| 单词 | west |
| 例句 | He looked to the south, to the east, and to the west, and he did not see the thing he was looking for. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z It seemed to Omakayas that every time the grownups began to talk, they discussed travel routes west. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Many believe that after York obtained his freedom, he traveled west again. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The 60 million Austroasiatic speakers are scattered from Vietnam in the east to the Malay Peninsula in the south and to northern India in the west. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He plunged and snowballed and tumbled and laughed until the sky in the west turned fiery orange. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z It was about 45 miles north-northwest of Key West and heading west. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z On the high-road there had been a gay west wind blowing in my face, making the grass on the hedges dance in unison, but here there was no wind. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The plane soars to the end of the valley, rises and turns elegantly, heading back toward the local airport to the west. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z Turned them west instead of east, abandoning his hopes of wedding Queen Daenerys? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "I've been here too long. I want to get away. My wife and I want to go west." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z “We come from the west of the Nile,” Uncle said. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z But you could hardly beat the shop’s setting—if you looked west, beyond nearby Brigham City, the Rockies exploded dramatically toward the sky. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Upon the east too sheer and stony was the valley’s side; upon the left, from the west, their final doom approached. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The dusk sky looked molten, as if it might explode in the west. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Caldwell is forty miles west, in the center of a flat plain known, for reasons that may have made sense long ago, as Treasure Valley. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There are many valleys to the south and west, all with farms, a store, a school. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Three hundred and fifty miles to the west, there was no need to find a catalyst for the zeal that could be created by a winning high school football team. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But the rare urge west had fixed upon our family, and so my aunt crossed boundaries not delineated in space. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Clouds were blowing in from the west, hiding the stars, and the Wailing Tower screamed mournfully at every gust of wind. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He did seasonal work in the lettuce and potato fields up north for a few years; then he stayed home, with the family, trying to keep up the west side house. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The tripods come ashore on the west side of Manhattan. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Two blocks to the west was a thin sliver of a park built into a rocky hill. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z By midmoming they could see lightning flickering to the west, followed by the distant crash of thunder. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He stood on the steps and looked at the morning stars in the west. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z They belonged to the woman who stayed under the bridge, with low tin walls to block the west wind. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Every morning I renewed his flag, and he wore it all the way west while bullets whined and whistled around us. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The sky above and to the west was still dark with thunder, and lightning far away flickered among the tops of hidden hills. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z They had to circle some distance west before they found a gap large enough to admit the horses. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z One road seemed to go off toward the west, the other road continued north. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z There were no signs of poverty, no signs of homelessness, no signs of drug abuse, no signs of the social fissures that were tearing apart America’s urban centers to the east and west. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z As a result, the Sun rises in the west and sets in the east, taking 118 Earth days from sunrise to sunrise. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Once the Stolls had passed, we forged deeper into the west woods where the monsters were wilder. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z In the space of ten years, new railroad lines were laid, track by track, four thousand miles, sprawling east, west, south, and north from the central terminus: Chicago. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “You shall go west and face the god who has turned.’ The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Using the sun and the fact that it rose in the east and set in the west, he decided that the far side was the northern side of the ridge. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z To his right, the flatlands of Berkeley and Oakland marched west—a vast checkerboard of neighborhoods, with several million people who probably did not want their morning interrupted by two monsters and a filthy demigod. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He left Fifth Avenue and walked west towards the movie houses. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z The sun had begun to lower toward the west by the time they were done. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The Governor stood a few yards to Pong's left, just west of the bridge's midpoint. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z The only road of old to Moria from the west had lain along the course of a stream, the Sirannon, that ran out from the feet of the cliffs near where the doors had stood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z And the vast house too, the silence of that echoing hall, the uneasy stillness of the west wing, wrapped in dust-sheets. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z No, I cannot believe a woman could maintain her virtue and serve honorably with the troops out west. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z If the survivors returned it would be to confirm the resolution to try again somewhere else, scurrying back east or ever west. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z My thoughts were all there in the west as the caravan went rumbling across the Kunderer Bridge and out of Mishnory. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z And I go around the front corner of the house and walk west, right past Mrs. Trent's window. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Water laps gently on the shore, and a warm wind from the west blows through the elephant-ear trees all as tall as Hyperion. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “That got your attention. The water park is a mile west on Delaney. You can’t miss it. Look for the Tunnel of Love ride.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z They were clustered on the east and west sides of town. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Like the sun it rose in the east, set in the west. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z He walked west rapidly, to get away from the crowd of people still waiting, and made it home without incident. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z To the west, the Demeter cabin and Grovers nature spirits had turned Sixth Avenue into a jungle that was hampering a squadron of Kronos s demigods. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He loped into the trees, keeping an eye out for a likely place to cut west. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Almost certainly some other European would have come along within a few decades and sailed west to the New World. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z We headed west, through desert and then mountains. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z To the west, between two of the flanges of the tree that spread out to be roots, was a cavity. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1906, looking for a place where Harry could make his mark on the world, the young family had left Williamsport, Pennsylvania, headed west, and settled down in Spokane, Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They drove south in the powerful car, while outside on the right the sagebrush plain stretched west, and the mountains rose on their left, dark and shining. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Very soon they came upon traces of blood which the rain had not yet washed away, and these they followed toward the ash tree in the hedge to the west of the warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They had gone only a short distance when Fiver, sitting up on an anthill to look about, saw a rabbit approaching over the high ground to the west. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He struck the middle of the west wall and from the east wall a bear came out. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z It bent somewhat towards the west so that at first all was dark ahead; but soon Frodo saw a tall gap of light before him, ever growing. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The sun was in the west and I had a long way to go to reach home, but I was curious about the hawk and the place he lived in. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z As the purple of the sky spread all the way across to the west, he rowed. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The late September sun was very hot on her back as she and Salvador turned west toward the ocean from the main street. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z The police found him on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, thumbing west. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z He was just standing there, he said, watching the moon, and then off to the west a column of silhouettes appeared as if by magic at the margin of the jungle. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They talked and decided to charge the west end of the soldier line. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Denuded mountains are visible to the west, towering sternly above the rooftops of adjacent double-wides. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He used the free time to walk around the west side, not sure what he was looking for. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z The star tumbled, a streak of light, through the night sky, and it tumbled down somewhere to the south and west of them. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Instead, the utility of the wheel surely caused it to diffuse rapidly east and west over the Old World from its sole site of invention. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Most of the athletes boarded buses heading west to the new Olympic village in Charlotten- burg, but the American oarsmen climbed onto two buses bound for the little village of Kopenick southeast of Berlin. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The magnificent Pharos lighthouse guided ships into the Great Harbor on the east side of the causeway and the Harbor of Good Return on the west. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Down west sinks the Sun: soon you will be groping. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Police found me two days later, wandering the dirt roads west of Calypso, wearing a grocery bag for underwear and covered in hickies I couldn’t explain. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Boston and New York have already been ravaged by the disease, with hospitals being filled to beyond capacity, and the deadly disease is moving west across the United States. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The lawn ran out into a narrow tongue between bright margins: on the right and west the Silverlode flowed glittering; on the left and east the Great River rolled its broad waters, deep and dark. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It should have stretched east and west, but it extended north instead. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He goes home to a studio in Morningside Heights, with two windows facing west, on Amsterdam Avenue. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s this cluster of boulders in the middle of the west woods that, if you look at it just the right way, looks like a huge fist sticking out of the ground. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z She was fairly sure even Baaz had never been so far west. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z You walked west on Main Street until it bent. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Turning me like the wind turns a leaf in a puddle, making the compass spin from east to west and round again. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “He couldn’t say for sure. Maybe east or west; maybe north or south. It was hard to tell. He said mostly she was sort of spinning around like a dust devil.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The boys had to walk around the mountain to get to the west side valley. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z I followed the highway east, and then south, then west, then north, and then east again, until I ended up at the same Meridian Street exit where I’d started. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Two are burning in Castaic, more than fifty miles west of us, threatening access to Castaic Lake—which millions from Los Angeles are trying to reach. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z There were wildfires out west, landslides on the other side of the world. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z If we did, we’d never be sent west to see our mother again. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z Then he got on the interstate heading west instead of east, and it took twenty minutes to turn around again. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z She made a vague gesture to the west, indicating, Lazlo supposed, the whole rest of the world. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Max had gone west to seek his fortune, and upon her blouse collar, Mrs. Brenner bore proof of his success—a tiny nugget of raw gold fashioned into a stickpin. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Since most of the Empire's garrisons are located east of the Scholars' Quarter, I head west. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z "North, south, east, or west, all we do we do in Robert's name." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Just west of the village he pulled back on the single rein to stop his horse. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z They could go no further forwards, and must turn now either west or east. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z What happened was, we crossed a muddy river and marched west into the mountains, and on the third day we took a break along a trail junction in deep jungle. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We’d been flying west across the country, just a few hours ahead of the sunrise, so it was still dark when we landed. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In 1763 King George III of England declared that no British subjects should settle on Indigenous lands in the Ohio Country west of a “proclamation line.” An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Maybe he could find a car and drive west to the ocean. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I recognize that gesture; it’s a common greeting in the Dhahabu Region of the west. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z It seemed to my memory that at first we’d walked north to get to the picnic site, and then we’d turned west. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “We travelled together from out west. He’s a good hunter.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He had sailed twelve hours at almost ten miles an hour before that, in the same direction, south and west. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z "When the sim rises in the west and sets in the east," she said sadly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Four or five of the bucks, with Clover, Hyzenthlay and Vilthuril, were feeding along the sunny west side of the hanger about an hour before sunset. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z To the west strives the Trojan prince Hector, his armor stained with the lifeblood of many Greek nobles. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Swift & Company, along with the other big meatpackers, moved out of Chicago to locations south and west. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z There was a kind of alcove in the west wall of the room, where Ged slept. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The water purification plant lay far to the east, and the little church Celia visited—could she still visit as an eejit?—was to the west. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z One freewoman had a sister in Delaware who’d gotten into difficulties; the sister came out west for a new start. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z As Japanese planes dove over Oahu, more than two thousand miles to the west, a few marines were sitting in a mess tent on Wake Atoll, having breakfast. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z From my seat I could look down on Thornfield: the grey and battlemented hall was the principal object in the vale below me; its woods and dark rookery rose against the west. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Not until they had dwindled into the distance, north and west, and the sky was again clear would Aragorn rise. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z You must admit your glorious King Degravaunt rode out of the west with his barbarian hordes bent on slaughter, and drove us out of the homes we’d lived in for centuries. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z To the west again was a shallow, dry downland combe, perhaps four hundred yards across and overgrown with weeds and rough, yellowing summer tussocks. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z When sunset was down to a faintly glowing ember in the west and the moon rose in the east, I went forth on my bicycle. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z The breeze is blowing cool air in from the west, and I figure I’m about as happy right then as you can get in your whole life. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Connor and I walk west for a long time without saying anything. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Follow the railroad tracks heading west of Manifest. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The student body of the school was nearly 100 percent black, reflecting the racial makeup of the neighborhoods to the west. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z For some reason the mountains to the west of the Salinas Valley have a thicker skin of earth on them than have the eastern foothills, so that the grass is richer there. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z On an impulse he turned the animal west rather than east and skirted the poppy fields to where he thought Celia’s little house lay. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Allied forces were pouring into Germany from east and west. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z To the west were the Black Hills, and to the east were the endless prairies. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Two determined explorers posed on a ridge and gazed at the mountains of the west, the mysterious country with its perils and discoveries before them. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Forming the west side of the quadrangle, King Hall had been built almost thirty years later for the University of Chicago’s education department. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z If the sun sets in the west, it always rises again the next morning in the east. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Coming from the west, the Pacific trade winds hit the cold air from the Humboldt Current and are forced upward in a classic temperature inversion of the sort common in southern California. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Yes, just a little farther west than the spring.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Alice lay on her side, her head at the west end of the grave. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Grandma points out where Incheon is on the west coast of South Korea. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The shot had come from somewhere near the west side of the building. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z In the west the clouds were still dark, but I said nothing. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, however, the sky was very dark off to the west, and every time the lightning flashed, the dark shape of the mountains would briefly appear. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z If she had friends she took to the west wing it was not exactly my affair. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I don’t drive north or south or east or west. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The sun was beginning to lower in the west, but the lure of something new was too great to resist. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “The sweetness of your offer is a good smell on the west wind.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The west dance floor was dark, I could see through the open viewing window. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The sun was setting on Islamabad by then, a flaming red nimbus in the west. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It was dark all day, as the wind veering around from the west again blew the pall of Drumner’s smoke on us. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z When autumn touched the trees he had got as far as Omaha, and without question or reason or thought he hurried west and south, fled through the mountains and arrived with relief in Southern California. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z From the look of their footprints, one small group had headed west in the direction Sefia and the boy had gone. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z All she had to do was paddle west, and eventually she would reach Zimbabwe. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Ser Meryn entered from the west side of the yard, clad in gleaming white plate chased with gold and mounted on a milk-white charger with a flowing grey mane. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Shadow drove west, then south, with five hundred and fifty dollars in his pocket, keeping off the interstate. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z It offers views of the sea to the west; the cliffs below, all strung with entangling wire; and directly across the water, a half mile away, the burning city of Saint-Malo. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z All the wealth that had once been Vermont’s seemed to be trickling south or west. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z As the boat rounded the Laurelhurst light and headed north, it hugged the west shore of the lake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He pulled the car off the Outer Drive at Seventh Street, drove north on Michigan Boulevard to Lake Street, then headed west for two blocks, looking for number 16. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He stood high up on his hind legs and looked west, so that the last of the sun colored his face a creamy brilliant yellow white amid the gloom. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “You have come to the opposite side of the house,” she said, “this is the west wing.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Armpit had installed enough sprinkler systems in west Austin to know that people worried about money over there just as much as they did east of I-35. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z I turned and we both went west, I hard put to keep up with him. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z I hardly had to paddle at all as the river bent to the west. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Even the discovery of new worlds, to the east and to the west, which one would imagine to be both positive and mind-broadening, was accompanied by genocide of the most sickening kind. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z ‘There are Elf-havens west of my land, the Shire, where Hobbits live.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z We went east through a fairly dense stretch of forest and then swung back west until we hit our coordinates. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z We drove on, an old bus and twenty-five cars and trucks, toward the developments west of town; toward the developments where I live. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They were supposed to be rowing from Maryland west across the Potomac to Virginia, then south. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Some shook their heads north and south, some shook their heads east and west There were others who, in the middle of our presentations, simply pointed us to the door. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z There were two such places on the island—one on the headland and the other less than a league to the west. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Where is your shelter if some stiff gale blows up from south or west— 370 the winds that break up shipping every time when seamen flout the lord gods’ will? The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z To the west, you could see all the way to the ocean, where an old-looking ship rigged with giant, complicated sails glided down the coast. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Since there was no further danger from the Cauldron-Born, and the hosts of the Horned King moved far below and to the west of the group, Taran deemed it safe to build a fire. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z An important breakthrough occurred in a squash court under the west stands of the University of Chicago’s Stagg Field, where Enrico Fermi had erected an atomic pile. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z A lone gust of wind from the west blows through the tree trunks. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It whips around Mars so fast it actually rises and sets twice a day, running west to east. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of taking the I-10 west directly to Baton Rouge, she was on I-10 heading east, with no way to correct her error. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Those that had felt the lowering pressure of the storm, before Frightful and Drum had felt them, had flown west to get around it. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Two other paths led down into the dingle: from the west and from the east. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Within days, however, more German soldiers are shipped on trains to the west. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z The sun was bending to the west, so he might not make it to the border before dark. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The convoy drove to Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque and from there flew to Hunter’s Point Naval Shipyard, near San Francisco, where the cruiser USS Indianapolis was docked, ready to take sail west. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z We drove east, we drove west, amidst the myriad villages that cling like limpets to the Mediterranean shore, and to-day I remember none of them. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z They came swimming out of the west, but as they saw the canoe they turned around in a great circle and began to follow me. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z To the west the yellow sandstone cliffs were beginning to catch the light. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Nor had I yet seen the worst of it: for now the west wind dropped, and a southeast gale came on—one more twist of the knife—taking me north again, straight for Kharybdis. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z His friends were at the bench nearest the west wall, laughing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Down that street up there, to the west.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I turned south, then west again, then was forced north for three blocks by loud soldiers spilling out of taverns. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z At the next spot where two rats cut cross each other, he turned the wagons west. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They floated high above the trees on the west end of the park, over the windmills. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Three other gateways, one in the middle of each wall, led north, east, and west. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He sat up, the better to look at the great mountains where they went piling back, growing darker and more savage until they finished with one jagged ridge, high up against the west. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Could all that talk of the Golden Company sailing west have been a feint? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Then the winds took it and swept it upward toward the west, and it was gone. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z To the west, along the crescent of the Gulf of Naples, the lights of sleeping cities glittered in the predawn gloom. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Nico pointed to a small stone building on the west end of the courtyard. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In addition, Khoi herders west of the Fish River of South Africa traded with Bantu farmers east of the Fish River, and continued to dispense with farming themselves. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I put it in gear and steer until the compass finds west. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Then in 1960 core samples showed that the ocean floor was quite young at the mid-Atlantic ridge but grew progressively older as you moved away from it to the east or west. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Since leaving the traffic on the George Washington Bridge they had sped up; now they were headed straight west, fast. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Some said they had never seen them; and some said that they had seen them walking away west, and some said east, and others south. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z A couple of times Fossie approached her and tried to talk it out, but Mary Anne just stared out at the dark green mountains to the west. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, you should tell your whole school, the whole west side, east side, all of Detroit that I’m your man.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z They wandered outside onto the balcony, just the two of them, and sat close together in the evening breeze facing west. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z A massive curving staircase dominated the west side of the room. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “Well, he’s cutting irrigation water into his father’s piece of property over there on the west side.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z White electric ferries made their way back and forth, shuttling fans over to the west side, where an observation train awaited them, its thirteen white-skirted flat cars outfitted with bleachers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It tipped slowly, still buoyed on the magnetic field of the east, west, and south anchors, but it had lost its balance, like a table with one leg cut away. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z David held her close along the west shore, looking for any sign of man. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Those wagons regularly drove west toward the forested slopes, where they loaded wood for the stoves in the fort. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z “Yes, in the west. It just started turning a profit this year.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Nhamo rounded the headland and saw, to her relief, that the shore did extend west. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The road was just wide enough for two carts to pass abreast, so whenever a wagon headed west passed one going east, both had to slow to a crawl. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The sim was well to the west by the time the slope began to flatten beneath the hooves of their horses. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Due west seven, middle west seven. Leaves plots north and south. I told him better the northwest seven. If I was going to sell. It’s hilly anyway.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Indeed, thousands of squatters had already claimed nearly a million acres of land west of the mountains. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z By now the sun was getting low in the west, settling into the high mountains beyond the woods. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z “Then if we watch the sun, we can always go west. If we go west, we will come to Haiti.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z But they were a long way off, and the sky overhead was still a spotless blue as we steamed west. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z The west wind had shifted northward and it was turning colder, but the rain was gone. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “Sun rises in the east. Sets in the west.” Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “I love when we go on location!” said Scruffy as the van rumbled west. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z In the west they could not make out either the line of the Hedge or the valley of the Brandywine beyond it. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z As the sun disappeared over the west ridge, the last of the orange light moved up the hill on the east, with the darker shadow climbing up after it. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “Concentrate on making those clouds—the ones over there, in the west—making them bigger and darker. Think gray skies and driving winds coming down from the arctic. Think snow.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Imagine a traveler going west with two clocks. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z A smarter girl than me might have wobbled a bit at the thought of heading west to prove up a claim. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Frequently, the people on the west bank would have to leave their cars along the shoulder of the highway and try to wade across the raging creek just to get to their homes. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z For east or west all woods must fail... The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Mo took the coastal road, which Elinor had said was built by the Romans, and followed it farther west. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “I don’t know, the valley west of Tam Ky, I think. ” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Over on the highway he could see headlights and taillights moving east and west, but he felt alone, as if that world were distant from him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z From east to west in the Old World, the Macedonian Empire and the Roman Empire both spanned 3,000 miles, the Mongol Empire 6,000 miles. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The wind this morning was from the west. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Because I do a little Internet search and learn that Sears moved their company offices out to the suburbs years ago, about thirty-five miles west—so far away, they can't even see their huge tower. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Red sank to ashes in the west, and ash-grey sank to black. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z "We better be careful. I'll go around west, see if there's some road. There must be if you saw a wagon. You take the shore. If you need help, bark like a dog." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Her folks had come west from Amarillo, Texas, and had made a little money in the aircraft plants but not enough yet to get out of Cabrillo Homes. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z We sat there on the rock until the sun was in the west and played this game. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Ashley River runs parallel to this road,” he said, pointing to the west. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z After settler forces defeated the Cherokees in 1776, one group of Cherokees strongly opposed to ceding any more land moved farther west. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z They left as quickly as they had come, going on into the west, but for a long time I could see the last of the sun shining on them. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z To the west lay the ancient Grunewald forest, where sixteenth-century German princes hunted stags and wild boars and where Berliners of all classes nowadays enjoyed hiking, picnicking, and foraging for mushrooms. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z We didn’t pause that time, just ran, still west. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Only the brightest stars were visible, all to the west. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Over the next few months, as the extent of the devastation settled in, the trickle of ragged refugees that Joe Rantz had witnessed heading west the previous summer became a torrent. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z One Sunday in the spring of 1983, I walked into a small bookstore that sold used paperbacks, next to the Indian movie theater just west of where Amtrak crossed Fremont Boulevard. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The palace loomed east of them, but to the west was a line of trees. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z I thought maybe I might stop in a phone booth and give old Jane Gallagher a buzz before I started bumming my way west, but I wasn't in the mood. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z “It looks like that whole street has them, all along the west side.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z They claimed that possession of the entire world west of that line would be open to Spanish conquest. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The first time, it was the rumble of rockets in the west, coming from the direction of Rarteh-Char. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z We recovered our balance and listened as the train picked up speed and headed west. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z And he did— first to the east then to the south then to the west and finally to the north. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “So where do I go? Who’s this god in the west?” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z They had come out of the forest at last, many miles to the west, had found a thinly populated valley, had started their farm. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z From the far end of the Long Bridge, it was only a short walk through the teeming waterfront districts of the west bank, down torchlit streets crowded with sailors, slaves, and drunken merrymakers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The only alarm came when they startled four partridges, which whirred away over the hedge to the west and sailed down, spread-winged, into the field beyond. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A quarter moon lay low in the west, not giving enough light to tempt anyone to stay up late. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She said, “Uh-uh. My daddy is. Folks say there’s work out west so he’s going to try again.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z The eastern frontier, where Dacca was located, was fighting for autonomy from the ruling regime in the west. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The whole ice pack was moving in a clockwise direction, sweeping west and north with the current, up along the Antarctic Peninsula. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z In 1835, the ship left Lima, on the coast of Peru, and headed toward a lonely spray of charred volcanic islands west of Ecuador—the Galápagos. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Somewhere to the west. They have been doing this for four or five summers now. But I don’t remember seeing this many.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z So when Janie looked out of her door she saw the drifting mists gathered in the west—that cloud field of the sky—to arm themselves with thunders and march forth against the world. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I take the nurse’s elbow and pull, I want to know which way is west. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Arrows from the west slope arced and flew down the east slope. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z He has offered to drive you down to that spot I wrote you from so often—three miles north and west of Vida, Montana. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The senators made their way to a big white-domed building on the west end of the forum. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Then next furthest away and to the west were some big clouds which were colored slightly orange because it was nearly evening and the sun was going down. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It had been spreading quietly along the Kinshasa Highway, a transcontinental road that wanders across Africa from east to west and passes along the shores of Lake Victoria within sight of Mount Elgon. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Drunkard's Tower, off in the bog where the south and west walls had once met, leaned like a man about to spew a bellyful of wine into the gutter. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It was they who dared ride beyond the Wall, sweeping through the haunted forest and the icy mountain heights west of the Shadow Tower, fighting wildlings and giants and monstrous snow bears. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z You could see it from miles off, a pale blue line across the northern horizon, stretching away to the east and west and vanishing in the far distance, immense and unbroken. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But when she reached the treeline she felt a compulsion to continue into the forest instead of turning west. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun had already slipped behind the palisades, on the west side of the river. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Derek had said early in the evening, while the sun was still on them but low in the west, past the tops of the trees at the edge of the clearing. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z He was a former Columbia oarsman himself, he said, and after watching their recent exploits he had decided to send his son west for college so he too might become a great crewman. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They would strike camp again and head west over the ice, trying to narrow the gap between themselves and the islands. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Seth glanced at his compass to confirm that he was heading west and ran into the woods. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z One evening, just at sunset, he pointed up at an owl circling over the violet- lighted forest to the west. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Eliot’s mother worked in an office fifty miles north, and his father, the last she had heard, lived two thousand miles west. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z "To go north, you must journey south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward you must go back, and to touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z So rather than continuing west to the desalination center at the beach, she decides to crank her wheel right and follow the truck. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The hollows of the waves all were full of darkness while the crests shone yet with a clear ruddy reflection of the west. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z People in Spokane found their picnic hampers and filled them with sandwiches and loaded them in the backseats of their own cars and headed west. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z So he came up with a sketchy plan: he would travel west and south, putting as much distance as possible between himself, North Korea, and border patrol soldiers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z His hindparts shiver with the usual joyful, mindless ache to mount whatever happens near—the storm piling up black towers to the west, some rotting, docile stump, some spraddle-legged ewe. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z So I guess it’s the end of the multi-million- dollar building boom west of Tangerine. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Late one afternoon Matt came from the west with a halter in his hand. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The afternoon came, and the sun, going west towards the mountains, sent out long yellow beams between the cracks and fissures of the clouds. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z "It's the west side, Max. I bet Seventy-Fourth Street continues on the other side of the park. That must be where Auntie Seema's apartment is!" The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z We were scheduled to fire our retro-rockets over the Pacific Ocean, west of Hawaii, whereupon we would begin a gradual descent and finally splash into the Atlantic Ocean east of Florida thirty minutes later. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was made even harder because there were no good roads and the island was crossed by ranges of hills running from east to west. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Not included in the News of the World: a shot of my father’s AKA transport ship leaving Coronado naval base, heading west. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I knew then I had made the circuit of the house, and was standing in the corridor of the west wing. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Lacking walls, it could not be defended, not from the south, or east, or west; but it was only the north that concerned the Night's Watch, and to the north loomed the Wall. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z All the entrances faced west, and each door consisted of a wooden panel hung on ox-hide loops. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “Scout the area. See if you can find a better lodging for us than this heap of rubble. Trail back to the west. I think we passed a big place on the way.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z This proves the storm is moving east to west, because the denser part of the storm was to the east yesterday. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z We’re living in a larger place now, the three of us: the upper two stories of a red brick semidetached house with a sagging wooden square-pillared porch, on a side street west along Bloor. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Similar scenes were played out along the coasts of western Europe and northern Africa, with Galway City’s walls partially swept away and a tidal wave reaching as far west as Barbados. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z When I woke up, freshening winds had moved in from the west. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not the greatest specimen,” Mack says, “but I got her cheap from this bankrupt circus out west. They had her shipped over from Africa. Only had her a month before they went bust.” The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z Miles to the west, a vast body of water lays shimmering like a mirage. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z We exchange news of our parents, who when last I heard from them were in Kenora, and heading west. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I stood there for another half a minute or so, just nodding, waiting for an eastbound bus when she knew I was headed for the west side. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z When I reached the crest of the bridge I saw the Archives for the first time in my life, rising like some great greystone over the trees to the west. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The map is poorly made; there is a great peak visible to the west not shown on it at all, and it is all out of proportion. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “The west side is built into the hill in the old-style way. Sand and dirt for a roof; just about halfway underground. You can feel it, can’t you?” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “The winds from the west will be too strong for us to work on the surface now.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Hamilton started the engine and we motored west, looking for land. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z He trotted her west, across the grassy flat toward the cerros, gently rounded hills of dark lava rock which were covered with a thin crust of topsoil and grass, edged with thickets of scrub oak. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z There was frequent talk now of lighting out west, where colored towns sprouted up on the other side of the Arkansas River. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z But the moment the sun dipped behind the conical summit of Pumori—a 23,507-foot peak immediately west of Base Camp—the temperature plummeted into the teens. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Charlie kept a pair of binoculars by the west window, next to his bed. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z “I’m done with the west wing. How’s it going?” he asked, his breath uneven. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The wind eddied, bearing smoke from the west. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Pennsy’s length eclipsed that of her sisters, the Union Pacific in the west, the Topeka and Santa Fe in the middle of America. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z “The Empire State Building is located at latitude 40 degrees, 44 minutes, 53.977 seconds north; longitude 73 degrees, 59 minutes, 10.812 seconds west. Thank you.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z No waves would come to ruffle this dream water, and no bulk of cloud, wind-driven from the west, obscure the clarity of this pale sky. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z We ate for a while without talking, and I thought of a picture post-card I had bought once at a village shop, when on holiday as a child in the west country. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He came from the west, from the Cree lands. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Smith was pleased. he rumors followed them west. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Their purpose was to hold this course west of the Mountains for many miles and days. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Then one day I took the bus west to Philadelphia. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Part of him wanted to head west to the ocean. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z In fast motion, a ring of fire spreads out from the Pacific Ocean east toward the United States, and west toward Japan. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z One afternoon in April 2016, the two of us took a helicopter from the American ambassador’s residence in London to Windsor Castle in the countryside west of the city. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z When we get to the spot by the west end, I notice the terraces. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he throttled up, turned tight, and motored west, adjusting to the north less than five degrees in the hope of stumbling across a buoy marker. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “They went straight west from there right on through town and I don’t know where they went from there,” the witness recalled. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z On May 19, having traveled no farther west than the Toklat River— less than fifteen miles beyond the bus—he turned around. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Further west, the same burning occurred, but on even grander scale. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z By June he would be ready to accept a call to one of the small parishes springing up to the south and west of Wethersfield. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z It had been decided to deflect the upline a few kilometres to the west. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered what they had been doing in the west wing. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He looked over, but they were pointing off to the west. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z Those people could not live without freedom and so they packed up and moved west. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Before them, as they turned west, gentle slopes ran down into dim hazes far below. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z It was as sure as the sun setting in the west. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The sun was behind the roofs of the houses and the sky in the west was purple and pink. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Many of the newer immigrants from eastern European countries like Poland and Lithuania were relegated to the ramshackle houses just west of the Union Stock Yard in the neighborhood aptly called Back of the Yards. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He was on liaison duties in the French sector and initiated a last-minute evacuation of a small town west of Verdun before it was shelled. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z We’ll sail south to the Canaries, then west to the West Indies, and then north to Virginia. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Already the ship had drifted 1,000 miles north and west with the pack ice. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Because the mountains impeded north-south communication, it was much easier to coordinate the flow of goods and services east to west. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Picture the millennial plane flying west, from the lowlands of the Beni to the heights of the Andes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z One day on course due west, off central Krete, the ship caught a fresh norther, and we ran southward before the wind while Zeus piled ruin ahead. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They were effective in stopping the fire’s spread west, but the wind pushed it north and east relentlessly. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z “If you head due west, you will run into a swamp. It’s not pleasant, but he’s not likely to pursue you there. Hide for a day or two, then head south.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind, however, was gusting erratically out of the west, quartering across the racecourse at roughly a forty-five-degree angle, pushing in bursts and fits at the starboard side of the shell. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Tracy had grown up on a farm west of Lincoln in a religious family. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z The entire west wall was a massive floor-to-ceiling window offering a breathtaking view of the vast cityscape outside. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Far to the west of Saratov and Stalingrad, across the English Channel, British women—and a few from other Allied nations as well—were also flying planes to support the war effort. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z They decide to walk to the restaurant, thirty blocks north of their apartment, four blocks west. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z And embassies came from many lands and peoples, from the East and the South, and from the borders of Mirkwood, and from Dunland in the west. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “I’ve been with him on that road. He’s as apt to turn west here as to keep heading south.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I make it into the open air and walk west, past the murderous mannequins in the windows, past the bivalvular City Hall. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A darkness loured all day in the west even under the rain-clouds. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z On horseback, they were driving their sheep home from summer pasture fifty miles west, far on the other side of the Rio Grande gorge. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Octavian would govern the west, including the parts of Gaul that had been under Mark Antony’s control. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z "Now glance at the wall. Farther west, above the stables. The guardsman leaning on the ramparts?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “Then we left it going southwest. The hill is to the west, the meadow is east.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The wind was blowing west now, toward the Gulf of Mexico. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A squadron of flying machines, which had been getting the better of a ragged battle with Lord Asriel’s gyropters, wheeled in the sky and made off to the west. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z We travel west, to California, and the promise of a new life. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “West is where the spirits of the dead walk. If the whites keep chasing us west, we’ll end up in the land of the spirits.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Their destined home was on the west coast, somewhat to the north, but they must by no means take the shortest way and go up between Sicily and Italy. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z If the ice took them toward the east, they would reach open water with no near landfalls; if it took them west, their chances were better. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Iapetus, Bob, was the lord of the west. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “I think Z has a brother or two, but they live out west somewhere. I’ve never met them anyway. And he did have a wife once, but not for long.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z There were streams and creeks everywhere, instead of the irrigation ditches you saw out west, and the air felt different. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “They lie to the west of here. How far, I do not know.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z It allowed settlers to live in “Indian Territory” west of the Appalachian and Allegheny Mountains. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Tugs pushed the bow of the Manhattan until she pointed down the river, and the ship began to power majestically down the west side of Manhattan. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I twirled around the room, ready for a ball, curtsying to the east corner, and then the west. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘First, be wary! Still many men in camp beyond Dîn, an hour’s walk yonder,’ he waved his arm west towards the black beacon. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Finally, as the sun approached the line of trees in the west, she couldn’t think of any more excuses. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Thirty-four years later and thousands of miles west, Abdulrahman Zeitoun was in bed on a Friday morning, slowly leaving the moonless Jableh night, a tattered memory of it caught in a morning dream. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z On a curving road I might have been traveling east or south or west instead of the north I wanted. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z To the west they could see light through the trees, as if the world came there to a sudden end, at a brink looking out only on to sky. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z A wooden door with odd characters carved into its surface was set into the west wall. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z We drive west of the city into Brookline, to an area where the streets widen and the trees thicken and the houses grow bigger and more spaced apart. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The Maple Grove projects are a fifteen-minute walk away on the west side, or as Grandma calls it, “that ol’ rough side.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z There was a small postern-door that opened in an angle of the burg-wall on the west, where the cliff stretched out to meet it. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z One would not specify the position of the moon in terms of miles north and miles west of Piccadilly Circus and feet above sea level. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She stared up at the sky for a long time; a shooting star arched from west to east, scattering light behind it like dust on a trail. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The setting sun gilded the terraces on the east bank but cast the west bank into dark blue shadow. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Cora caught on that they were heading west instead of south. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The wind was swirling from the west, driving still more snow across the frozen surface of the lakes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Then Paul pointed out to me, “That young fellow just coming with the last bicycle is the other pilot, the one who got stuck in the mud west of here. You probably know each other?” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Continuous bombing of Pas de Calais and the west coast of France. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z To the west, the sky was crimson with sunset. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He came to a large traffic circle where the road going north crossed the Oxford ring road going east and west. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Merry and Pippin climbed up the path that came in from the west, and looked through the opening in the great hedge. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Carl had named his boat after his wife, and, in ’48, built a big frame house just west of Amity Harbor, including an apartment for his mother, Etta. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The door to the west wing was closed. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “This is like the tenth time you asked me, Fab. Ain’t no way in hell I’m going to, one, the Three Bees’ house, and two, the west side.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Koffi looked like she wanted to argue, but thought better of it as they started to run west. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z At the conclusion of his preparations in Fairbanks, McCandless loaded up his pack and started hiking west from the university. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a large window against the south wall, and an opening through the west wall led to the living room. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Noon finds them picking their way through deadlocked traffic on a new motorway near Vaucresson, a full ten miles west of their apartment, as far from home as Marie-Laure has ever been. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Tomorrow we turn east, northeast. For a bit, anyway. There might be more people up that way. Seems like the forest fires are in the west.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Behind, on higher ground, stood a splendid theater, a compulsory feature in any Greek city, and to its west, the Emporion, a complex of docks and customshouses where every ship was inspected. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z They went north around the vast basin of bones, and then west. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They struck off north and west along a crooked game trail. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Below Wall on the west is the forest; to the south is a treacherously placid lake served by the streams that drop from the hills behind Wall to the north. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Less than half a mile to the west, they came upon a spinney adjoining the southern edge of Caesar’s Belt. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mad she may be,” Ser Kevan said, “but with so much smoke drifting west, surely there must be some fire burning in the east.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Tayo used to stand in the big sandstone cave and hold the siphon hose under the water in the shallow pool where the spring water splashed down from the west wall of the cave. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Frightful turned abruptly west and in minutes was over the mountain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z This bridge has more traffic because it links downtown with the west side of Bartlett, where the high school is and the local college is and all these neighborhoods are, growing up in between. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He drove west on the Milagro-Garcia spur, a dirt road partially shaded by some cottonwoods and Russian olives growing alongside Indian Creek. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Egypt lay only 800 miles west of Sumer, with which Egypt had trade contacts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He asserted that Greenland is drifting west by about a mile a year, which is clearly nonsense. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z One set consists of plants whose ancestors are widely distributed from west to east across the Sahel zone and were probably domesticated there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the west there were streaks of cold yellow and rose. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The latter says that it’s bound to be the west’s turn by now. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z I don’t care what she wants.We’re almost to the west stairs now and I’m not even sure how we got here. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom, and the road has always led west. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We spent two days on the Amtrak train, heading west through hills, over rivers, past amber waves of grain. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z "In the west, they call that a traitor's moon. Try not to get too drunk tonight, and see that your axe is sharp." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I could go to her room in the west wing, stand by the window even as I had done this morning, and I should not be afraid. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z When Columbus set sail, he apparently assumed the earth was round, which was why he was convinced that he could get to India by going west. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z While Hazel gazed, the wind slowly veered round into the west, as Cowslip had said it would, and brought the rain driving into the mouth of the hole. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z All were sent to Fort Jefferson in the Dry Tortugas, a baking-hot group of islands about eighty miles west of the Florida Keys. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The sea was blue and green and the sun blazing down from an empty blue sky when the Iron Fleet took its second prize, in the waters north and west of Astapor. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Kids traveled from all over the city, north, east, and west, leaving behind their neighborhood skirmishes for a school they hoped might be a little safer, a little saner than the one closer to home. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I said goodbye to everyone and headed west. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z As we shall see, his work continued to have repercussions down to the eve of the Renaissance, as Columbus prepared to sail west to China. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z Without the engine, houses to the west were threatened. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to go to the rooftree of Maine to start my trip before turning west. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I always found in myself a dread of west and a love of east. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In particular, federal authority was questioned and tested west of the mountains from Canada to Spanish Florida. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z “To go north, you must journey south. To reach the west, you must go east. To go forward, you must go back. To touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Not only would they have to convince her to come with them, but they’d have to travel miles west to get her to the Kusonga Plains in time for the Bonding, all while avoiding detection. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “You heard the prophecy. Five shall go west to the goddess in chains. We can get five hunters and go.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z And when Murano appeared out of the darkness they knew they had gone too far west. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Half a mile west rose the fortifications of Camp Jupiter. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The sky was pale, with a few salmon clouds of evening streaking to the west. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The wind came up from the west, smelling cool like wet clay, Then he could see the rain. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z In the morning, after gassing up, I headed straight west along the Rainy River, which separates Minnesota from Canada, and which for me separated one life from another. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The sky to the west was mostly clear, except for a few wispy clouds and the long foamy contrail from a big military jet. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z When the road swung away from the stream course heading back toward the north-south highway, the ruins tailed away to the west. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Closer you get to the coasts,” Clarence whispered, pointing east, west, and then north, “the more water’s left that can be drunk. The middle grounds?” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z They rode together, Johnston following, across a road crossing from east to west. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing else in town, not even the resurgence of the oil industry in another frenzied boom, could give the west side the same sort of psychological lift as a win over Permian. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Just upstream from where Davis Creek flows into Lake Powell, a natural ramp zigzags down from the canyon's west rim. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She looked to the west and thought she heard her father call, “This way. This way.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z They didn’t stay in the waterfront shed for long, but where they went next was only marginally better, an old house on Phinney Ridge, west of Green Lake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z If I’d been the weatherman that morning, I would have said an area of low pressure was moving in from the west, with closely packed isobars and a chance of thunder. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Ged lifted his face and gazed at that remote bright crescent in the west. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z He scrambled to the west side of the summit. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The sun was low in the west now. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m pretty sure all the iron mines are off to the west,” Denna mused. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Having forgotten Hambro for the moment I walked east instead of west. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a plane making its way west, and I mentally put myself on it. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z So the river had widened into a lake, but he had moved along the west bank. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z And so following her directions, I drove through Pawhuska and headed west across the prairie, through the tall grasses, until I saw what she’d vividly described to me: scores of metallic towers invading the sky. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I watch a plane fly west above me—just a small sparkle in the sky. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z They set up camps all along the west coast of Greece to create a supply chain heading south. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Fry’s rooms were in the west wing of the building, not very far from where the senators and representatives met. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z They rounded up the Indians in camps, the women and children and whatever they could carry on their backs, and marched them west of the Mississippi. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I had been keeping a list of the east- west no sayers and put Safeway at the very top of it. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked at the old man, but he was staring at the lights down below, following the headlights from the west until they were taillights disappearing in the east. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The nearest well was south and west of the Harridan, so they set off in that direction, the bells on their collars ringing merrily with every step. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “I remember the way. I go north to go south, east to go west, back to go forward. And to touch the light I have to pass beneath the shadow.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I closed the door behind me, walked down the front steps, and turned west. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The rum was then taken by ship to the west coast of Africa, where, as part of the infamous triangle trade, it was traded for slaves. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z Grandpa Nyles pointed to groves of trees below them, along the west side of the river. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z It’s another school on the west end of the reservation, filled with poor Indians and poorer white kids. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The rain was still falling, but the darkness had parted in the west, and there was a pink and golden billow of foamy clouds above the sea. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Across town on the west side the mood was different. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Three more on the west side, guarding Nevada. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Did the mayor bring all this building material west on the train? Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z All of the Ojibwa would be safe on their own land farther west, Albert was saying. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z And if you began this story with the day they set sail for the wild blue west, you’d be inclined to agree. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Louis Lippo said, “Mr. Trask is from New England. He plans to settle here. He’s been west before though—in the army, fighting Indians.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Stuckey drove to the University of Alaska campus, on the west end of Fairbanks, and dropped McCandless off at 5:30 P.M. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The Randalls bought out the Spencer spread to the north, once that family decided to try their luck out west. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z At dusk I watched, transfixed, as the lights of Petersburg blinked on in the west. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When he came out of Hang Wood, he would go across the scrub, and then west, into open farmland, and over the first of the downs. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z “You look good. You got on your Jordans, some nice tight jeans. If anybody look at you funny, you tell ’em you reppin’ the west side.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z We got to Zeus’s Fist, a huge pile of boulders in the middle of the west woods. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Adding to his problems, the disaster had not touched the Wampanoag’s longtime enemies, the Narragansett alliance to the west. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Look at what it would do to real estate values on the west side.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z There were only a few homes on the west side of the canyon. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The west branch of the Delaware, the town of Delhi, and the one mountain among thousands were where she belonged. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Their parents crawled out of tin-and-tar-paper shacks and into the stench of sewage and rotting seaweed from the mudflats to the west. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Penikese was a small island a little distance to the west of the other Elizabeths. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z He drew back the yellow curtains, and the hobbits saw that these had covered the windows, at either end of the room, one looking east and the other looking west. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z We drive through the nearly empty Sunday streets, following the streetcar tracks west. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A light wind was blowing to the west, carrying the muck fire away from us, toward the Gulf. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad talked my mom into naming her after one of his favorite writers, some weird old bird who’s buried out west in the middle of a desert. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z A host of the enemy was encamped upon it, three miles west of Amon Dîn, and some strength of men was already thrusting along the road and was no more than three leagues away. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “Down at the west end of the river. Near where it goes into that great hole in the Pipeworks wall.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The Santa Lucias stood up against the sky to the west and kept the valley from the open sea, and they were dark and brooding—unfriendly and dangerous. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He pointed to a high point west of and above the river. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z A moment later, several more squadrons dropped in from orbit to the north and west. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z The light west wind carried a fresh smell of rabbits. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She was in the house still as Mrs. Danvers had said, she was in that room in the west wing, she was in the library, in the morning-room, in the gallery above the hall. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z But she turned and saw that the sun was in the west, where it should be, sinking to join the earth. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z “Such long faces! Cheer up, friends. Many a scoundrel has made their fortune out west. Of course, that is all assuming you survive.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z It meant reprieve for the west, for House Lannister, and yet . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Hitler now understood with absolute clarity the feeble resolve of the powers to his west. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He brings his finger to a long, Y-shaped lake west of us. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Tomorrow we shall try the ascent farther west. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z We’ve gone west to the supermarket, south to the mall, north to the schools, but never east to the town. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z People who lived there liked to say the town was 150 miles west of Phoenix, 250 miles east of Los Angeles, and smack dab in the middle of nowhere. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It took a lot longer that way, so we didn’t get to the west part of Buxton till sometime ’round noon. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z “I like it. Sail west, not east. Leave the little queen to her olives and seat Prince Aegon upon the Iron Throne. The boy has stones, give him that.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He just needed to backtrack along the trail and then head west. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z And a half mile to the south and west of the Islander Carl Heine stood in his cabin door and listened uncertainly to the same whistle blasts now penetrating through the fog. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “Any time, when you have nothing to do, you have only to ask me, and I will show the rooms in the west wing,” she persisted, making me vaguely uncomfortable, I knew not why. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z As she goes farther west into America, she draws attention. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z In Washington’s number seven seat, a realization flickered through Joe’s awareness—the boat was drawing abreast of his father’s house on the west side of the lake. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I head north and then west and then south and then east, the car pushing ninety. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z But in the west I could see the summer sun was already low, hovering in its own blinding light before it wedded night. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z At the far west end, a man paced, cleaning his glasses on the hem of his shirt, again and again. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z As the aeronautical laboratory expanded west to meet the demands of the war, its twin, Langley Field, sought to grow in order to accommodate the Army Air Corps’ booming operation. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He checked the compass and saw that he was sailing just south of west—close to 250 degrees—and he mentally noted the direction. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Shortly after that, he traveled west to the State of North Dakota, and he settled there and raised a family. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z It will be warmer than a tree, too, because it provides some shelter from the wind that has begun to blow steadily in from the west. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z A west wind off the sea kept the temperature in the thirties, even here at three or four thousand feet of altitude. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The sky was already turning rosy as we raced toward the west side of the islands, where we’d have the best view. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z If he explores east and west he is sure to explore south, too. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The vague gray light was in the west. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “Perhaps you would like me to show you all over the west wing?” she said. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The date thus seemed to imply that the Maya had originated well to the west of what was thought of as their traditional homeland, and much earlier than had been thought. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Royal Brougham figured if it could somehow be shifted west, it might land squarely in Seattle and bring the city a lot of much-needed respect. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Ursa Major is in the north,” she said, “which means that must be west.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The wind was blowing from the west, swirling and gusting, clutching at ropes and cloaks like a mischievous child. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Many sit with their backs against the sacks at the front of the car: they look like scarecrows shipping west to be staked in some terrible garden. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z So tomorrow, with only twenty- seven dollars left of the money raised in Kansas City, they were heading west again, to Texas, to Nevada—“nowhere definite.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He takes us west at an amazing speed. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Jonathan scanned the sky, noticing clouds building to the west. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z It made sense to go there, because Mount Sinai was all the way west on Fifth Avenue. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z People said they climbed the trails to the mountaintops to look west and southwest and to call the clouds and thunder. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Their route swung to the west as they rose out of the valley, still between the ancient walls. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I walk west from Simpsons, still looking for something to eat. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Their hides reflected the color of the sunset like clouds on the west horizon. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z With the Rock, he could hold Lannisport and the golden lands of the west. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But he was put on an orphan train and sent west. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z By three o’clock the sun had swung down over the west goalposts of the high school football field. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It was heading almost directly toward New Orleans, with the brunt of it expected to strike about sixteen miles west of the city. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Alexandria When Alexander laid out the grid for the port city of Alexandria, the site he chose was a quiet coastal village west of the Nile Delta. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z A black shadow seemed to pass like an arm above him; it missed Amon Hen and groped out west, and faded. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A small, sporadic stream of automobiles with faded paint and patched tires bounced along the rutted roads that paralleled the railroad tracks, all heading the same direction—west. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The next day he watched the clouds gather on the west horizon; by the next morning the sky was full of low dark rain clouds. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “Traveling by instinct, they would simply go west by the most direct route—straight across country, over the Ironmouth Range.” The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z TTiey laid the wood east to west, from sunrise to sunset. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z If you kept going south, on down past Queenstown, the river would hook around in the west, then the north and empty into the Chesapeake Bay, but mostly we crabbed the river. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z “The entrance to the Underworld is always in the west. It moves from age to age, just like Olympus. Right now, of course, it’s in America.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The sun was low in the west, painting the fields and houses all a glowing red. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In elementary school, we used those same chamber of commerce maps to learn about north, south, east, and west. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z From Schulpforta they ride a train through Leipzig and disembark at a switching station west of Lodz. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Chamberlain saw through a break in the trees, blue hills very far away, hazy ridges miles to the west, not ridges, mountains; he was on high ground. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they, too, glided away, some going south, others north, east, and west. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z We met Auma at a downtown train station, and the three of us boarded a passenger train with slatted windows to head west out of the city and toward the Obama family’s ancestral home. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z It looks like a cross between a henhouse and a covered wagon from the old west. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z They said the words together, as the last light faded in the west and grey day became black night. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z For all the wear, the complaints from deep in the wood at every step, the cabins had the always-quality of the hills to the west, of the creek that bisected the property. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Prince Aegon,” said Tristan Rivers, “we are your men. Is this your wish, that we sail west instead of east?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The invaders had swept west to Buffalo, Chicago, and St. Louis. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z In the west, I noticed dark clouds piling up across the horizon, like a distant mountain range. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z By checking the distances on the map, I can tell it’s just ten miles west of us—much closer than going back to Charity. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Gabe turned toward me and spoke in the rasping voice of the Oracle: You shall go west, and face the god who has turned. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z He sailed on between the two, and as the afternoon darkened with storm-clouds coming up from the north he came to shore, on the southern coast of the west isle. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Before moving west to Seattle, he had been a first-rate sculler at the prestigious Pennsylvania Athletic Club in Philadelphia. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z At the town of Knysna, more than a hundred miles west of Port Elizabeth, I stopped to survey the surroundings. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Loki, in his own form, traveled to the west of Valhalla. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z While American blacks of African descent originated mainly from Africa’s west coastal zone, similar peoples traditionally occupied East Africa as well, north to the Sudan and south to the southeast coast of South Africa itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Three hours later Gallien turned his truck west off the highway and drove as far as he could down an unplowed side road. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew we were exactly one hundred thirteen nautical miles west by northwest of our destination. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Well after midnight, west of Cancale, they run out of fuel. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The village of Kinvara isn’t named, but I rub the place where it belongs, right under Galway on the jagged line of the west coast. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z McCandless spent the next six weeks on the move across the Southwest, traveling as far east as Houston and as far west as the Pacific coast. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z If you dropped an object from a tall tower, it would fall towards the west. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They tell him he has not been traveling south but west and is headed for the center of the Baja Peninsula. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A large cofferdam, made of sheets of steel, was being built on the west side of the river to divert the water away from the base of the cliffs there. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z She points west and says, "I live about four blocks that way. How about you?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “By night, or under cover of mist,” said Adam, “a whole army could creep over hill and through forest without being seen. ’Tis from the north and west that we look for trouble. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z But soon they began to fall down into the darkness, and as the sun turned west a grey shadow crept over their faces. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Julia pointed to a light on the west side of the canyon. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z He rode the mare west again, in the direction the mountain lion had come from. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Back on the quad, Alex raced across the cliff tops with the sun already sinking in the west. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z I remember the fire trucks that came whizzing around the corner shortly thereafter, and the charred remains of the police building's west wing. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z When they reached the White House, the women divided into two groups of six and headed toward the east and west entrances. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Mountains and storm clouds rose to the west. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Only fifty miles from the limousines and exclusive tennis clubs and lush green fairways of Palm Springs, the west shore of the Salton Sea had once been the site of intense real estate speculation. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The studio is in an old house with peeling paint over on the west side. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z One foot pointed east and one pointed west. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z It shifted farther west with Rome’s conquest of Greece in the second century B.C., and after the fall of the Roman Empire it eventually moved again, to western and northern Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z So we ran west toward parts of Germany not yet occupied. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The days were already beginning to grow short, and at 5:30 p.m. the sun sank behind Montlake Bridge just to the west of the shell house. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z We agreed to try the glacier between the Volcanoes, though by going west to it we lose at least two days’ mileage towards our goal, one in going west and one in regaining the distance. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “He lives west of here in a cave. He wears a bearskin coat, has long hair—all matted and full of burrs—and according to him he fishes for a living.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Driving west you were driving against the sun. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z When, thirty minutes later, he heard the noise of distant helicopters coming from the west, he struck out away from the timber trail and into the woods. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “Listen to this: ‘On the west wall will be situated a main gate so that creatures may come and go, obtaining entrance to or exit from the Abbey of Redwall. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z “I saw birds...west of here...circling. They went away, and I couldn’t find the place. I saw them.” Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z I point in the direction of the west. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I got a raise, to four bucks an hour, and at the end of the summer moved out of the job-site trailer to a cheap studio apart-ment west of the downtown mall. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He looks off at the west cotton field where the sun is dipping into the dirt. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z A large bird started into the air as if it had been thrown, then stopped, spread its wings, and glided in a great arc to the west. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes it was a useless mile to the west or east. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z “She ... she said I would go west and face a god who had turned. I would retrieve what was stolen and see it safely returned.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z After driving west in snow flurries for about an hour, we finally arrive. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The Chinese immigrants building the railroads connecting east to west. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z They finally came to a point of land located just where the canal known as the Montlake Cut—simply the Cut, in local parlance—entered Union Bay on the west side of Lake Washington. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He seemed to argue, contrary to common sense and the visual evidence provided by all maps, that the Potomac was actually farther west than the Susquehanna. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In the sixties and seventies and eighties, the influx of Hispanics rapidly increased and many began living not only on the Southside but the west side as well. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z But it wasn’t peacetime, it was now, late November 1943, with the first snow on the Cheviot Hills in the west. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z What was behind those scary green mountains to the west? The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Lightning flickered over the Midnight Mountains to the east; stars twinkled over the gorge in the west. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z East, west, north, south, everywhere he looked, the clouds rose up like black mountains, their tumbled slopes and collossal cliffs alive with blue and purple lightning. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I feel mighty bad about getting her shipped out west with me and Jackson. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z For example, as a location for his Columbiad he picked, of all places on earth, Tampa, Florida—just a few miles west of Cape Canaveral, the launching pad for our Columbia. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I feel the eyes of everyone in this corridor on me and still I bow to the west. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z As the sun ran for the west, rowdy songs started up in the taverns and groggeries. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z They lived on Leavenworth, just a few blocks west of my mother’s apartment. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The eastern sky was peach colored, but a handful of lazy stars still blinked in the west. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He fell silent, gazing north and west into the gathering night for a long while. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He thought he saw a glint of water far to the west. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The coast guard banned fishing on the west side of the island and bore down on gill-netters in the middle of the night who had set nets near restricted areas. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Soon the sun sinks into the wild sky of the west, and I stand in the rapidly cooling air. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “That will make it difficult. She was coming north, you said. Was the lake to her east or to her west?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He had heard of another refugee camp, far to the south and west, where he hoped things would be better. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z I slip it into the backpack and stare at the runners' path between me and the west side of Manhattan. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Before they ate, Faramir and all his men turned and faced west in a moment of silence. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I told him I was studying hard because I wanted to become either a veterinarian or a geologist specializing in the Miocene period, when the mountains out west were formed. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z When she asked him to lead them to her uncle, he said, "The Blackfish is gone west with the king, my lady. Martyn Rivers commands the outriders in his stead." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z A stream was flowing through the brown grass, winding west. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Just west of Chicago’s Black Belt sat the white immigrant communities known as Packingtown. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z We park in front of a gigantic warehouse just west of downtown. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The village of Bree had some hundred stone houses of the Big Folk, mostly above the Road, nestling on the hillside with windows looking west. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z On the highest rampart of the fortress was a tower of adamant: just one flight of steps up to a set of rooms whose windows looked out north, south, east, and west. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z As bad luck would have it, my bedroom window looked west to the haunted woods. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z We could have been an Okie family heading west, while Papa in his wide-brim hat and his turtleneck sweater drove like a wild man, as if he couldn't wait to get back to civilization. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The host was broadcasting from Washington, D.C., and I was seated in a remote studio on the far west side of Manhattan. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z We wait as the massive main gates of the west entrance are opened for us, and then pass into the city, the carriage letting us off at a central stop. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z At the bottom of the stairs, they came out into the main tunnel and walked down the path to the west until they came to the marked rock. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Twilight was coming on apace and a star or two was already out, but the remains of the sunset could still be seen in the west. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z They had sailed too far and lost too much for Victarion to turn west without his prize. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In the mirror I see him gazing out at the shops and lots of the boulevard, the rows of bulb and neon stretching west before us like a luminous trail to the island. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He pointed to the west of the tracks. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z After leaving Virginia, Chris drove south and then west across the flat Texas plains, through the heat of New Mexico and Arizona, and arrived at the Pacific coast. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Carl lit his pipe and scratched behind his ear, and Zenhichi pointed with his hat to the west, made a sweep, put his hat on his head. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The train trundled west as darkness fell, police lights still pulsing against the St. Louis skyline behind us. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Far to the west in a haze lay the meres and eyots through which it wound its way to the Greyflood: there countless swans housed in a land of reeds. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He might just shrug and say, Carry on, then they would saddle up and form into a column and move out toward the villages west of Than Khe. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The moon was overhead by now, and as she walked she watched it slowly descend toward the west. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z In those days no other Men had settled dwellings so far west, or within a hundred leagues of the Shire. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z And the strange new sun rising in the west. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun dropped low over the west fields. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z New York is very simple: the avenues run north to south, the streets run west to east. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z If the government wants to hide somebody, there’s probably no place more isolated than my reservation, which is located approximately one million miles north of Important and two billion miles west of Happy. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z I turned and ran through the woods toward the west ridge. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “You distinctly said the west, because then I said, ‘Next to the slag heap?’ and you said, ‘Yeah,’” I say. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Below them, to the west, they could see the nine Little Baldy Bear Lakes, tiny and almost unbelievably beautiful, each lake pocked with hundreds of silver circles from the feeding fish. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Why didn’t Chinese ships cross the Pacific to colonize the Americas’ west coast? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He spots the enemy approaching from the west. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z There’s a city—Kent—circled in the west of the state, not too far from the Mexico border. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z It had been two years since we left our home on the west coast of Ireland. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z He hadn’t come on vacation, as he was leaving for his freshman year at California University of Pennsylvania, which was four hours west of Hatfield. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z It was said that the Tartars had invaded Muscovy, and were surging north to St. Petersburg, from where they would be able to dominate the Baltic Sea and eventually overcome the entire west erf Europe. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Large grassy flats west of the village were filled with nearly fifteen thousand horses. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z On the far bank, to the east and west, the Guards were well dug in along their section. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Another group of six protesters, including Lucy Burns, was arrested at the west gate for obstructing traffic. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z We’d found the car abandoned along a side road a few miles west of East River, and picked it only because it still had a quarter tank of gas. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z We had traveled down to 130th Street and had started to cut over west across Harlem. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Instead of buying the watch, Agnes bought an extra ticket west so her mother could see her marry. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The storm moved off farther west, along with any hope of rain. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z In the sky the jet streams crisscross from east to west and west to east like ICBMs. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Towards the west, dark clouds shroud the mountains as far as Constanza and on through the whole cordillera to the far reaches of Haiti. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The last sliver of sun vanished behind the high walls of Pentos to the west just then. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Timothy said he saw an arc of very black clouds to the west They looked as though they were beginning to join the higher clouds. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z They told Rasheed later that if the winds had blown east instead of west, his shop, which was at the corner of the block, might have been spared. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “So where do we go? The Oracle just said to go west.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “Hundreds” of residents of Riverside Drive, on the west side of Manhattan, believed themselves to be in the path of the imaginary Martian tripods. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Jo-jo had brought it with her from the west, where revolution was sparking along the ragged coast. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z "Take Fifteen Steps to Better Writing to the west then turn around and dig," I whispered. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Now he is camping in that spot, at the crossroads, and exploring east and west on Number 9, the Dean Town Road. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z On and on, now east, now west, wound the poor thread that once had been our drive. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z But all save Legolas said that they must now take their leave and depart either south or west. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z To the east and west were more mountains, great jagged peaks thrusting sharply upward, their scarps piled high with snow and raked by the wind into bladelike edges as sharp as scimitars. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z North and west of Tiwanaku, in what is now southern Peru, was the rival state of Wari, which then ran for almost a thousand miles along the spine of the Andes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He too had heard them planning new adventures together, and he knew that come spring when his yearning to move west filled him that there would be no one to go with him. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun was beginning to set in the west. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The soldiers bordered the town along the west and the north in two long fire-speckled fences—a lovely sight in the gathering dusk. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Kinshasa was a sprawling city of ten million, and if we headed west we’d be sure to hit some part of it. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But soon lightning began flickering again off to the west while mist drifted from the close eastern mountain canyons toward the road. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z On the west side of the dam, a black van swerved to a stop in the middle of the road, nearly plowing into some old people. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z They shouldered their packs and took up their sticks, and walked round the corner to the west side of Bag End. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The autopilot had just landed the ship in the field to the west of the white house. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In the autumn towering brown dust storms sometimes blew in from the rolling wheat country to the west. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The Wall stretched east and west as far as the eye could see, so huge that it shrunk the timbered keeps and stone towers of the castle to insignificance. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “If only I’d been standing one yard farther west, it would have been perfect.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Bright, silent sheet-lightning still flashed occasionally across the gorge in the west. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The strike against wage cuts swept west along the rails through Chicago, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, to San Francisco—100,000 workers halting commerce for forty-five days. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z I got the west bedroom that faced out over the front yard. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z We drove to the bridge that divided the east bank of the Jordan River from its west bank, where hills and valleys curved like the laps of a thousand mothers. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z His chief temple in Rome ran east and west, where the day begins and ends, and had two doors, between which stood his statue with two faces, one young and one old. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “In the west, they have an expression for that,” I said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Or even west, to the mountains, and then south over the high passes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Crazy Horse and Little Hawk stayed to the west side of the battle ridge. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z But west would lead them only into more labour and delay, back towards the heart of the hills; east would take them to the outer precipice. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The sun was already beginning to set beyond new black clouds which were rising in the west, and men came out into the open to watch the last sunlight flame across the fields. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was getting ready to let five of them west acres go to weeds, you know, they’re so choresome to keep the thistle out of.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I took thirty-nine steps to the west because I liked the movie The Thirty-nine Steps. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The trainer did his best to keep him fit on the long journey west. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z As the spring advanced they tracked it eastward, and the first frost drove them west and south. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Where am I to follow you? “Along the road that leads west,” Cerdic said. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Here she is, following the rules for years, working toward nothing more than being some lady’s Attendant, and the powers that be decide she’s too pretty for such drudgery and ship her out west. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Fringed by mountains, the basin was about a hundred miles long from north to south and perhaps half that size from east to west. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “He goes down and stares off west over the ocean.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z He waved his hand vaguely in the air before him; but he was in fact now facing southwards, as he came back to Shelob’s tunnel, not west. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z And that was how he found the Indian girl who brought him to her people and they became one rich, happy family and moved west together. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z The lodge was on the west side of the village. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z I had already done a little hiking to the west around Rangeley and Flagstaff Lakes, in the week before Katz came, as a kind of reconnoiter, so I felt as if I knew the terrain. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z He had only one close friend—Bob Jones, the son of Taylor Jones, whose ranch was a mile west of the Clutter home. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s our ride west. Do you have any idea how fast this boar can travel?” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Sabeen picks a new pin and punches it into New York, then stretches the dangling thread far west to Arizona. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z It was close to eleven-thirty, if his watch was right, the last of the flood still carrying him east, and he decided to motor west again in order to fish the tide turn. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Here is the boundary between east and west. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Momma was buried in the back, her feet to the east, her head to the west. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The plan was to shoot west until they hit a string of islands a trapper had shown him, and then bow northeast until the swamp dried up. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z They had come to Virginia in the eighteenth century and then moved west into the Appalachians in search of land. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “Besides, I haven’t done anything worth bragging about. We barely got out of New York and were stuck here with no money and no way west.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z He looked off to the east and west, at the Wall stretching before him, a vast white road with no beginning and no end and a dark abyss on either side. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z About half a mile to the west, where the horns were blowing, a Roman fort stood on a hill. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Julia and I could look up at the canyon rims on either side of us and imagine the towering monolithic face of a one-hundred-fifty-foot-tall death trap that stretched across the sky from west to east. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Serber and his wife packed up their car, drove west, and moved into the apartment above Oppenheimer’s garage. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z A few tiny lights blinked from poles to the west and the south. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Behind me, black crows rise from the trees, flying west against a fading sky, calling to one another. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z As bad as the west coast sounded, it was still his home territory. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z One afternoon, somewhere west of the Batangan Peninsula, we came across an abandoned pagoda. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The storm that people were talking about was still far down in Florida, moving slowly west. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z A deep pinkish red spilled out on the river, which moved without sound, and in the morning we would cross the river and march west into the mountains. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun was setting, the sky to the west was streaked with red and orange. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z “I don’t regret doin’ what we did,” Cat said, “but I regret takin’ my crew so far west in the first place. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It is said that there are still havens of the High Elves, but they are far north and west, beyond the land of the Halflings. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z She passed up the stairs swiftly and silently and disappeared through the door leading to the west wing. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z When we finally found a road heading west, we took it. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z You keep going west until you run out. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z From east to west, there was no faster way to traverse the long oval of the city than by underground boat. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Then he resumed a life of constant motion, riding his thumb north and west through Red Bluff, Weaverville, and Willow Creek. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m watching die sun set in the west. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z There were maples and oaks to the west, and a hemlock forest to the right that pulled me right across the sweet grasses, into it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “I suppose we would head west again, back where we come from. Miss Peregrine could make another loop for us. One where we’d never be found.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z I’d positioned myself in the front west corner, where I had a view of the parking lot. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z You needed a message brought to your brother on the west side of the city after phone service was cut? The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He has taken Orcs into his service, and Wolf-riders, and evil Men, and he has closed the Gap against us, so that we are likely to be beset both east and west. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z A few days before, on October 5, he and Adolf Hitler had stepped out of a black, armored Mercedes-Benz in the countryside west of Berlin. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They knew that they would have to head west over the ice again if their position didn’t improve. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z This time I went off toward the west, along the cliff, and then doubled back through the brush, being careful to leave no tracks. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z After that, he could turn west for the shortcut anywhere that looked promising. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Munster is almost as far north and west as you can get and still be in Indiana. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Mount Toro, on the brother range to the west, was a rounded benign mountain, and to the north Monterey Bay shone like a blue platter. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’ll be coming in from school, from the south. We can avoid his route entirely and come in on Highway 6, from the west.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Then I saw that the door leading to the west wing was open wide, and that someone was standing there. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He thought about heading out west, to the wilds of Ohio. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z The security team had him scheduled for the second watch—five p.m. to five a.m.—all the way at the far west end of the lake. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z So early on the morning of April 21, I flew west and took a taxi to the University of Chicago for an 11 A.M. appointment with the Dean of Admissions. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Losing to the cross-town rival from the west was one of those situations, a possibility even more horrid to Permian fans than that of Michael Dukakis becoming president. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The two of them were with other warriors on the west slope of a ridge. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The brick structure was all the way at the far west side of camp, cupped in one end of Thurmond’s long rectangle. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z As they went farther and farther west it grew colder. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time Oppenheimer disembarked from the 20th Century in Buffalo to return west, Groves recognized that he was the best choice of all. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Saluting the four directions—east, west, north, and south. It’s for Papa Legba. Are we going to New Jersey after school?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z If indeed the sun still sets in the west. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z They walked slowly out the west entrance and followed the stone-covered path. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z It was on their first excursion to the west that Benton had a vision of God in a dream. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Ned had made the long Journey west to Bear Island, only to find when he arrived that Jorah had taken ship beyond the reach of lee and the king's Justice. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I see York traveling west again, knowing which way to go this time. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z There were valuable things in the west wing. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z On this side of the River they passed forests of great reeds, so tall that they shut out all view to the west , as the little boats went rustling by along their fluttering borders. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Surrounded by water on three sides and forest everywhere else, Lost Cove is the end, the farthest point west you can go before falling off the world. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z We crossed that river and marched west into the mountains. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In the end the Mountain and a handful of his best had gained the west bank, but Edmure had thrown his reserve at them, and they had shattered and reeled away bloody and beaten. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Manhattan was only a few miles west, but each of the boroughs had its own unique identity, and none more so than Steinway Street in Queens. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Over his pallet was a window that looked out on the sea, but most often the shutters must be closed against the great winds that blew all winter from the west and north. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Jimmy looked down the slope to the west and turned and looked down the slope to the east. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Then I caught the patient’s eye and followed it, but could trace nothing as it looked into the moonlit sky except a big bat, which was flapping its silent and ghostly way to the west. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z What no one knew was that since her father passed, Captain Cat had been quietly exploring the west, sailing closer and closer to the edge of the world. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The next morning Jimmy and his grandpa drove south and got on Interstate 80 going west. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Its east—west major axis permitted many inventions adopted in one part of Eurasia to spread relatively rapidly to societies at similar latitudes and climates elsewhere in Eurasia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The red priest lifted his staff, and inclined its head toward the west. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The lakes, rivers, Inland Sea, Sea of Japan to the west, and Pacific Ocean to the east teem with fish such as salmon, trout, tuna, sardines, mackerel, herring, and cod. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She led him back, past the stairway door, all the way to the west edge of the Pipeworks. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The farther west the trail went, the higher it was; the pines were tall and thick, and brushy pinon and cedar filled the spaces between the big trees, blocking out nearly all the light. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “They can’t have made it this far west yet,” he said softly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Then I turned quickly and shut the door of the west wing behind me, and came out again through the archway by the stairs. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Frankly, we were more interested in the news that heavy rain was falling to the west of us and might soon reach our own parched village. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “You said he lives beside the west entrance to the mine,” I say. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It had stopped raining, and the clear sky was just at that darkening point as the sun dipped in the west. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Her efforts to support Mark Antony became more and more critical as Octavian’s power grew in the west. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z She caught a glimpse of silver wake in the moonlight, half a mile to the west. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z ‘I can see nothing away north or west but grass dwindling into mist,’ said Gimli. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z They were demanding a giant portable fish tank for the journey west. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Tayo watched the sun for a long time, and at the Acoma road they stopped and he watched it disappear behind the hills in the west. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Luis looked to the west, so we all turned to look with him. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever their reasons, they took their considerable earnings, loaded up with provisions in the Paradise Islands off the coast of Oxscini, and set a course for the blue and boundless west. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Each month he received copies of all their publications: love stories, wild west stories, detective stories, supernatural stories and what not. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Another mile west some buzzards circled over the gorge. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve almost forgotten what I’m supposed to be doing here, and I’m impatient to be gone, back to the west coast, back to the time zone where I live my life now. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Her father looked up at the sky—clouds were rolling in from the west. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “While sitting there on a bench, I noticed a large flight of aircraft approaching from the north- west.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z In ten minutes, or maybe twenty, he would rouse the men and they would pack up and head west, where the maps showed the country to be green and inviting. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t know whether Fred the Shark was ten meters below us, or one hundred meters to the west. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Far to their west on the Antarctic Peninsula was Erebus and Terror Gulf, named in honor of the two ships that had navigated the bottom of the world before being lost at the top. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z The moon might be up in the pastel aqua blue overhead while the sun flamed orange in the west, and other kids, younger boys and girls on bikes, might also stop by. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "When they do get married," continued Catherine, "they're going west to live for a while until it blows over." The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The sun in the west was a drop of burning gold that slid nearer and nearer the sill of the world. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z They made their way west, stopping every once in a while to ask directions to the river. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Mist churns over the lake as the cold air from the east mixes with the west’s fading hot breath. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Off to the west there was thunder, soft little moaning sounds, and the monsoons seemed to be a lasting element of the war. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Already he’d borrowed heavily to redo their house, to buy into the west side subdivision and golf course, and to wheedle a position on the proposed ski valley’s board of directors. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A storm was way off to the west, beyond the mountains. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Some flew west, some south; some migrated by day and some by night. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z "This is the west wing of the palace. The residential homes of the royal family are here." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z On the night of the second day, Madoka from Malawi and I walked west along Forty-seventh Street without realizing we were heading straight into the heart of Times Square. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Cora crossed to the west, where the colored dormitories lay. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Many westerners believed that the pioneering women who had moved west and endured significant hardship now deserved the right to participate in government through the vote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “The reservoir is about a mile that way,” I say, pointing west. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Driving west out of Atlanta, he intended to invent an utterly new life for himself, one in which he would be free to wallow in unfiltered experience. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Had I turned to go home just an instant sooner or had I been facing east instead of west, I would have climbed down that hill full of peace and comfort. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z The Cimmerians lived there, but whether east, west, north or south, no one knew. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Others crept through the grass on the east and west. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “I assume you know that the Taigaryen girl has not started for the west?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The Egyptians, who were considered second-class citizens, lived in the old part of the city on the west side. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z ‘A score or more. But two have gone off west across country.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z On the west side, the observation train jolted to a stop adjacent to the line of stake boats. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Nearly due west the broad swath of the marching Orcs tramped its ugly slot; the sweet grass of Rohan had been bruised and blackened as they passed. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The way to Minas Tirith lies upon this side, upon the west; but the straight road of the Quest lies east of the River, upon the darker shore. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The two men walked between the rows some more, made the crest of the rise, and turned west behind some raspberry canes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Her gym was on the East Side, in what used to be a good part of town, near the bridge that connected the east and west banks. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z After the first Friday, a bone-weary Ernest Lawrence boarded a red-eye flight west for a few days at Balboa and was back in the air two days later for another grueling week. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z "Now there's trouble in the west. But things will settle down. You'll see." The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z In the west and in the south too, the clouds with round heavy bellies had gathered for the dawn. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Seizing the moment, Lee escapes north across the Appomattox River and then turns west. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z The day had been soft and fair, and the evening was pink and gold to the west, a dusky blue over the sea. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Now the German troops would have to fight on front lines in both the east and the west of Europe. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z My calculations told me that I needed to walk another two kilometers west before stopping for the night. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Robin slept after the woman fed him and didn’t wake until the sun was low in the west. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z And I already worked out it's traveling west. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Sander pointed out the roofs of the queen's London residence far off to the west, and the Tower prison to the east. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The journey from Carthage to the west coast of Italy was easy as compared with what had gone before. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the Missouri on the Mandan side, it is pure west, with brown grass and water scorings and small outcrops. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east, when the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There were whispers that Miss Preston had taken a Sioux lover while out west and that she kept a single eagle feather in his memory, but I don’t believe any of that. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “No. It’s the map of Oklahoma. It’s shaped like a hand with a finger pointing west.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Moreover, his predecessors had been quite happy to use two distinct models for each planet: one to calculate its movement from east to west, and the other its movement from north to south. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Listening to the talk as she went about her work, Arya had learned that Robb had won some great victory in the west. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Perhaps it was the jagged mountains to the west. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Even the little group sitting in the wedge of bleachers behind the west end zone seems to be getting into the intoxicating pace of the game. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s no way to tell if the fire is spreading, downward or farther east or west. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z There’s a life-size sculpture of Zephyr, the Greek god of the west wind brought to life by Francavilla, a crown on his head and one foot on a cloud. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The fire was contained to the west side, and they hoped to have it out soon. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Far ahead they could see how the road curved and bent through the field as the sun began to set to the west. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z “That man who caused the trouble in the store a while ago lives out west of Rose Hill— that’s on your road home, isn’t it?” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z I came out on the west side of the school, jumped down the handicap entrance ramp, and made it to the northwest corner in time to catch Celia in the stomach with my arm. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Two miles to the west, there were three spots of light in a triangle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z You shall go west, and face the god who has turned. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z They reasoned that eastern Poland, closer to the Soviets, would be safer than the west, with its proximity to Germany. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Besides, the rooms in the west wing were not shown to the public. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z We hit the Friday night street traffic on 39th Avenue going west toward Corona. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z "With the war in the riverlands and Lord Renly raising rebels in High- garden, the roads are closed to south and west." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Then what you’re saying, Em, is that this Joe Mondragon is illegally irrigating his father’s land, or his own land as the case may be, over there on the west side.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Then abruptly on the third rotation Natalie breaks off and heads to the west stairs. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m walking around to the windy west side of the island now, craning my neck back to hear what she says. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z They walked west across the long mesa where the old ones had piled stones in circles, high above the flat sandstone mesa top far above the canyons and springs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z It climbed like a rising girdle from the west and wound snakelike about the Mountain, until before it went round out of view it reached the foot of the cone upon its eastern side. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z They were feted by premiers and emirs and entertained at embassies and consulates as they made their way back west to Palermo, Sicily, where they boarded another tanker for the homeward passage. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The fire was contained to the west side, and they hoped to have it out soon. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The back door of the truck unlatched “Free ride west, punk. Stop complaining. And here’s a little something for doing the job.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The three gateways she’d come from—north, east, and west—began to swirl with Mist. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z That day, however, as Mary Jackson ran into Kazimierz Czarnecki on the west side of the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, there was no turning inward, no subversion, and no dissembling. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Still—I was desolated when he climbed away and headed back west. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Mudd then attempted to send the manhunters on a wild goose chase, claiming the strangers asked for directions to a farm to the west. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The three of them wended west, tromping through the black water. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He ran down the gravel to the main road and then started running west away from Washington and Millsburg—and the old Perkins place. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Octavian Attacks Egypt In the spring of 30 BCE, Octavian attacked Egypt by sea on the west and by land on the east. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z What wind there was was from the northeast and the fox, coming up the combe from the west, might have broken in upon them without warning. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “Indeed. We might have come west sooner, you know, but no one had trained a threave hawk in two hundred years. We decided to wait until that had been mastered.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z There were few trees this size in west Austin. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z We sat for hours under that tree, sat there until the sun faded in the west, and still Hassan insisted we had enough daylight for one more story, one more chapter. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He heard someone come up from the west side of the ridge. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The shutter had been pulled aside from the window of the large bedroom in the west wing, and someone was standing there, looking down upon the lawns. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z If you drop something from the top of a tower it should fall considerably to the west of the base of the tower. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z From the west there was a warm wind and the sun was very bright. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Then she must have fainted, because the next thing she noticed was the sun, lying very low in the west. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The sim was low to the west, and the houses cast long dark shadows. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, the Wampanoag were rivals and enemies of the Narragansett and Pequots to the west and the many groups of Abenaki to the north. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And I drove as quietly as I could, for on this day I intended to drive a little west and then take the long road south down the long reach of Maine. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In less than a minute it had set once more in the west and then, without any pause, risen again in the east. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z “From the spring just fifty yards west of here, isn’t that correct?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z It was heartening, he said, that she would go to university in Igboland since she had lived her whole life in the west. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I was heading west with no adult supervision, no backup plan, not even a cell phone. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z I ignore the growling in my stomach and pray that I'll be at the west border of Central Park soon. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Soon afterwards they came upon another stream that ran down from the west, and joined its bubbling water with the hurrying Silverlode. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z At the shipping channel, the foghorn sounded again, as the boat came around to the west and picked up more speed. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The dark was coming on hard now, and off to the west I could see the mountains rising in silhouette, all the mysteries and unknowns. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it meant that parity had been reached, that tonight was the night for the west side of Odessa to reach back into history, to show that it too could excel at what mattered most. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m not sitting in this traffic. It could cost me my life. You’ll be quicker cutting through the Old City on foot and walking out on the west road.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z I move to the west wall, where the new paintings are. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Less than a mile away, and a little below them, for they still stood high up on the west side of the dale, there lay a mere. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Three hundred yards to the west I was shivering uncontrollably in my tent—even though I was zipped into my sleeping bag, and wearing my down suit and every other stitch of clothing I had. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z At last Aeneas was told in a dream that the place destined for them was a country far away to the west, Italy—in those days called Hesperia, the Western Country. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They cut across the lawn and headed west, toward the building marked by a star on the Little Comic Con map Rishi was holding. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Down the ravine, west of the hill above the springhouse, Harry had built three wonderful little dams. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z “In the south and west part of the city. The zoo is nearby, and the university too.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I said, “Uh-huh, we kind of had a fight. How long’s it take to get out west?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z An old tar pail rattled in the bed of his ancient pickup as he pointed me west to the Maricopas. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z The sun, falling in the west, to the left of the Chevy, snuck into the car at an insidious angle, causing Reggie to squint. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z To the west, maize hills marched across the sandy hillocks in parallel rows. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Sherm lived in one of the brownstones that lined a few side streets on the west side of Broadway. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z I don’t know what time it is when we walk across the parade grounds to the west stairwell. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “So you want to randomly flash S-O-S north, south, east, west and hope to get lucky?” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z When a column of riders appeared from the west, the guardsmen sprang into action, shouting commands and moving the carts and foot traffic aside to let the knight enter with his escort. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z We lay down in the Sheep Meadow, and my sister told me about driving west, with the sun on your face. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z A drizzly gray rain began almost as soon as the group of several hundred left the camp, headed west. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z “But you been writing about things up here, about Jose and his stupid field over there on the west side, so you must know a lot about this town.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z At last, just as Vilthuril was about to go on with the story, they heard hooves on the turf and the horseman appeared from the west, cantering easily along the track toward Cannon Heath Down. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He could see the bend of the river and the two bridges, one leading west and the one to the south, where they had crossed yesterday. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z She said, “Boys, why you always got to be at odds? One fast, one slow. One say east, t’other say west. Stop all that foolishness.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Poor whites from west Texas, her family was so badly off sometimes she’d come to school with no lunch and no money and we would split whatever I had brought along. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “Wherever the wind takes us. High, low. Near, far. East, west. North, south. We take to the breeze, we go as we please.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z They are all examples of Western music, and are all more like each other than they are like a Navajo lullaby, a Chinese opera, or a west African praise song. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Yet they walked all that day and most of the next before at last they reached the fringes of Lord Tywin's army, encamped west of the castle amidst the scorched remains of a town. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I waved to the captain, he waved back, then curled to the west. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Inside Bag End, Bilbo and Gandalf were sitting at the open window of a small room looking out west on to the garden. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Like I said, I wasn’t there. I’ve been up around the ironworks the last couple days,” he nodded to the west. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Downcountry a storm had passed over the isthmus and leveled the dead black trees from east to west like weeds in the floor of a stream. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The men Robb Stark had sent joined them at the King's Gate for the long ride west. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The tower sits at the edge of the cliffs and overlooks the dunes to the east and the school to the west. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The show is held in a small defunct supermarket, west on Bloor Street. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Midday, he thought, judging it to be almost exactly between the west and east horizons. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The third, called relocation, was just opening up: interned citizens who could find a job and a sponsor somewhere inland, away from the west coast, were beginning to trickle out of camp. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z When I got to the building in the west, there were two guys standing guard out front. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z “Take Highway 14 west to Spring Green. We’ll be meeting everyone at a place called the House on the Rock. You been there?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Then I ran west, into the living room. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He drank what water he had left in the sealskin pouch, and steered around the westernmost headland until he came into a wide strait between it and a second island lying to the west. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Then, as the train headed west, he explained what the new job would involve. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z If you fired a cannon to the west, the ball would go further than if you fired it to the east. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z It would alleviate the perception of Odessa High as the “Mexican school,” which was having the inevitable effect of steering middle-class whites away from the west side. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I drive for almost two hours, west into the hinterlands of Maryland. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Now, 60,000 Japanese Americans were returning to their former communities on the west coast and being put into trailer camps, Quonset huts, back rooms of private homes, church social halls, anywhere they could fit. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The views were sensational, across lazy hills to the Adirondacks half a dozen miles to the west, but it was really hot. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z One was looking west and the other was looking east. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z When the fellow began to pick the box the people begin to come from east, west, north and Australia. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z The city of Reston, Virginia, is a prosperous community about ten miles west of Washington, D.C., just beyond the Beltway. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The first flakes came drifting down as the sun was setting in the west. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Outside the building, she started to walk west to Lexington to catch the bus. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z From here, Jon Connington had ruled broad lands extending many leagues to the west, north, and south, just as his father and his father’s father had before him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Suddenly they slowed, and one line turned west and the other turned east. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z You do not have to sail west, but if you do you will end up in America. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The Old Grange on the west side had been knocked down, and its place taken by rows of tarred sheds. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He pulled Devin out of line in the north and brought him in alongside Gamble: two thousand men facing west. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew the sun didn't rise and set exactly in the east and west; more southeast and southwest, but he wasn't sure how that made a difference. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z The case, then commanding headlines as far east as Chicago, as far west as Denver, had indeed lured to Garden City a considerable press corps. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z From the top of a hill, young Light Hair looked to the west. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z "I have not told you the worst of it, child. The men I sent west have brought back word that a new host is gathering at easterly Rock." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z ‘It is now almost due west of us. That way lies Isengard.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I turned west, away from the fields, and faced the peak. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They could go no further without choice between the east-way and the west. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It ran cunningly, taking a line that seemed chosen so as to keep as much hidden as possible from the view, both of the hill-tops above and of the flats to the west. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “I was hoping the wind had shifted and we were blowing west toward land.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Our sails are full of a steady wind as we head relentlessly west. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z I hope no heavy snow fells until we have got over the evil ground between this place and the glacier-arm we saw some miles to the west from the ridge. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Even though the two families lived inside it, the house was smaller than most of the homes in west Austin where Armpit planted shrubs and installed irrigation systems. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z There was one small gray area of the sky still aglow in the west; the rest was blackness, and flashes of lightning. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But instead of walking east to the church, he went west. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z “Sunday,” she announces when we’re settled in our private spot at the top of the west stairs. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside again, he spent a bungling five minutes sloppily tying the cords holding his suitcase together, and, when that was more or less accomplished, he hoisted the suitcase with a grunt and began walking west. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Only Captain Reed kept them moving forward, seeking out sluggish currents in the still water, maintaining their course despite the blinding light and the blistering heat of the west. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z ‘Big things going on away west, they say.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z There were no directions here, no north or south or east or west, only towards and away. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The Capitol had another nuclear arsenal out west, but it couldn’t attack 13 without certain retaliation. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Beyond the ack-ack, they heard artillery fire, their own, some way further to the west. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The field had been turned a last time and there were stalks of stubble sticking out of the ground and the faint trace of the disc was still visible from east to west. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “Fascinated by it. He used to read endless books. Was a big Star Trek fan. He loved the final frontier. We had several high-powered telescopes too. Still do, in storage out west.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z They came in wagons from way up in Georgia and they came in truck loads from east, west, north and south. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I felt that the truck was going east, and couldn’t get rid of this impression even when it became plain that it was going west, farther and farther into Orgoreyn. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Many packed up instantly and began to move west, terrified that their village would be next to fall into the hands of Stalin's armies. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The sun was sinking fast now; the sky had turned to a clear, purple-tinged grey, but to the west there was a ruby-red glow. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Since I couldn’t go home, I decided to spend the day in the marsh down the west side of the mountain. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z They had splashed through two brooks and wandered fearfully in the deep woodlands west of Ecchinswell. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They went back to the path that still went on along the west side of the Silverlode, and for some way they followed it southward. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He stood up, decided that west would be his best option, and began to walk. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z We’d heard rumors of rain in the river valleys west of us, and those tales aroused the deepest thirst you can imagine—the thirst of dying crops and animals. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z We lived in the Portland Avenue Stacks, a sprawling hive of discolored tin shoeboxes rusting on the shores of I-40, just west of Oklahoma City’s decaying skyscraper core. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z There was a gust of wind, then, so strong that it rattled the windows of the village, and whirled and spun the weathercocks until they could not tell north from west or south from east. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Pickett’s troops were beginning to form in the fields to the west, out of sight of the Union line. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Upriver the land was more rugged, die dense forest giving way to a series of bare stony hills that rose high and wild to the north and west. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Across the gorge and slightly upstream, perched on a gravel bench on the west side, was the government-built town the clerk had told Joe was Engineer City—home to technical and supervisory personnel. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Why, I had a cousin who worked his way west on the Union Pacific,” Miss Whitlaw said. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The wealth was farther west, but they had dragons. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z One of my most vivid memories is of coming back west from prep school and later from college at Christmas time. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z At first, Japan might seem to be geographically very similar to Britain, both being large archipelagoes flanking the Eurasian continent on the east and the west respectively. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Rat looked off to the west, scanning the mountains, as if expecting something to appear on one of the high ridgelines. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Beidleman knew they were on the eastern, Tibetan side of the Col and that the tents lay somewhere to the west. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z A dressmaker had made it, in the East, in the place where Ma came from when she married Pa and moved out west to the Big Woods in Wisconsin. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z According to Armpit’s father, the cost of air-conditioning the homes in west Austin, with their high ceilings and grand entrances, was greater than the amount he paid in rent. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Buka lies out of sight of the closest island to the west and could have been reached only by crossing a water gap of about 100 miles. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Rumor is that Miss Preston's people had gone west to the Minnesota Territory before the war but came back when the undead got the better of them. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Directly behind them in the west everything was a deep and placid early-afternoon blue. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They must have only been taken from the bigger camps, not the smaller ones that had been cobbled together farther west. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z They stood in the door watching the light draw down over the world to the west. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z “Too much time out west in the wide open. He thinks he's safer behind the walls in Baltimore than he is out here.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z On April 19 the fire drove the soldiers and firemen west into Howard’s neighborhood. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z My eyes closed and the moon drew me west, away from the island of my melancholy. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Somewhere over those mountains in the west slept the city where my harelipped brother and I had run kites. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z When he leaves his flat in the early afternoon to find something to eat, the streets are already buzzing with the news: a strange circus has appeared overnight, just west of the city. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Some five hundred warriors hid on either side of the high, narrow ridge—about half of them in the gullies on the east side and the others on the west. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The sun slanted lower and lower in the west. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Only, as the west wind tore the golden rags away, they looked fascinating and difficult to catch. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The stink in the air tells me that the glittering patch of blue to the west of me is Lake Vitan. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z We emerged from the smoke and found the bridge before us; but we saw also that the rebels had now organized their lines to the west, curving around us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The west wing bunks were similar to those I had left be hind. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Shortly before sunset Herr Thiessen heads west, finding the circus easily as there is a large crowd assembled outside already. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Both lanes are clogged—everyone staggers west, away. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Well, they both head north toward the Han River. One will take you to the east side and the other will take you to the west side.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z But the East Enders stayed in the east and the West Enders stayed in the west, and the less they knew about each other, the more they invented. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The Ladd Devine Company had started drawing up plans for the recreation development about the same time people were losing their water rights and beginning a wholesale exodus from the hapless west side. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She followed its path with her eyes to where it wound out of sight, going west. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The last light of June burned in the west. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There icy runoff from the eastern snowcaps meets the sun in the west, pouring into a river that feeds the glacier blue lake. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The sun was in the west when I left the shore. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind was blowing from the west, and it was difficult to be certain but he thought he heard the low hum of an engine. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Two nights later he chewed through his leash and jogged west. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The neighborhood of Indian Village lay just twelve blocks west of Hurlbut, but it was a different world altogether. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The sun was far in the west, but luckily my shadow fell away from the young bull. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Formerly, when the subject of relocating came up, Royal told Cora he favored Canada over the west. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Then, he hitched the horses to the carriage and climbed into the driver's seat and drove them toward the forest, to the west, and to the mountain range beyond. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z They were strung out on the south slope of a round lava rock hill, moving west along the fence line. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The peaks to the west were lit up and spilling some of the light down their sides and onto our fields, all harvested and turned and ready for the long winter. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z “I know. Imagine if I'd gone west instead of north when I left my uncle. I’d have never found you. I mean, any of you guys.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z When the newcomers moved west, they were preceded by a wave of disease and then a wave of ecological disturbance. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In the afternoon, I groped west along the hill. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He shook the snow off carefully, moving around the tree from the east to the south, and from the west to the north, his breath steaming out in front of him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “But how can we ever figure how far west of London we are—when we’re here—and London is away off somewhere else?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The oldest, richest part of the city was east of the river, but sellswords, barbarians, and other uncouth outlanders were not welcome there, so they must needs cross over to the west. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Then the squall struck whining from the west, with gale force, breaking both forestays, and the mast came toppling aft along the ship’s length, so the running rigging showered into the bilge. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They look like a disease, but to the north and west, the untouched hills are a calm reminder. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z They traded at a gas station on the west side that was run by Clyde’s father. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun turned from the noon and began to go west. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Garrett stands on a flat boulder, still out of breath, looking west. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He would sail a line at 250 degrees, west into the Pacific, a line west for Owen into the night. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He instructed me to pack up my things, explaining that Arcanum students were located in the west wing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z From their barren hills the Hamiltons could look down to the west and see the richness of the bottom land and the greenness around the Salinas River. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Use this to head as far west as you care to go. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “You keep watching me,” she said one night as we watched a summer storm coming in from the west. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z A young man with curly brown hair, pebbly eyes dark beneath his straw hat, drove a team of workhorses from the west. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z On the west side of the beech hanger, in the evening sun, Hazel and Fiver were sitting with Holly, Silver and Groundsel. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He turned around and began walking to the west, back toward the bus, back into the fickle heart of the bush. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The water pelted windowpanes, running down the charred west side where the house had been burned evenly free of its white paint. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “Can I put one half mile west of the Tate house, near the three-forked oak?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z The shout came from the west side of the hall as a handsome stripling of a boy strode forth boldly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The boat had brought him west from Drake. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Above this hillside, the forest rose to the north and west, back to the road. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z After thinking long and hard and consulting with his parents, Carl decided to go west. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z At sixty-seven he moved himself and his hones west, “to join the other fossils.” Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Two days later, halfway there, he arrived in heavy rain at the beaver ponds that blocked access to the west bank of the Teklanika River. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He rode west along the south rim of the plateau, watching for sudden movements that were speckled white. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Up on the green, green hill rising to the west I could see a small herd of cattle grazing. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The weather was wet and cold for quite a week, as it often can be in the west country in early summer, and we did not go down to the beach again. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The development has grown from the west side to the east side, and we’re on the last street before the east wall. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z My avatar now stood in that open field, just west of the white house. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Worse, the very thought of going back to the west coast filled us with dread. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The entire west face of the house was black, save for five places. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z He was walking past the fallow field west of the Wood when he saw lights dancing in the copse by the river, accompanied by the most beautiful flute music he had ever heard. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The Warehouse Building, a brand-new space on the west side of the laboratory, a part of the campus that was still more wilderness than anything resembling a workplace, could be just the thing. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z He was away in the west, and Bran was crippled, and Rickon only four. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Mom added, “He lives in the brown-and-beige Tudor on the west side.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And with more loved ones getting sick and word spreading of an even worse strain of influenza heading west from Chicago, Indianapolis, and Des Moines, those wives and mothers were determined to protect their families. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z He held it up high above his head, first to the north and then to the south, and then to the east and the west. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z “It’s this feeling. I know we have to go to the west.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z He would know soon if the vehicle kept going west or if it turned south down the sandy road overgrown with weeds, and came toward the mine. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Adam swung out his hand and made an arc over the west. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Soon the dwindling company, following the Isen, turned west and rode through the Gap into the waste lands beyond, and then they turned northwards, and passed over the borders of Dunland. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The north and west were surely never meant to be left out of his diabolical scheme—let alone the City itself and the very heart of fashionable London in the south-west and west. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Other examples of complex technologies that diffused east and west in the ancient Old World, from a single West Asian source, include door locks, pulleys, rotary querns, windmills—and the alphabet. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In the west, and unheeded, the sun lay only an inch or two above the sea. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Not only kids, but grownups, too, black and white, because Cobble’s Corner was on Hector, and word was racing through the neighborhoods on both the east and west sides of the street. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He envisioned an alliance of all the peoples west to the Mississippi, north into the Great Lakes region, and south to the Gulf of Mexico. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z In towns further west that did not get the news until morning, farmers were in such haste to join the battle in Lexington that they literally left their plows in the fields. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Now night had come on, rough, with no moon, but a nightlong downpour setting in, the rainwind blowing hard from the west. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Then every wind roared into hurricane; the ships went pitching west with many cries; our land was lost. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Home lay to the west, his instinct told him; but he could not leave the other two—so somehow he must take them with him, all the way. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Upon the west to their right the land was treeless also, but it was flat, and in many places green with wide plains of grass. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z On March 23, they spied land to the west, probably one of the Danger Islands at the entrance to Erebus and Terror Gulf—a scant fifty-seven miles away. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z As if on cue, a steam engine chugged through the hills just west of us. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “It’s not hard to find, it’s just west of Darulaman Boulevard,” he said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Well, that trail came to this place, and then went on farther to the west. This place is Fort Laramie. It’s been here a long time.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z They make a trip together, to a museum in Montpellier, about fifty miles to the west of Arles. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z All in all it was a most satisfactory life—a slice, at least, of the dream Harry had come west to live. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The approaching humans are coming from the west. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Over the pond the west wind blew, and into the teeth of the west wind sailed the sloops and schooners, their rails well down, their wet decks gleaming. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z “Yeah. Well, not this side of the neighborhood. I'm from the west side.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z If they turned west from here, it was an easy ride down to Riverrun. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z New Jersey motorists, learning about the invasion on their car radios, headed west, “disregarding speed laws and curves in their race to escape the death rays.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z He would read about the housing shortage all along the west coast, brought on by wartime population growth, and he would throw the paper down in disgust. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z On West Harrison Street in Chicago, two miles west of the city’s downtown, there is an ornate, block-long building designed and built in the early part of the last century. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z He and Jimmy were near a marker overlooking the river, which was below them and to the west. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z There the stair was covered by a small domed chamber in the midst of the roof, with low doors facing east and west. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He watched them disappear into the junipers of the wide canyon to the west, and then he switched his stubby tail around his haunches a few times, and trotted after them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I remember that on that moonless night in February 1942, they attacked the big Lago oil refinery on Aruba, the sister island west of us. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He stared at the stream of cars flowing west toward San Francisco and wished he were in one of them. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Like the Sun and the Moon, stars always rise in the east and set in the west, taking the whole night to cross the sky if they pass overhead. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Out west” could have meant California, Idaho, Oregon, Illinois, or Arizona. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z We’d finish the field on the north side of the village, and cross to the west — but that was a long walk, and he’d let me ride the ox. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z As we headed west on Route 22,1 began to feel a real sense of hope about Tangerine Middle School. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z By the summer of 1944, reports were circulating that the war had swung in favor of the Allies, mainly the Americans and the British to the west and the Soviets in the east. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z It takes ten minutes to get to the west stairs on the parade grounds. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z But did the wind come down from the north or out of the west on the North Slope of Alaska? Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It burned sullenly, giving off an acrid smoke that the wind brushed away to the north and west, toward the unseen bluffs. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The wind was blowing from west to east, blowing the smoke of the muck fire through the starry sky. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He says nothing but keeps drinking as I drive past Edgar Street and head west, circling to the back end of town. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Hazel and Bigwig went with them to the southern end of the hanger and watched as they slipped away, heading to the west of the distant farm. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z One after another, the guards on the west side of the bridge lowered their staffs. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Grandma’s house was less than a mile away, a canary yellow island to the west. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z His first long trip was to the west, to Chicago, where he knew there had been an underground Air Force command post. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z “The bank, that must be the bank, now we turn west—see the trees? This is it, this has to be it.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Roast Missionary, à la Dahomey, west coast of Africa. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Life with Cleopatra meant gaining supreme power that would unite the east and the west under his command. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Both roads were heading north; however, one was in an easterly direction while the other one veered sharply to the west. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The storm had been pushing him south and west at eight miles an hour for probably twenty-four hours. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Declination’ here means variation east and west, while ‘inclination’ means variation up or down from the horizontal. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z On the plains of the American west, where steer 534 was born, bison and the prairie grasses lived together in partnership for thousands of years. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Looking west they could see, below them in a haze of light, lowlands and broad meads, and glinting far off in the westering sun the wide waters of the Anduin. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The only suitable place they had found was seven miles to the west. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z It was a wide circular pit with two openings, one on the east and the other on the west. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The sky has gray clouds blowing in from the west, and with them comes the smell of rain and a heaviness in the air, but Kalinda doesn’t seem to care. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z With the track pulled out of Coalwood, the N&W Railroad Company had abandoned the spur line in the wilderness of Big Branch, about five miles west of Cape Coalwood. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I went beneath the arch again, and when I came out on to the long corridor I saw that the door to the west wing had blow open and swung back against the wall. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Still, he could not speak out, and he only looked east and west and feigned to have mislaid his pipe in his garments, and he fumbled in his girdle. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Traveling west along the northern routes I did not hear a truly local speech until I reached Montana. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time they reached Volantis, the sky was purple to the west and black to the east, and the stars were coming out. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And on the west, on the far outskirts of town, we drove past what looked like a garden shed. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I wanted to leave out the west exit, but the north doors were closer, so I headed for them. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Seventeen days after Germany had invaded Poland from the west, the Soviet Union had invaded from the east. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z It was nearly dark under the stormclouds, but now and again they made out the light to the west, enough to set course by, and so struggled on. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The clouds were thin today, a few streaks of sunlight escaping through far away in the west. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Off in the distance there was another rise; he could see the Reb column withdrawing into a blue west. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Spain held the rest of Florida, along with most of the land west of the Mississippi River. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The most distressing change here at Rose Hill is that, due to the undead plague, most of the people in the valley have abandoned their farms for easier living out west. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “Zach is taking care of the hives on the east side of the county. So you and I’ve got the west side.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Tom joined his company at a campsite sixty-five miles west of Abilene. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It further rankled the westerners that the prejudices of the East overwhelmingly prevailed in the national press, which often seemed to operate on the assumption that anything west of the Rockies was China. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z To the west meandered the river Strom, glittering like a silver ribbon in the golden sun. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Partly in recognition of his advancing years, in 1617 Galileo moved to a fine villa—almost a palace—known as Bellosguardo, on a hill to the west of Florence. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z I quick looked out the window to the west and saw the sky was blue and sunshiny. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z The next day I woke late, washed in a nearby stream, and made my way west to the University. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I reached a valley with a rise to the west. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Oscar, for some reason, headed west for La Rochelle on the Atlantic coast, while my father remained in Paris for the time being. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z He decides that it is her very familiarity that makes him curious about her, and as he begins to walk west, to the subway, he wonders when he might see her again. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z To the west lightning flickered in sheets broken by jagged streaks. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I followed his finger as he pointed to the north and west. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z “This must be a most inconvenient sitting room for the evening, in summer; the windows are full west.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z The wind carried Nina farther and farther west, over the front line and into enemy territory. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z "Amazonia," by contrast, refers to the bigger region bounded by the Andes to the west, the Guiana Shield to the north, and the Brazilian Shield to the south. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, as Silver guided them southward along higher ground to the west of the farm, almost all, now that they were actually committed to the adventure, felt dread and apprehension. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Two minutes later he walked out again accompanied by Buddy Gabaldon, and they pulled away from the headquarters heading for Snuffy Ledoux’s humble adobe abode on the west side of town. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The great multiple glacier we are on feeds down into the valley from the west, and we are on its extreme eastern edge. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Time was when a squirrel could go from tree to tree from what is now the Shire to Dunland west of Isengard. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z They found the Golden Company beside the river as the sun was lowering in the west. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z To east and west, the trumpets of the Mallisters and Freys blew vengeance. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z But behind that veil, many believed, was often a thinly disguised contempt for the fundamental social changes taking place at the school, and on the west side of town in general. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Birds, when they take off from trees, should be swept away towards the west. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As the full moon comes over the tips of the hemlocks in the east and the sun goes down in the west, I climb down the falls and splash toward the bridge. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z To the west the sky was opening into a high gray overcast, and where the clouds were rubbed thin, the streaks of sky were almost blue. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Cicadas and crickets sang farewell to the sun slipping toward the west. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This place lay on a headland a half league to the west of Coral Cove. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “We must go west,” he said, and his eyes searched the stone shoulder behind the cleft. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z A warm gust from the west times itself perfectly with my story. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The sun is warm then and the winds blow milder out of the west, sometimes out of the south. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Half heaven was pure and stainless: the clouds, now trooping before the wind, which had shifted to the west, were filing off eastward in long, silvered columns. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z They were too busy fighting the Germans in the west. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z On Alex’s map, nevertheless, the broken line meandered west from the Parks Highway for forty miles or so before petering out in the middle of trackless wilderness north of Mt. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z After several minutes, the fort’s west gate opened and soldiers hurried out. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The muezzin’s call for namaz rang out, and the Mujahideen set down their guns, faced west, and prayed. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z It stood on a hill among green fields of barley, sheltered from the west wind by a grove of pendick-trees that now were red with flowers. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “I suppose you could go west,” he muses. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z The sun was already dipping in the west. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Beginning in the Administration Building, with a single wind tunnel, the lab grew until space limits pushed it to expand to the west onto several large properties tracing their provenance to colonial-era plantations. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z I knew my mother was grown but I couldn’t let her go into the night, walking up the road like she was on the west side of Oakland. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z In her mind’s eye, she could see in the distance, off toward the west, the grayish smear of cliffs cutting through the forest. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z When the wind was from the west, carrying the smell of burned land, the men seemed tense. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z To the east, a fence and shed of James Dalton’s went up in flames; to the west, a barn smoldered for a few minutes, then flared up into a thousand yellow-orange fingers. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z They had built a gallows up on a hill to the west of the encampment. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z All of these items are now stacked in a climate-controlled storage space just west of here, out on Route 22. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She asks where exactly he’s from out west—what town, what state? Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z To the west, passing a lumber mill teepee burner whose tip glowed red, was an orchard valley along the Rio Grande. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Thankfully, there was another way off the mountain to the north and west, along paths much gentler than the one that had brought them up here. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I planned to take my canoe and go to the west part of the island. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandma looked up—far out to the west, down where the road and the Wabash tracks seemed to meet. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The sky was navy blue in the east, azure overhead, purple bleeding out to a pink-stained orange in the west. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He grabs a pair of sneakers, and they take off while he’s still pulling them on, running west. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Well,” Minli said slowly, “the fish said to go west until I reached the City of Bright Moonlight. Once there, I’m supposed to find the Guardian of the City.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z We drive out of that fancy place and back to the west side, where he parks in front of a short yellow building called a Coney Island. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z “This thing” Grover warned, “is our ticket west. Be nice to him.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z We sat side by side, lotus style, facing west. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Then I settled myself in and faced west. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The smoke coiled above the treetops, a single cumulous bloom of grey far enough to the west that it looked manageable. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z If Winterfell needed to brace for war, how much more so Riverrun, so much closer to King's Landing, with the power of easterly Rock looming to the west like a shadow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Ancient Taiwanese were great seafarers whose descendants spread out far to the south, east, and west; some of them may also have spread north, to Kyushu. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Quivers hanging from their belts, the foot archers arrayed themselves into three long lines, to east and west of the road, and stood calmly stringing their bows. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z We get out on the road, still heading west. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z A few avenues to the west, Model T automobiles delivered well-dressed ladies and gentlemen to the doors of imposing three-story brick and stone homes. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “When we left the flames were still confined to the west wing of the building.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Even as he gazed his quick ears caught sounds in the woodlands below, on the west side of the River. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She pointed west, then at the northern constellation, which was hard to make out because there were so many other stars. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Behind them, in the west, the crimson and orange were almost faded; a dark bank of cloud had crept into the zenith. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z He lives with his mother outside west Berlin. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z This is the place, a kind of imaginary line in the ocean, where all ships going east add an extra day to that week and all ships going west drop a day. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It sat on the desert of west Texas, barren mountains rising behind. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z But all the land west of where I am is black, like it’s draped in a dark blanket. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z East and west of it were many, many lodges. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z He went west with the quick magewind in his sail, and came in sight of the rocks of Pendor, the still streets of the town, and the gutted, falling towers. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z "Even in the west, we know the prowess of the warrior clans of the Mountains of the Moon. What brings you down from your strongholds, my lords?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z In the autumn the leaves flamed and rat- fled before the west winds, tempering their sad atheu with glory. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun would slant in from the west in the late afternoon until the room was brimful of light. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z Twenty years earlier, at the request of Chicago’s South Park commissioners, Olmsted had studied both Jackson Park and, to its west, Washington Park, and the broad boulevard that connected them, called Midway. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “I’ve seen them flying west with the fish in their talons.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s part of the reason why Fertile Crescent domesticates spread west and east so rapidly: they were already well adapted to the climates of the regions to which they were spreading. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When the sun was dropping near the center of the west window, they stood up. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z But when it did reach out to its south and west, Tiwanaku transformed itself to become what Alan Kolata, an archaeologist at the University of Chicago, has called a “predatory state.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Localities distributed east and west of each other at the same latitude share exactly the same day length and its seasonal variations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Some way in front of it, before the gate at the bridge-end, the road from the west converged with others coming from the south, and from Barad-dûr. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Then, after they saw the Amish they were going to circle west and join the highway to Dean Town, passing through Baylor on the way. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z The train car is an oven, and the vibration of the wheels rattles our bones until Ym positive we will arrive out west little more than a bowl of jelly. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “They’re moving her tomorrow morning. They’ll be taking her to the airstrip just west of here to fly her into the Capital.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The monks arrived as early as the fifth and sixth centuries a.d., having sailed and rowed from the west coast of Ireland. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There was one in particular, in the west above the mountains but low in the sky, that shone more brightly than all the rest. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z At the north, south, east, and west points of the circle, she sprinkled some of the powder on the ground. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I imagined the proud man going into exile step by step, a small trudging figure on the long road west to the Gulf. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z To the west sunlight blazed off the golden domes of the Temple of the Graces, and etched deep shadows behind the stepped pyramids of the mighty. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Heading west on I-10, she felt some measure of relief in knowing that at the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z For example, wild flax occurs west to Britain and Algeria and east to the Caspian Sea, while wild barley occurs east even to Tibet. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I turn to each of the corners—the four directions—as if to bow to every single possibility around me: north, south, east, west. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The light grew dull and they could smell rain approaching from the west. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Hollywood Park had indeed mentioned $100,000, but Howard knew that Samuel Riddle would never take his horse west to race. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Farther west, San Francisco Bay glittered under a silvery haze. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Black or white, east or west, single or married, mothers or childless, women were now a fundamental part of the aeronautical research process. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z On the train going west the men of his squadron seemed very dear and desirable. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They still followed the hills along the Ystrad valley, but at midday the dwarf turned west and once more began to descend toward the plains. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z The west end of the tunnel was now filled with dust. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Blue sky and blue sea here, but off west... A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Buford had taught them to fight dismounted, the way they did out west, and the hell with this Stuart business, this glorious Murat charge. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The moon had gone down, and only a few stars still blinked in the west. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I looked west, toward the river, then north, then west again. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z As Hazel turned from the hole, the clouds in the west broke slightly and there was a sudden dazzle of watery, pale gold light. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Arawak- speaking groups migrated in from the south and west, sometimes apparently driving Tupi-speaking groups north and east. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He’d been on a long spree, robbing banks throughout the middle west. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The best thing to do, it being fall, was to head south or west for the winter, and because I didn’t want to go south I decided to go west. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I had a sudden rather terrifying impulse to creep upstairs now to the west wing and go into those rooms and see for myself. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He glanced to the west, where the light of the setting sun could be seen dimly through the trees, like the glow of a distant fire. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “She just said Haven was the first settlement and new settlements sprang up down the river as people moved west. Prentisstown was the farthest out. Farbranch was second farthest.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z One of Bobby’s first memories, when he was just a toddler, was of living in a trailer “out west.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z ‘Well, I am afraid the songs have not come west over the Mountains to the Shire,’ said Merry. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She followed the prints until the road forked, and then they went west. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z We turn our backs on the unwinding of a new day and walk west into the dark of the still starry sky. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z “Aunt Nancy could have had them in her yard out west, but not here.” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z But destruction involved all of agricultural England, from Angus in the north to Cornwall in the south, from Anglesey in the west to Norfolk in the east. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I’m represented by two regular galleries now, one east, one west. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The freerider, a small man in dented plate without device, duly appeared at the west end of the yard, but of his opponent there was no sign. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “If the steward says he’s looking north, go the way they least expect, west. That’s what Father Quinel said to do.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z There the path joined up with a larger road going west, overland, toward the capital. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “There will be no one left to help me move west—” my father whispered, and it seemed that a great load was placed on his shoulders. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Already the lead squad had crossed the river and was filing off toward the west. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Two blocks down, the Southern Pacific tracks cut diagonally across the street on their way south, and a street crossed Castroville Street from east to west. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In the west, the clouds were moving in to rain again. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z From Nogales, they went south, west, and up into the highlands, often on dirt roads, to Altar. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In the far west, in the wild waters beyond all the known currents: the place of the fleshless. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The encampment was on the west side, among some very large and tall cottonwood trees. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z “You will join me in the search and rescue. We’ll start on the south end of the zoo, and move west.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z She takes hold lightly, and we start walking west. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The road curved west, where the sun had now dipped low. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z That was to the west, north of the Shell River and east of the Medicine Bow Mountains. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z They turned west onto Main Street and continued on until reaching City Hall. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The arrows from the east slope arced and flew down the west ridge. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z We got fragments of information from time to time and pieced together that the Allies had landed at Normandy and were mounting an assault in the west. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Suppose that lawyer Bloom latched onto and publicized Kyril Montana’s previous trip to Milagro; suppose a leak developed in the capital— The helicopter was up and about, approaching from the west. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z One May afternoon, I sat near a window at the west end of the queen’s gallery, trying to decipher the tortured wit of his latest letter. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The road ahead lay to the north and slightly to the west. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z She dusted off her hands and pointed west. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I am hiding now in thick woods high up on the west ridge near the gap at the south end of the valley. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z We caught the streetcar to the park and part of the way toward Ocean Beach in the west. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I wasn't up there for long before I saw them: two figures, huddled around an open fire in a small clearing about a three-hour march to the west. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The procession approached the fair from the west, through the Midway Plaisance. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He sat in the swaying belly of a transcontinental train, snaking west from New York. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Sybil didn’t want to move west and leave her home, which everyone assumed to be Lander’s solution. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z |
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