Careful Words

east (n.)

east (v.)

east (adv.)

east (adj.)

An hour before the worshipp'd sun

Peered forth the golden window of the east.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Romeo and Juliet. Act i. Sc. 1.

He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks?

It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 2.

High on a throne of royal state, which far

Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind,

Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand

Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold,

Satan exalted sat, by merit rais'd

To that bad eminence.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 1.

  I shall stay him no longer than to wish him a rainy evening to read this following discourse; and that if he be an honest angler, the east wind may never blow when he goes a fishing.

Izaak Walton (1593-1683): The Complete Angler. Author's Preface.