Pullover raincoat

Usage examples of poncho.

Francisco shook his head, and Angelo reached into his poncho for an unmarked glass bottle, no doubt containing chicha, the local cure for sobriety and a functioning liver.

When I took the parcel out of the pocket of my poncho I thought it felt deuced heavy, and there, sure enough, was one of those shilling flasks of brandy they sell for chaps to go on the road with.

He remembered screaming in anger as German machine guns turned the Rapido River to white froth, the way his arms ached as he drove the sinking rubber raft across to the north bank where the brush was already full of the black helmets and cammo ponchos of SS Division Das Reich, the shells called by the spotters at Monte Cassino splashing down everywhere, half his squad dead or wounded, bodies sprawled on the bottom of his boat in a mixture of river spray and their own blood.

His tongue sought the taste of her, his hands lightly skimmed the peaks and valleys beneath her deerskin poncho and were gone before she could mouth the words to protest.

As the wind whipped their gray beards and water streamed down oilskin ponchos, Ston and Tulen took advantage of their captive audience to tell tales of legendary battles.

It is expansive and well fenced, her landscape, the quiet acres of her mind, and with a soundtrack: the tapping of the rain, the swipping of her poncho against the branches, the tinny jangle of the carabiners swinging from her backpack.

She sat Valerius down on a barstool and then pulled out a large box of Mexican ponchos, before she grabbed several of them and wrapped Valerius in them.

Two mozos de campo, picturesque in great hats, with spurred bare heels, in white embroidered calzoneras, leather jackets and striped ponchos, rode ahead with carbines across their shoulders, swaying in unison to the pace of the horses.

English clothes were discarded for a more Chilian garb, including a poncho and a broad-leafed sombrero.

From Spitz, I recruited one Shepherd and one Doberman, and from a civilian boy, Bobby, I recruited Poncho, a fast, muscular Shepherd.

There was no difficulty with the other dogs, and Poncho seemed to be thrilled with his Marine Corps experience.

Staging Area The rain was falling harder and the wind was picking up, and Fagin stood waiting in it, his plastic poncho blown flat and wrinkled against his broad back.

A terrible fire, by the light of which I saw the last of the fighting, the llaneros flying, the Nationals throwing their arms down, and the miners of San Tome, all Indians from the Sierra, rolling by like a torrent to the sound of pipes and cymbals, green flags flying, a wild mass of men in white ponchos and green hats, on foot, on mules, on donkeys.

It contained his poncho of breathable grintlaskin and an Orcadian sweater.

As Casey folded up the ponchos she had dragged out of the shelter, she heard them talking about Pilikia and how he had been in a very bad mood by the time they found him last night.