Word: southwester
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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...lover of natural scenery unsurpassed by those of any locality on the Atlantic coast. The climate is equable, being about twenty degrees cooler in the summer and warmer in the winter than below the Cape. For a distance of some fifteen or twenty miles to the south and southwest of Plymouth the country is sparsely settled, and retains the wild beauty of its primeval state...
...Wind. - Southwest; gentle breeze...
...College bell strove to take a softer tone, as if from envy. Coming from the South, I had invited but a very moderate number of friends, and, at a comparatively early hour of the evening, I was alone. Stretched upon a lounge in my room, which is in the southwest corner of Hollis, I was enjoying one of Tom's best cigars, when I heard his voice beneath my window. I jumped up, thinking he had called me: but saw that he was merely enjoying a promenade with a certain Miss Margie Gray, whom I had met at his home...