"Let her off a point or two gradually until you bring her head about sou'-sou'-west, and keep her so.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea] Reference

We bore away, though, a couple of points more to the southward than before, steering sou'-sou'-west, towards the position of the wreck, as pointed out to us by our communicative friends, the strange ship.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference

Later on in the afternoon, however, another shift of wind took place, the gale veering to sou'-sou'-west in a squall heavier than any of its predecessors; while a heavy sea, flooding the decks, broke through the hatchway and put out the engine fires.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teddy The Story of a Little Pickle] Reference

This was more than two hundred miles out of our proper track, and far too much to the eastward to be able to weather the northern extremity of the Spanish coast, which would soon be perilously near to us, running as we then were to the sou'-sou'-west.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference

The barque was then brought to the wind on the port tack under the lower maintopsail, and she lay-to pretty well; but the wind kept on veering and beating with frequent squalls from sou'-sou'-west to west, so that at noon a strong gale prevailed again fiercer than before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teddy The Story of a Little Pickle] Reference

With this, we hauled our wind; and, by bracing the yards sharp up and keeping her full and bye, we were able to bring the ship's head a bit more to the westward than we had been previously sailing, steering now south-west by south instead of sou'-sou'-west as before, which was as near as we could get her to proceed in the direction where the lookout man had reported the vessel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference

No doubt Rooney gave "sou'-sou'-west" in some sort of Eskimo jargon with which we are not acquainted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Rooney The Last of the Crew] Reference

"No," he continued, "that's where it was, just sou'-sou'-west, for I took the bearing of it when I saw it the third time; and I thought that, in case of anything being wrong, it wouldn't be amiss to mask the binnacle light.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rover's Secret A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba] Reference

"It is quite plain to me," said Rooney -- who, being in some sort at sea, was, as it were, more at home than his companions -- "it is quite plain to me that we have got fairly into the great Polar current, and are travelling in a sou'-sou'-west direction down Davis Straits.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Red Rooney The Last of the Crew] Reference

The weather cleared up before sunset, and the wind subsequently began to blow steadily from the southward and eastward, showing that we had at length got into the wished-for "trade;" so the ship soon had all plain sail set on her again, now heading, though, sou'-sou'-west on the port tack, and making a bee-line almost for the island of Trinidad off the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea] Reference

I don't kinder think it's more'n fifty mile, though, sou'-sou'-west o 'whar the shep is now. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Fritz and Eric The Brother Crusoes] Reference

No -- no -- Captain Wallingford -- here's the wind at sou'-sou'-west, and we're heading nothe-east, and-by-nothe-half-nothe already, with that fellow abaft the mizen riggin '; as soon as we get a p'int more to the nor'ard, we'll have him fairly in our wake. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore"] Reference