At first the Nor'-Wester feeling had been one of contempt for the Colonists and pity for them in their hunger and miseries.
This he thought to be a plan of the Hudson's Bay Company, to regain their failing prestige and to strike a blow at the Nor'-Wester trade.
The oily Nor'-Wester Highlander then threatened the people that if the Governor would not submit to the law, the whole body of settlers would be dispossessed of their farms and driven away from the banks of Red River.
It would have been a subject of constant amusement had the Nor'-Wester been in operation in the days of Judge Thom and his policy of repression.
Even now they shifted suits of sails; they bent The storm-suit ready for the expected time; The mighty wester that the Plate had lent Had brought them far into the wintry clime.
V The wester came as steady as the Trades; Brightly it blew, and still the ship did shoulder The brilliance of the water's white cockades Into the milky green of smoky smoulder.
After that she wore a sailor's jacket and a sou'wester when she was on the sea, and tumbled about the water like a duck.
It was perfectly delightful, and for all the world like plunging into a stiff sou'wester off the rocks at Contrary.
One of the Nor'-Wester apologists stated to Governor Sherbrooke "that the mode of proceeding under Lord Selkirk's orders resembled nothing British, and exceeded even the military despotism of the French in Holland.
Here he found William McGillivray, with whose name the fur traders conjured, and under invitation from the Governor the former Nor'-Wester and his family joined the party in crossing the Rockies.
The Nor'-Wester partners have been sent to the East.
The old Nor'-Wester influence centred on the St. Lawrence, and while the final court of appeal met in London, the forces that gave energy and effect to the decrees of the London Board acted from Montreal.
The veteran Chief Factor, McLoughlin, who had served his term in the Nor'-Wester service about Lake Superior and Lake Nepigon, was appointed to the charge of the Pacific or Western District.
The latter was opposed to the proposed destruction of the Nor'-Wester fort, knowing the excitement such a course would cause.
Here, too, was the Nor'-Wester fort of Pembina House.
One of the most notable leaders on the Nor'-Wester side was Duncan Cameron, who has the distinction of being the last commanding officer of Fort Gibraltar.
With numb fingers inside my thick mitten, I drew aside the ear- flap of her sou'wester and shouted: "It is nothing new.
I was wearing the oilskin slicker and had pulled down the brim of my sou'wester to keep the sun from my eyes; therefore they had not recognized me before.
When in Wester Buccleuch my life was much more lonely, and became more tinged with thoughts and feelings of a romantic cast.
Another year in the same capacity I was with a shepherd in Wester Buccleuch.
With one spring he was at her side, seized her in his arms, and imprinted on her lips what her father afterwards called the "stiffest nor'wester he'd ever seen.
I tried to protect my face, for my sou'wester only protected well the back of my head.
I left off my sou'wester and oilskin garments and sea-boots, and I said to them: "We have had rough weather together on this stormy Arctic sea.
Between the brim of his dripping sou'wester and his turned-up collar showed a pair of very humorous eyes, a determined-looking nose and mouth, and a pair of large ears reddened by the cold and rain.
It was so dark that they could not see the look-out man, who was holding the brim of his sou'wester over his eyes to shield him from the rain and the spray, and trying to pierce the blackness of the stormy night in front of him.
He replaced the piece of perished tarpaulin that had once been a sou'-wester on his head, and set off slowly across the shingle towards the village.
He got ponderously out of the boat and removed a tattered sou'wester to scratch his head with his thumbnail--another trick that had survived the adventurous days of the Dogger Bank.
Tubbs, though less demonstrative, was equally delighted, and upset the inkpot over the chart, in his eagerness to exhibit to Wester their new home.
Well, I fancy youngWester might do," said Gayford.
As he spoke with a certain air of knowledge he buttoned a sou’wester strap high under his chin.
The morning was lovely and the brisk nor’wester blew away all memory of the fog.
Before any of his hearers attempted to question him, he jammed the sou'wester on his head and ran up the stairs.
His dark blue uniform was flecked with white foam, and a sou'wester was tied under his chin, otherwise his appearance gave little sign of the wild tumult without.
His slippers and sou'-wester is the only clothes he's got aboard.
The only alteration he made in his dress was to substitute his sou'-wester for the bonnet, and in this guise he did his work, while the aggrieved Tommy hopped it in blankets.
Sometimes it would glide out of a sea-boot or a sou'wester hat.
He had a bronzed but cheerful face, and was clad in oil-skins from his sou'-wester hat to his boots.
The priest tied the strings of a sou'wester under his pink chin.
Oilskins and a sou'wester transformed him again to the seaman that he was, and he climbed the narrow iron ladder into the howling darkness of the upper bridge with a brisk readiness to meet any situation.
I fancy I can still feel the salt sting of that sou'-wester we faced together.
Ross, who had been watching with keen interest the manoeuvres of the rivermen, stood with his shoulders against a buttress of the dam, muffled in sou'wester and oilskins.
Coolly the younger man lifted his sou'wester and ran his fingers through his hair.
I could see that he wore an oilskin and sou'wester and judged him at once as a fisherman.
I had a hat--a sou'wester but it's in a cave away down the beach.
It had been necessary to wash the sou'wester for a long time in sea water before bringing it back.
She was She in her old dress that he knew so well, and still carrying the sou'wester he had fetched from the cave where she had done that chap in, and as for any idea of being under an obligation to her for food or housing he had none.
She rose up and leaving the oilskin coat and sou'wester on the floor of the cave came out on to the beach.
The loss of her only towel, the lump of cotton waste, was far worse than the loss of the sou'wester and would have been worse still only that she had other things to think about, especially on these journeys.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wester" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: easterly; mistral; norther; west; westerly
