The Collaborative International Dictionary
South southerly \South` south"er*ly\ (Zo["o]l.) the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old.
Usage examples of "southerland".
Tell him Kate Southerland is here," she told the man when he had followed her into the lobby.
Clarissa, widowed early in the war, had been two years remarried to a Yank, John Southerland, lately a brigadier in the US Eighth Air Force.
All his delicately forming plans, estimations, guesses, regarding the Southerland affair, every theory that he had begun to play with in his mind, all vanished like the rising mist at dawn.
The snow and the dogs were all fine with the old man who stood looking out from inside the Southerland mausoleum, his eye to a small chink he had broken in one window of stained glass.
And at that moment, beyond Judy's face, beyond the undisturbed white that covered lawn and walk in front of the Southerland mausoleum, Joe saw the green-aged bronze of the building's door in motion, opening inward into a contrasting blackness.
Both the Southerland kids are home, they drove up a few minutes ago in someone's Caddy.
The unique thing about the Southerlands, I say in answer to my own question, is their special relationship with a very unusual protector, an old friend no one else in America can claim.
He mentioned the Southerland house, the parking lot of the Shores Motel, the Loop, the mausoleum in Lockwood Cemetery.
What he had to do now was show the world that Kate Southerland was still alive.
Judy Southerland followed the back of Bill Bird's blue shirt through the sunlight of highland New Mexico, along the pine-needle path that led from her cabin, past the schoolroom-studio where Bill taught and worked at sculpture, to the lodge that housed the school director's office.
He happened to be talking to them—they were working late hours at the time—when the report came in about a crazy-talking young man named William Bird, who said that he and Judy Southerland had been ambushed that very night by masked gunmen up in the hills.
She'd already learned that he had been a Chicago cop before marrying Southerland money.
John Southerland said meditatively, as soon as the door had closed behind one of them.
John Southerland was out on the paved and civilized walk along the rim.
In a matter of seconds he was speaking to Angie Southerland, young John's slightly younger wife.