In the heavy battery of a sou'west gale, the boats drove apart.
The monkey, putting the sou in his mouth, swallowed it, and grinned.
And old Quiller, the fisherman, removed his sou'wester from his snowy head and peered at the visitor from under his hand.
Pango, Pedro, and the two sou'wegians only wanted a big drunk.
About tin years back I was crew to a sou' Boston market-boat.
As in the Rue Jessaint a sou is demanded in the middle of each dance.
Immediately on receiving Alie's message he came aft, and, having touched his sou'wester, waited for her to speak.
The wind had got into the sou' west, too—a delicious air, sappy!
A large bow window overlooks the park under a sou'-westerly sky.
He had not a sou of money for his passage, as he had not even been able to pay for an emigrant's ticket.
small French coin, 1550s, back-formation from sous, plural of Old French soul, formerly a coin worth one-twentieth of a livre, from Latin solidus (see solidus).
