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  • For the sun is at rest, and the light from the west,

    CHAPTER VI 2010

  • Three miles up-stream, where the Yukon curved grandly in from the west,

    CHAPTER 24 2010

  • Gumbo said the worst-hit provinces are Matebeleland in the west,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • HOWEVER, it turns out to be the exact opposite when my imagination starts to run wild on the train journey back to the west,

    pangsuan Diary Entry pangsuan 2006

  • ‘Those distant and sublime mountains,’ said he secretly, as he gazed on a chain of the Pyrenees that stretched towards the west,

    The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

  • THE northern side of the vale of Llangollen is formed by certain enormous rocks called the Eglwysig rocks, which extend from east to west,

    Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

  • And when you shall have by and by become the consort of an officer of the first degree, and you shall have fallen ill from old age and returned to the west,

    Hung Lou Meng 2003

  • The moon had gone down o'er the hills of the west,

    Olban, or, the White Captive 1996

  • Describing Finland as a "bridge builder" between east and west,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • I accept this wisdom of Africa, and I say that the sovereign Kingdom of KwaZulu will be bounded by the Transvaal in the west,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

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