On that last day of the long struggle up the stream, a stiff north-easter was cutting the middle reach of the mighty river, two miles wide here, into a choppy and dangerous sea.

Thanks to the brave North-Easter, we had gained in five days thirty degrees of heat, and had slipped out of December into May.

The North-Easter, too, was transforming itself more and more into the likeness of a south-west wind; say, rather, renewing its own youth, and becoming once more what it was when it started on its long journey from the Tropics towards the Pole.

Making my bow with as good a grace as possible under the circumstances, I take leave of the governor and am escorted by an aide-de-camp, resplendent in white and gold, through innumerable vestibules, and down the great marble staircase, to where my sleigh awaits me in the cutting north-easter and whirling snow.

A cutting north-easter was blowing, accompanied with snow and sleet.

It was still bitterly cold, with a strong north-easter blowing.

A keen, cutting north-easter sweeps across the white waste, and, riding for a time under the shadow of a low ridge of snow, I find my cigar frozen to my lipsnor can I remove it without painfully tearing the skin.

Towards sunset the wind rosea sharp north-easter that made face and ears feel as if they were being flogged with stinging-nettles.

If such primitive means can attain such satisfactory results, what could not modern agricultural science be made to do for Persia? Sunset brings a cool breeze, which before nightfall develops into a cutting north-easter, and we shiver again under a bourka and heavy fur pelisse.

From Westward Ho! ODE TO THE NORTH-EAST WIND Welcome, wild North-easter.

Welcome, black North-easter!

The brave North-easter!

But the black North-easter, Through the snowstorm hurled, Drives our English hearts of oak Seaward round the world.

This morning develops a north-east storm, during which the "Nancy Dousman" is wrecked, but all the cargo saved: a proof that the harbor is no refuge from a north-easter.

Wild and bleak it may be, hard and cruel at times it undoubtedly is, but, nevertheless, this north-east coast of ours is at all times inspiring, whether half-hidden by storm-clouds, its cliffs and hollows lashed by the "wild north-easter," or seen calmly brooding in the warm haze of a summer's day, its grey-blue water smiling beneath the grey-blue sky, and its stretches of sand and bents edging the sea with a border of gold and silver.

We prefer the keen north-easter; ten to one the scent's "breast high"; With a south wind hounds can sometimes hunt a fox, but seldom fly.

Until we had made two-thirds of our distance across the ocean, the winds had stood very much at south-west; and, though we had no heavy weather, our progress was good; but in 20° east from Greenwich, we got north-easters, and our best tack being the larboard, I stood for ten days to the southward and eastward.

Southland is as cool as northern France, with an occasional southerly wind as keen as Kingsley's wild north-easter.