nor'-west

That armoury in the nor'-west tower, there-aye, well, some clever feller has laid a powder-train to he magazine, and there's enough loose powder lying about to give an artilleryman the trots-with a burned-out slow fuse in the middle of it!

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

So now you find Flashy beating nor'-west by south or whatever the proper nautical jargon may be, thundering amain o'er the trackless waste o 'waters - which I did by dossing for fourteen hours straight off, and if there was a typhoon it was all one to me.

Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

So now you find Flashy beating nor'-west by south or whatever the proper nautical jargon may be, thundering amain o'er the trackless waste o 'waters — which I did by dossing for fourteen hours straight off, and if there was a typhoon it was all one to me.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

So now you find Flashy beating nor'-west by south or whatever the proper nautical jargon may be, thundering amain o'er the trackless waste o 'waters - which I did by dossing for fourteen hours straight off, and if there was a typhoon it was all one to me.

Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

That armoury in the nor'-west tower, there-aye, well, some clever feller has laid a powder-train to he magazine, and there's enough loose powder lying about to give an artilleryman the trots-with a burned-out slow fuse in the middle of it!

Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

That armoury in the nor'-west tower, there-aye, well, some clever feller has laid a powder-train to he magazine, and there's enough loose powder lying about to give an artilleryman the trots-with a burned-out slow fuse in the middle of it!

Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

It is going to blow hard too, though that is no great matter, as we are sheltered by banks on the sou'-west and nor'-west sides, the likely quarters.

The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

Towards evening a nor'-west course was set, which the troops generally accepted as sufficient evidence that Colombo would be the next port of call.

The Tale of a Trooper 1930

Catshole, an 'over Brown Willy, an' round Roughtor to the nor'-west: an 'there lies the bravest quag -- oh, a black, bottomless hole!

The Splendid Spur Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Well, the water on board was beginning to smell; so he ran in through the nor'-west entrance of Providence

Lady Good-for-Nothing Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903