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- noun Plural form of
wester .
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Examples
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On these he wrote cipher and mysterious instructions, which only his men could understand, giving full information of the Nor'westers 'movements, bidding his people hold their own, and ordering them to send messages down to the new Hudson's Bay governor at Red River, -- William
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Once on the ground on Athabasca Lake, he divided his party into two or three bands and sent them foraging to the Nor'westers 'forts and hunting grounds up Peace River, down Slave Lake, at Athabasca itself.
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Such was the mood of the Nor'westers when they came back from their annual meeting on Lake Superior to Red River, and MacDonell fanned this mood to dangerous fury by threatening to burn the Nor'westers 'forts to the ground unless they moved from Selkirk's territory.
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Often, when wild drinking songs were ringing in the Nor'westers 'dining hall, the Hudson's Bay men would be brought in to furnish a butt for their merciless victors.
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Nor'westers 'fort, sent weekly commands to his men by means of the whisky kegs; but in the spring his trick was discovered, and the angry
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With these Robertson is to invade the far-famed Athabasca, whence come the best furs, the very heart of the Nor'westers 'stamping ground.
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Nor'westers 'threats, spite of the fact there would be no market for the colonists when they had succeeded in transforming wilderness prairie into farms, Selkirk's mad dream of empire seemed to be succeeding.
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( "westers") ships must run for refuge under the cliffs of Sinai.
The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Your poem reminds me of a lot of country westers songs: impossible, distant romance.
Amor y romanticismo 2008
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Your poem reminds me of a lot of country westers songs: impossible, distant romance.
Amor y romanticismo 2008
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