northwester

Updated: June 4, 2025

He has, certainly, a wonderful partiality to one tune, and he has a prodigious self- confidence in that one, for he delivers himself like a northwester sweeping across the lake. But come, gentlemen, our way is clear, and the sleigh waits. Good-evening, Mr. Grant. Good-night, young lady remember you dine beneath the Corinthian roof, to-morrow, with Elizabeth.”

James Fenimore Cooper - The Pioneers