sou'westers

The men's unaccompanied voices offer up shanties that are salted with both sea and tears; when they rub their sou'westers, you can see the wind rising ominously.

Bound 2010

After the exhibition, I stopped by at a branch of Nauticalia, the mail-order company that has a chain of stores specialising in replica binnacles, ship's wheels and hurricane lamps, as well as pennants, guernseys and sou'westers: many homes in Britain must look like the bridge of a spanking new 1950s trawler, with inhabitants dressed as spanking new 1950s trawlermen.

First toys, then models and now works of art 2010

Kindly blue eyes and weather-beaten faces look at you from under the sou'westers, while blue jerseys, long sea-boots with curled-over tops and oil-skins, complete the sea-going outfit.

Denmark M. Pearson Thomson

Beckets and cleats, fixed into the walls of the sitting-room, held and secured against any possible damage the pipes, fish-lines, dolphin-grains, and sou'westers of the worthy Captain; and here he and his sat, when he was at home, through the long winter evenings, in simple and not often idle content.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Various

My heart sank, as I thought how sick of all this he will be in a few weeks, when the days draw in, and the skies scowl, and the windows are washed, and the house rocked under the fierce sou'westers that sweep up the floor of the Atlantic, and throw all its dripping deluges on the little hamlet of Kilronan.

My New Curate P.A. Sheehan

So they waved their sou'westers and shouted a merry good-bye to him as he rowed into the gray blanket of mist that shrouded the sound.

Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast Frank V. Webster

"I think if we wear our coats and sou'westers we'll be dry enough."

Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue and Their Shetland Pony Laura Lee Hope

The men had removed their sou'westers and their caps when we came up to them.

Sweetapple Cove George van Schaick

Here a group of fishermen in guernseys and high boots, their sou'westers battened down upon their heads.

Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper James A. Cooper

The others all retired into the next room and came back shortly, wrapped in raincoats and sou'westers, each one carrying a knobby package.

Entertaining Made Easy Emily Rose Burt