In Virginia City-which is a city on a desert mountain side-you cannot conceive of such a place-the wind was blowing a hurricane; blowing as at the old home, it comes in sometimes from the ocean in a southeaster.
"The Comstock Club"
Charles Carroll Goodwin
southeaster always break up in a flurry like this from the west.
"The Blood Red Dawn"
Charles Caldwell Dobie
But before it came a change of wind; preceding which, as the southeaster died, there were a few moments of calm.
"Ralph Granger's Fortunes"
William Perry Brown