His physical courage and indomitable will, sufficient to face the fierce Nor'westers within the very walls of their stronghold, was displaced by a nerveless weakness that banished self-control.
Macleod was only biding his time till Dunvegan should rear up Fort Kamattawa, the new post with which he intended to shut out Nor'westers from the Katchawan Valley.
The lake offered no means of escape, neither did the morass, and the Nor'westers held the slope.
Their guns belching fire across the dark, the hardy band zigzagged among the trees, covering their retreat to the cove with a rattling fusillade that kept the pursuing Nor'westers at a distance.
They thrilled at the sight of the brawn going forth to build Kamattawa to shut out the Nor'westers from the Valley.
He heard the chug of bullets through the rotten logs, the oaths of his men, the battle cry of the rushing Nor'westers who had been craftily lying in wait.
That's a peculiar habit these roaming Nor'westers have.
The cowing of the Nor'westers' huskies was coincident with the overpowering of the Nor'westers themselves.
Before the Nor'westers could compass another surprise they would have to reckon with the cunning Ojibway.
Bind the drunken Nor'westers in the trading room," he ordered the men.
The dogs of the Nor'westers had been fed to keep them quiet.
The Nor'westers were shooting from the incline above the cove and their bullets spat in the water.
Beyond rose the craggy ridge called Mooswa Hill, a landmark to the Hudson's Bay men in times of quiet, a pillar of fire when the Nor'westers struck.
I can stand pilot, and I promise to carry the schooner where twenty sow-westers will do her no harm.
Southward she thundered while the westers held, Proud, with taut bridles, pawing, but compelled.
It was during the first summer of my life in the Malvern Hills, and whilst the nor'-westers were still steadily setting their breezy faces against such a new fangled idea as a lawn.
Drawing the small hatchet which like all Nor'westers I carried in my belt, I rushed at the bear and made a cut at its head with all the force that lay in my arm.
In spite of the cordial relations between the Nor'westers and Lewis and Clark, these fur traders cannot conceal their fear that this trip presages the end of the fur trade.
The Nor' Westers not only did this, but passed down the middle of the Rockies for nearly a thousand miles.
Nor' Westers say that Governor Semple caught the bridle of their scout and tried to throw him from his horse.
Mr. Astor countered by engaging the best of the dissatisfied Nor' Westers for his Pacific Fur Company.
That led to the fearful ruin of the lawsuits that overtook Nor' Westers and Hudson's Bay in Canada only fifteen years before.
The Nor' Westers struck back by discouraging the colonists, shipping them free out of the country, and getting possession of their arms.
How could the next party of Nor' Westers take him back into the fold and grant him a partnership ostensibly without the knowledge of the North-West annual council, held in Fort William on Lake Superior?
In Canada the French sided with the Nor' Westers and X.
Lords of their own field, the Nor' Westers rejected Mr. Astor's proposal with a scorn born of unshaken confidence, and at once prepared to anticipate American possession of the Pacific coast.
The Nor' Westers jockeyed the Astorians out of their possessions and were in league with murderers at the massacre of Seven Oaks; but the Nor' Westers were jockeyed out of existence by the Hudson's Bay under Lord Selkirk.
At the very time when war endangered the entire route of the Nor' Westers from Montreal to the Pacific, the Hudson's Bay Company awakened from its long sleep.
Whether the Hudson's Bay had such intentions or not, the Nor' Westers were determined to prevent the possibility.
And now to his force came a tremendous accession--all those dissatisfied Nor' Westers thrown out of employment when their company amalgamated with the Hudson's Bay.
A certain Captain Rogers hastened towards the line of the Nor'westers and threw up his hands.
While this work was being done the Nor'westers in London were burning with wrath at their inability to hinder Lord Selkirk's project.
Nevertheless, the Nor'westers were not undisputed masters of the situation.
The Nor'westers were quick to seize the occasion to strike at the struggling colony.
There he had quarrelled with a surly-natured trader known as Crooked-armed Macdonald, with the result that Robertson had been dismissed by the Nor'westers and had come back to Scotland in an angry mood.
Many of the settlers brought to the east were indignant at the treatment they had received at the hands of the Nor'westers and were prepared to testify against them.
Having been a servant of the Nor'westers he knew the value of Canadian canoemen in the fur trade, and, on his advice, the Hudson's Bay Company now imitated its rival by employing voyageurs.
The Nor'westers had concealed themselves behind a clump of trees.
Joined by the deserters from the colony, the Nor'westers pitched their camp a short distance down the river from Fort Gibraltar.
In these were almost a hundred armed Nor'westers under the command of Archibald Norman M'Leod of Fort William.
He upbraided them for their failure to interfere when Duncan Cameron had been forcibly removed to Hudson Bay, and he spoke harshly of their sympathy for the colonists when the Nor'westers had found it necessary to drive them away.
Information had been received at Colony Gardens that the Nor'westers had stored a quantity of provisions in their trading-post at the mouth of the Souris, a large southern tributary of the Assiniboine.
The tenor of this letter would indicate that only a portion of the Nor'westers were ready to adopt extreme measures against the settlement.
Among the Nor'westers were men of great worth and integrity.
The water dripped off the rims of our sou'westers in dismal fashion, and the fog hung like a blanket around the ship, while the sea lapped her sides unseen.
The starboard men came slowly up, rubbing their eyes, buttoning their oilskins, and tying their sou'westers on by a string under their chins as they walked.
Here had the Indians summarily sent ashore all of the Nor'westers who had been with De Courtenay and who had followed in the uncertainty of fear, not daring to desert lest they be overtaken and massacred.
Sir Nicolas Gawsey hath for succour sent, And so hath Clifton: Ile to Clifton straight King.
If it were so, I might haue let alone The insulting hand of Dowglas ouer you, Which would haue bene as speedy in your end, As all the poysonous Potions in the world, And sau'd the Treacherous labour of your Sonne K.
Enter Dowglas, he fights with Falstaffe, who fals down as if he were dead.
A report, equally false, was brought to the Governor, that the North-Westers had assembled a strong force of half-breeds to attack the fort.
The North-Westers read the proclamation, and--prosecuted their business as before.
The North-Westers seeing them approach, halted, and standing to their arms, sent forward one of their number to demand whether Mr. Semple and his party were for peace or war.
The Nor'-Westers had no time to defend themselves.
Already, as a hunter chases a deer, had the great governor chased Nor'-Westers from Red River.
But while the Hudson's Bay Company could ship their peltries directly to England from the bay, the Nor'-Westers labored under the disadvantage of many delays and trans-shipments before their goods reached seaboard at Montreal.
On the other hand, the Nor'-Westers might bribe the Iroquois to stay with them.
Some twenty men in various sou'westers and other headgear were eating thick slices of bread and butter and drinking hot coffee, which with foresight had been prepared for them in the pier buffet.
As a result of the new undertakings set on foot by the North-westers and the reawakened Hudson's Bay Company, both companies entered the Columbia Valley.
He made overtures to the North-westers for a partnership, but they declined.
The North-westers had heard of the Astor enterprise in New York and realised that they must be up and doing if they would control the land of the Oregon.
The North-westers "rustled" for new business in new regions.
As a result of that war the Pacific Fur Company sold out to the North-westers, and a few years later the North-westers united with the Hudson's Bay Company under the name of the latter.
This assertion of sovereignty set on fire the Nor'-Westers and their sympathizers.
At Drummond Island, being the last British garrison toward the West, he got from the Indians news of the efforts of the Nor'-Westers to involve them in the wars of the whites.
The last acts of Governor Semple as the report of them was carried westward and repeated over the camp fires of the Nor'-Westers and their Bois-brulés horsemen and voyageurs caused the most violent excitement.
The influence of the Nor'-Westers in Montreal was so great that the U.
To this course Robertson, knowing the irritation which this would cause to the Nor'-Westers strongly objected.
It is to the credit of the Nor'-Westers that they restrained themselves and avoided a general conflict, but evidently they only bided their time.
He had broken down single-handed a system of organized terrorism in the heart of North America, for the Nor'-Westers never rose to strength again.
The Nor'-Westers were also by a good number of years the first occupants of the Red River district.
Even the avenues of Government power seemed by influential Nor'-Westers to be closed against him.
The climax of feeling was reached when Governor Macdonell, who was with the Colonists at Pembina, issued a most unwise proclamation, which to the Nor'-Westers seemed an illegality if not an impertinence.
The nor'-westers are a very remarkable feature in the climate of this settlement.
The nor'-westers sometimes blow even in mid-winter, but are most frequent in spring and summer, sometimes continuing for a fortnight together.
The nor'-westers are vulgarly supposed to cause freshes simply by melting the snow upon the back ranges.
To do the Nor'-westers justice, they were unaware of the intensity of the pain they were inflicting.
In less than half-an-hour one of the younger among the Nor'-westers came bounding towards them, waving his cap and shouting.
But from the very opening through which he meant to plunge into the tangled thicket, there issued the leader of the Nor'-westers and two of his men.
A shout from some one that Nor'-Westers were coming, coupled with the hasty preparations, might have enlightened a mind much less intelligent than that of the old woman.
Daniel Davidson was engaged in a very important conversation with old Duncan McKay at the time the formidable troop of North-Westers swept through the settlements.
If the North-Westers could only see that the establishment of a colony in Red River would in no way hinder the fur-trade, we could all get along peaceably enough together.
If it wass not for the jealousy an' ill-will o' the North-Westers we should hev been at this goot hour in our comfortable houses amang the green fields of Rud Ruver.
Some twenty men in various sou'-westers and other headgear were eating thick slices of bread and butter and drinking hot coffee, which with foresight had been prepared for them in the pier buffet.
The moment the report was heard, a volley was fired by the North-Westers upon the Hudson Bay party, which killed a few, and wounded many; among the latter was Governor Semple.
Early in June the lawless spirit followed by the Nor'-Westers again showed itself.
He was convinced that the Nor'-Westers had no legal right to the Hudson's Bay Company lands over which they traded.
The report of disturbances having taken place between the Nor'-Westers and Hudson's Bay Company employes at Qu'Appelle was heard, as well as renewed threats of disturbance in the colony.
Coming from the meeting of the Nor'-Westers in Grand Portage, in 1814 Cameron took up his abode in Fort Gibraltar, and according to the story of his opponents did so with much pomp and circumstance.
The Nor'-Westers laid their plans with skill, and determined to send one expedition from Fort William westward and another from Qu'Appelle eastward, and so crush out the opposition at Red River.
The Nor'-Westers denied having arrested these persons, and to give colour to this assertion immediately sent them over to Lord Selkirk's encampment.
Among all the Nor'-Westers there was no one who had more of the Scottish pride of family than John McDonald, of Garth, claiming as he did to be descended from the lord of the isles.
We shall speak again of his part in leading the movement inland to oppose the Nor'-Westers in the interior.
The oldest fort in this valley belonging to the Nor'-Westers seems to have been built by a trader, Robert Grant, a year or two after 1780.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "westers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
