East wind

An east wind 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 The Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature, 3rd millennium BCE.

• 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.

See also

• Air
• Flight
• Ninlil
• North wind
• South wind
• Storm
• Tornado
• Weather
• West wind
• Wind waves
• Zephyr