42 Metaphors for east

This Gorgeous East is a cold and draughty place.

The boy did not know for certain where they were going; but he noticed that the farther east they flew, the livelier it was on the lake and the more built up were the shores.

[the Captain] has gone East must be an error we have not seen or heard of him here M L H" DE PROFUNDIS CLAMAVI!

East of the house was a long lawn, secluded from the open Park by a beautiful, wildly growing hedge of gorse, berberis, bramble, hawthorn, and wild roses.

Fifty li east from the city was a garden, named Lumbinî, where the queen entered the pond and bathed.

No cheerful breeze this sullen region knows, The dreaded east is all the wind that blows.

There is no lack of pessimists, whose wisdom has found its poetic form in the words of Kipling: East is East and West is West, And never the twain shall meet.

The East, the Old World, was his proper sphere for self-development.

The interpretation, I conceive, is briefly this: Every Speculative Mason is familiar with the fact that the east, as the source of material light, is a symbol of his own order, which professes to contain within its bosom the pure light of truth.

Up to fifty years ago the Passenger Pigeon was extremely plentiful everywhere east of the great plainsthere were many millions in a single flock sometimes.

Still further east, and surrounded by forest, on a small stream, was Coe's carding machine and fulling mill, to which a by-way led from the State road, at a point near Parker's.

Three miles north-east of Yeovil is the interesting church and manor house at Trent.

East and south is that beautiful and still lonely country that lies between the oldest Wessex and the sister, and ultimate vassal, kingdom of Sussex; the country of the Meonwaras, a region of heather hills and quiet pine combes that stretch down to the Solent Sea and the maritime heart of EnglandPortsmouth.

Fifty miles south-east from them is a rich and great province, or island, called Lochae.

Two miles south-east of it was another opening of more importance, almost forming a channel quite through the flat at the entrance, which extended three miles off the north-west side of Middle Point.

Farther east is the Yao culture, an early Austronesian culture, the people of which also lived in the mountains, some as collectors and hunters, some going over to a simple type of agriculture (denshiring).

Farther east is a modern effigy, much admired, of Bishop Harold Browne, who died in 1891.

"East?" "That's no great matter either.

Now, however, since the East has become a favorite field of travel, and the Frank possesses an equal dignity with the Moslem, the native Christians are beginning to hold up their heads, and the return of self-respect will, in the course of time, make them respectable.

East of the grape region is an area peculiarly adapted for the cultivation of tobacco; and east of the tobacco district, north of the coastal belt of wheat in a region of sandy scrub, the bush country, are the ostrich farms, in the hands mainly of men of considerable capital, who supply nearly all the feathers derived from the domesticated ostrich.

The East of London, which is the old city, is, as all know, the business quarter.

East of the Delamensen are the Horithi; and north of the Delamensen are the Surpe; to the west also are the Syssele.

By Schlegel's theory, the East, especially India, was the earliest seat of arts and sciences; from the Sanscrit, or Indian language, now extinct, are the Hebrew, the Chaldaic, the Greek, and many others of the most ancient tongues, derived; and from the wisdom and learning of the East "was the whole earth overspread."

One hundred miles south-east is Java the less[10], which is about two thousand miles in circuit, and is divided into eight kingdoms, each having its own language.

The land over the depth of this inlet which I have before spoken of, as being barren rocky heights, bounded our view to the southward; it bore South-South-East three miles, and lies in latitude 16 degrees 25 minutes South and longitude 124 degrees 25 minutes East being the farthest point we determined towards the centre of the continent.

42 Metaphors for  east