west
/wɛst/ adjective A2- Situated or lying in or toward the west; westward.
- Of wind: from the west.
- Of or pertaining to the west; western.
- From the West; occidental.
- Designating, or situated in, the liturgical west, that part of a church which is opposite to, and farthest from, the part containing the chancel.
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If you will kill for me the Wicked Witch of the West, I will bestow upon you a great many brains, and such good brains that you will be the wisest man in all the Land of Oz.”
Napoleon is the Mahomet of the West, and is worshipped by his commonplace but ambitious followers, not only as a leader and lawgiver, but also as the personification of equality.”
Those who dwelt in the East and the West were, indeed, wicked witches; but now that you have killed one of them, there is but one Wicked Witch in all the Land of Oz—the one who lives in the West.”
“I am told,” said the third man, “that it is the same at the West.
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