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east

/iːst/ adverb A2
  1. Towards the east; eastwards. · a point six miles east of here
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Behold the gorgeous East was there!
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 25 · C1
In the great and busy city where the East and West are met,
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 25 · C1
The girl, after leaving her entertainer, sped swiftly cross-town until she arrived at a handsome and sedate mansion two squares to the east, facing on that avenue which is the highway of Mammon and the auxiliary gods.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 32 · C1
Its windows looked east and west; through the west one, looking out on the back yard, came a flood of mellow June sunlight; but the east one, whence you got a glimpse of the bloom white cherry-trees in the left orchard and nodding, slender birches down in the hollow by the brook, was greened over by a tangle of vines.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 4 · C1

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