Careful Words

west (n.)

west (adv.)

west (adj.)

Her blue eyes sought the west afar,

For lovers love the western star.

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832): Lay of the Last Minstrel. Canto iii. Stanza 24.

  I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.

Henry Clay (1777-1852): Speech, 1848.

And topples round the dreary west

A looming bastion fringed with fire.

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): In Memoriam. xv. Stanza 5.

Under the yaller pines I house,

When sunshine makes 'em all sweet-scented,

An' hear among their furry boughs

The baskin' west-wind purr contented.

James Russell Lowell (1819-1891): The Biglow Papers. Second Series. No. x.