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Definition of Southeasters
1. southeaster [n] - See also: southeaster
Lexicographical Neighbors of Southeasters
Literary usage of Southeasters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Concise Analytical and Logical Development of the Atmospheric System: And by Thomas Belden Butler (1870)
"A similar lull sometimes occurs in southeasters with a fall of the thermometer.
... In a ma- ' jority of the southeasters, the wind hauls gradually round ..."
2. Two Years Before the Mast and Twenty-four Years After by Richard Henry Dana (1909)
"One had been made at the head of the creek, and boats discharged and took off
cargoes from a mole or wharf, in a quiet place, safe from southeasters. ..."
3. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative by Richard Henry Dana (1869)
"While all this was doing, we were to lie still in one place, the port a safe one,
and no fear of southeasters. Accordingly, having picked out a good berth ..."
4. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative by Richard Henry Dana (1911)
"But Captain Wilson tells me that the climate has altered; that the southeasters
are no longer the bane of the coast they once were, and that vessels now ..."
5. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"But Captain Wilson tells me that the climate has altered; that the southeasters
are no longer the bane of the coast they once were, and that vessels now ..."
6. A History of California: The American Period by Robert Glass Cleland (1922)
"With the exception of Monterey, these so-called ports afforded but poor protection
during the winter months against sudden southeasters; and vessels taking ..."
7. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"He did not like the drift of the low clouds off to the west; southeasters began
that way. It looked as though the wind might change. ..."
8. Impressions of South Africa by James Bryce Bryce (1900)
"... terror with which the Portuguese sailors five centuries ago used to see the
grim headland loom up through the clouds driven by the strong southeasters, ..."
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