WEST

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1. Odd, how all dying things turn to the West, the region of questions. So mourners on the Nile consigned the mummied citizen to the mercies of the West and soldiers of the recent muddy mess in upper France "went West" to join Hiawatha, King Arthur and the ecstatic nun Petronilla who saw God descending from the West in the shape of a fish-hook to lift her virgin soul into bliss.—THOMAS BEER, The Mauve Decade
   

2. Out where the handclasp's a little stronger,
   Out where the smile dwells a little longer,
   That's where the West begins.—ARTHUR CHAPMAN, Out Where the West Begins
   

3. Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.—HORACE GREELEY, Hints Toward Reform
   

4. Where the prairies, like seas where the billows have rolled,
   Are broad as the kingdoms and empires of old.—CHARLES MACKAY, To the West
   

5. Olivia: There lies your way, due west.
   Viola: Then westward-ho!—SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night
   

6. Go west, young man.—JOHN SOULE