East wind

An  is a wind that originates in the east and blows west. This wind is referenced as symbolism in mythology, poetry and literature.

Quotes

 * The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.
 * Joseph Conrad, The Mirror of the Sea, (1906), ch. 28.


 * Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less, and a cleaner, better, stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.
 * Sherlock Holmes in His Last Bow, (1917), "His Last Bow," p. 980.


 * The east wind is a rain-bearing wind. [...] The east wind is a wind of prosperity, the friend of Naram-Suen.
 * Sumerian proverb, Collection IV at,.


 * He stayeth his rough wind in the day of the east wind.
 * Tanakh, Isaiah, XXVII. 8.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

 * Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 872-74.


 * The wind's in the east *  *  *  I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.
 * Charles Dickens, Bleak House, Chapter VI.