Nearly every wave sent the spray flying high in the air as it struck the bow; but there was a hood to catch this, and besides both occupants of the motor-boat had donned oilskins before starting.
Finally the first detail had to make ready for their long tramp along the beach, and muffled in their oilskins they sallied forth.
Now, his oilskins hung out over the head, stretched on hoops and broomsticks, glistening in a brave new coat of oil and blacking.
Bunched up against the helm, a mass of oilskins glistening in the compass light, our 'lucky man' scarce seemed to be doing anything but cower from the weather.
The Dauber's head was cut, he felt it bleed Into his oilskins as he clutched and coiled.
The caller raised the lamp; his oilskins clicked As the thin ice upon them cracked and fell.
Nature an onslaught from the weather side, A withering rush of death, a frost that cried, Shrieked, till he withered at the heart; a hail Plastered his oilskins with an icy mail.
They got back into their oilskins and thick shoes, locked the door behind them and started out.
Their personal effects were disposed of in the stateroom; underclothing and such apparel in the chiffonier, toilet articles in the lavatory, sweaters and oilskins on the hooks, and shoes in the berth lockers.
The Four doffed oilskins and sweaters and got into respectable attire, and at half-past six went ashore for dinner.
There are two or three old gunny sacks around and we can spread those out, put ouroilskins on top and sleep finely.
They took off their oilskins and wet shoes, placing the latter near the flames where they soon began to steam prodigiously.
They had seen Dan off on the Bay State Limited and were on their way to the hotel for luncheon, the skirts of their oilskins wrapping around their legs and impeding progress at every gust of the wind that tore up the street.
I asked a fellow outside a place where they sold oilskins and he said about the same thing.
Nelson, pulled on his oilskins and hurried out to see that the fenders were in place.
As the eight strokes upon the bell proclaimed the expiration of the first watch, we donned our oilskinsand repaired to the deck in company.
Here he was ushered into a room where two men in sailor suits and three or four in oilskins sat about on benches.
Nodding, Dawson dived below, coming up soon in his oilskins and sou’wester.
Stopping in the motor room long enough to shed oilskins and headgear, and hearing Ham still snoring luxuriously, the young sailing master trod through the passageway, unlocking the cabin door, then locking it again after him.
The oilskins she and her sister wore and the huddling together of the four under the heavy poncho had generated a moist heat which probably helped to preserve the two delicate women from some type of deadly pneumonia.
It was with the greatest difficulty that those not clad in oilskinskept any garments on their bodies.
If it hadn't been for theoilskins we would all have been stripped stark naked," he went on.
Luckily a number of oilskins were kept in the chart-room of the Southern Cross; these were quickly served out to the shivering girls, whose clothing had practically melted away as though made of thin paper.
At home he flopped down into a bedroom chair and the mother took his boots and oilskins off--soothing him with cheerful "There now's" as she removed his clothing.
In the dark, Donald grabbed his boots and oilskins and Thompson shouted, "Hell's bells!
Beating at the stiff canvas with numb and bleeding fingers, they fought like devils for hold while the sleet slashed at their faces and the cold caused their oilskins to become as rigid as though cut from tin.
The boy had no coat or oilskins on, and he was almost frozen to death.
Decks gleamed wet like a city street on a rainy night; the slimy bodies of the fish and the oilskins of the men stood out vivid against the darkness where the light caught them.
Then the "hairy chesters" began to get busy, but the time had gone when oilskins could be re-oiled and dried in the sun.
During the night heavy showers had fallen, and in the oilskins we caught as much water as sufficed for our tea.
It did not take a second flash for the practised eye of the lone man in oilskins to recognize that this was the thing he had expected--even while praying God that it might not be.
He busied himself with odd jobs, patched oilskins and mended wooden shoes for the fishermen and became quite brisk again.
Woollen underclothing was unknown, and oilskins were things none could afford; a pair of thick leather trousers were worn--with stockings and wooden shoes.
At midnight he came downstairs again, he was in oilskins and carried a lantern.
From a diminutive cabin aft, the yellow flicker of a lantern feebly illuminated the bronzed features of an officer muffled in oilskins and sou'-wester.
Ignoring Raeburn's threats to call the surgeon, Terence hurried from his cabin, and having borrowed a pilot coat, donned his oilskins over the borrowed garment and went on deck.
Clad in oilskins Terence remained on the bridge throughout the terrible night.
Philosophically he agreed with the skipper that it was all in a night's work, and made a hurried bolt below to shed his saturated garments, for in spite of oilskins and sea-boots he was drenched to the skin.
It was pitch dark, and the wind that swept in rainy gusts along the battery caught the flaps of hisoilskins and buffeted the sleep out of him.
The tall man inoilskins leaning over the Destroyer's rail lowered his lantern.
The Officer of the Morning Watch, who was staring through his binoculars into the darkness, turned and glanced at the small figure muffled in oilskins at his side.
A precious lot of good they collars be--with sea-boots and oilskins on, and the water as cold as charity.
He divested himself of his wet oilskins and heavy boots before he spoke, and then he had some remarkable news to impart.
Joe slipped into hisoilskins and then took the wheel while Nat donned his foul-weather rig.
So saying, he rummaged two suits of oilskins out of a locker and hastened on deck.
I suggested that we should finish our council of war in the open, and we both donned oilskins and turned out.
A strong current was sluicing past our sides, and at the eleventh hour I was turned out, clad in pyjamas and oilskins (a horrible combination), to assist in running out a kedge or spare anchor.
For the eleven-shilling oilskins I was referred to a villainous den in a back street, which the shopman said they always recommended, and where a dirty and bejewelled Hebrew chaffered with me (beginning at 18s.
He glanced at the old captain, shivering in oilskins at the binnacle and holding on for dear life.
Hunters were staggering under two or three shotguns, a rifle and heavy ammunition box, all of which were soon stowed away with their oilskins and mittens in the boats.
In fact nothing had been forgotten; even three oilskins had been lashed, in the stern ready for the visitors in case it should rain.
Well, Arthur, what do you say to your oilskins now?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oilskins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
