature dropped. ❋ Daniel Frohman (1895)

Thus comes the "norther" [60] dousing gentle spring and amiable autumn with the chilling salutes and adieux of coming and departing winter. ❋ O. Henry (1886)

If anything at all resembling a "norther" had been blowing, the landing would necessarily have been postponed until it had blown over. ❋ William Osborn Stoddard (1880)

Ned was staring at them and recalling all the yarns he had heard concerning the destructive power of a gulf "norther," when Captain Kemp came walking slowly toward him, with a face which appeared to express no sort of unusual concern for anything in the world. ❋ William Osborn Stoddard (1880)

One night in the Bahama Channel, while booming along toward the Banks to the nor'west of us before stiff trades, I was called in the first watch by Victor, to come up quickly, for signs of the dread "norther" were in the sky. ❋ Joshua Slocum (1877)

Soon not a vestige remained of the flying herd, and happy it was for them they made good their retreat, and gained a place of refuge ere the "norther" burst in all its keenness on the unprotected plain. ❋ Unknown (1872)

A coasting-vessel drawing five feet of water will anchor off Apalachee Bay in eight feet of water, at the commencement of a "norther," and in four or five hours, unless the crew put to sea, the vessel will be left upon the dry bottom of the ❋ Unknown (1869)

When the strong wind blows off the coast on to the Gulf, it is known to seamen as a "norther," and so violent are these winds that their force, acting on the sea, rapidly diminishes its depth within twelve or fifteen miles of the marshes. ❋ Unknown (1869)