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  • A south-wester now will take us up along the coast of the island.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Megan Arkenberg 2010

  • A south-wester now will take us up along the coast of the island.

    A Sorcerous Mist Megan Arkenberg 2010

  • By the next morning our patience was already quite exhausted, but not so with the south-wester.

    The South Pole~ On the Way to the South 2009

  • When we started the next morning it was overcast and thick, and before we had gone very far we were in the midst of a south-wester, with snow so thick that we could hardly see ten sledge-lengths ahead of us.

    The South Pole~ The Start for the Pole 2009

  • With a temperature of - 65º F., and a velocity of twenty-two miles an hour, the south-wester swept over the Barrier, and whirled the snow high into the air above Framheim; but in their tents the dogs lay, full-fed and contented, and felt nothing of the storm.

    The South Pole~ A Day at Framheim 2009

  • I have noticed the Mirísi (south-wester) and other winds in the Land of

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Cary volunteered, and returned in a couple of hours with some quantity: but he was on board again only just in time, for the south-wester had recovered the mastery of the skies, and Spaniards and English were moving away; but this time northward.

    Westward Ho! 2007

  • The ground was unpleasantly pitted and holed; the camels were weak with semi-starvation and the depressing south-wester; Lieutenant

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • With a temperature of — 65° F., and a velocity of twenty-two miles an hour, the south-wester swept over the Barrier, and whirled the snow high into the air above Framheim; but in their tents the dogs lay, full-fed and contented, and felt nothing of the storm.

    The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

  • When we started the next morning it was overcast and thick, and before we had gone very far we were in the midst of a south-wester, with snow so thick that we could hardly see ten sledge-lengths ahead of us.

    The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the 'Fram', 1910 to 1912 2003

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