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Letter "W" » west wind
«You can always tell a Midwestern couple in Europe because they will be standing in the middle of a busy intersection looking at a wind-blown map and arguing over which way is west. European cities, with their wandering streets and undisciplined alleys, drive Midwesterners practically insane.»
Author: Bill Bryson
(Writer)
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«There's one sad truth in life I've foundWhile journeying east and west -The only folks we really woundAre those we love the best.»
«It's a warm wind, the west wind, full of birds' cries.»
«And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.»
«One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.»
«The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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«Do business best when the wind's in the west»
«I am but mad north-north-west: when the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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