and I sat down and wrote, In such a hand as when a field of corn Bows all its ears before the roaring East
b) The Eastern world; the regions, primarily situated in the Eastern Hemisphere, whose culture is derived from India or China.
uneasy rushes of wind went through the hall [...] East, West, North, and South, through the woods, four heavy-treading, unkempt figures crushed the high grass and cracked the branches
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