This island, lying near to the
eastern coast of Africa, is in the sixth degree of south latitude, that is to say, four hundred and thirty geographical miles below the equator.
When they had descended and risen again, they found themselves on the
eastern brink of a steep hill.
No two marine faunas are more distinct, with hardly a fish, shell, or crab in common, than those of the
eastern and western shores of South and Central America; yet these great faunas are separated only by the narrow, but impassable, isthmus of Panama.
Tom's
Eastern polish was not popular among the young people.
My position enabled me to include in a single view both the
eastern and western extremities of the islet; and I observed a singularly-marked difference in their aspects.
These two squires were followed by two attendants, whose dark visages, white turbans, and the Oriental form of their garments, showed them to be natives of some distant
Eastern country.*
Its radiant face looked down smiling on me; it beckoned with its little hand, and floated on again, leading me as the Star led the
Eastern sages in the olden time.
She showed him an
Eastern town with flat roofs and cupolas and minarets.
My interest is keenest, perhaps, not so much in relation to known facts as to speculation upon the unknowable of the two centuries that have rolled by since human intercourse between the Western and
Eastern Hemispheres ceased--the mystery of Europe's state following the termination of the Great War--provided, of course, that the war had been terminated.
In a few minutes we turned the rib which had intercepted the view of the
eastern face from our tent platform.
The red
eastern sky, the northward blackness, the salt Dead Sea, the stony beach crawling with these foul, slow-stirring monsters, the uniform poisonous-looking green of the lichenous plants, the thin air that hurts one's lungs: all contributed to an appalling effect.
This fashionable watering-place, with its
eastern and its western stations, its piers, its groves of pines, its promenades, and its covered gardens, was, to Angel Clare, like a fairy place suddenly created by the stroke of a wand, and allowed to get a little dusty.