1 It had become the crossroads of travel north and south and east and west, and the little village leaped to life.
2 He assaulted the Yankees on the east, he assaulted them on the west.
3 You can't go north or east or south or west.
4 As Rhett jerked the horse's head and turned him into another street, another deafening explosion tore the air and a monstrous skyrocket of flame and smoke shot up in the west.
5 I wouldn't put anything beyond the swarm of buzzards that's swooping down on Georgia now from north, east, south and west.
6 When Carol had walked for thirty-two minutes she had completely covered the town, east and west, north and south; and she stood at the corner of Main Street and Washington Avenue and despaired.
7 Pete Rustad owns this farm, and he told me he saw a small covey of chickens in the west forty, last week.
8 Always, west of Pittsburg, and often, east of it, there is the same lumber yard, the same railroad station, the same Ford garage, the same creamery, the same box-like houses and two-story shops.
9 She looked across the silent fields to the west.
10 The waves, too, nodded their indolent crests; and across the wide trance of the sea, east nodded to west, and the sun over all.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 61. Stubb Kills a Whale. 11 By the straits of Sunda, chiefly, vessels bound to China from the west, emerge into the China seas.
12 Now this doubloon was of purest, virgin gold, raked somewhere out of the heart of gorgeous hills, whence, east and west, over golden sands, the head-waters of many a Pactolus flows.
13 The sun shone into my bath-water through the west half-window, and a big Maltese cat came up and rubbed himself against the tub, watching me curiously.
14 The road from the post-office came directly by our door, crossed the farmyard, and curved round this little pond, beyond which it began to climb the gentle swell of unbroken prairie to the west.
15 The land was growing rougher; I was told that we were approaching Squaw Creek, which cut up the west half of the Shimerdas' place and made the land of little value for farming.