Huge "arctics" were strapped on his feet, from which seemed to spring, as from massive roots, his small, thin form, clad in a scanty robe de chambre of cotton flannel, surmounted by a broad sou'wester, carefully covered by a voluminous white pocket handkerchief.
"Adrift in the Ice-Fields"
Charles W. Hall
So it was no surprise to him, in the midst of a tale of the old days at Oxford on the football-field, to have a rat-tat like Poe's raven at the door, and a respectful "young visitor" doffing his sou'wester.
"Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North"
Fullerton Waldo
I could see that he wore an oilskin and sou'wester and judged him at once as a fisherman.
"The Man From the Clouds"
J. Storer Clouston
