This central division of the west front is flanked by octagon towers.
In the West End especially they have adopted a more cheerful style of architecture.
The Criterion Restaurant and Theatre stands on the site of an old inn, the White Bear, which for a century and more was one of the busiest coaching-houses in connection with the West and South-West of England.
It is doubtful whether there were any Roman buildings westof the Fleet; Fleet Street and the Strand certainly were then undreamt of, and did not come into existence till centuries after the Romans had left our island.
And from this house also seven or eight mail-coaches were despatched nightly, and from here also the royal mails used to start on the King's birthday for the West of England.
All the adjoining houses on the east side to Bartholomew Lane, and those occupying the west side of that lane almost to Lothbury, were taken down, and their places occupied by offices of the Bank.
Some of the now most respectable West End clubs originally were only gambling-hells.
It rose in Wormwood Scrubs, skirted the West London and Westminster Cemetery, and entered the Thames west of Battersea Bridge, where, in fact, there is still a creek going some distance inland.
On the west the field was bounded by a rail fence, beyond which arose a dense wood of magnolias, cotton wood and semi-tropical trees looking like a long green wall.
This bridge was designed by Sergeant William Webster of Company I, after a West Point engineer had despaired of the job.
There was only one thing that could be done and that was to destroy the Confederate Army west of the Mississippi; before he could, with safety, leave New Orleans in the rear, and advance on Port Hudson.
We had taken a large number of prisoners, three pieces of artillery and several caissons and the Confederates fearful of the gunboats Diana and the Queen of the West falling into our hands burned them.
General Emory's division of Banks' army had already moved up the west bank of the Bayou Teche, fighting its way against the fresh active troops of Dick Taylor.
The inner end of the channel has been contracted by the extension of the north-west end of the east bank west-north-westerly direction, and the spit off Oyster Rock to the southward.
When I visited this vessel I found that the heavy weather experienced during the last north-west monsoon had caused her to ride heavily, and that her decks forward had, as a consequence, strained a little.
The attached plan shows the position of the line of lights in relation to the three fathom patch and north-west extreme of the east bank.
Ours was a splendid one, a West Indiaman, almost rivalling the sea-palaces of the East India Company, and manned in the first style.
It is a most fruitful land, never visited by the famines which ravage India proper, the land west of the Bay of Bengal.
We in the West have much to learn from the artistic genius and labor of the East.
But the Crusades had brought about a new intercourse between the West and the East.
Bassein is one hundred and ninety-two miles west of Rangoon.
Make your way by Minas to the southern coast; and when you reach the department of Rocha, inquire for the little settlement of Lomas de Rocha, a village three leagues west of the lake.
Fortunately, after I left the town, a west wind continued blowing all day, bringing with it many light, flying clouds to mitigate the sun, so that I was able to cover a good number of leagues before the evening.
Next day a favourable north-west breeze sprang up to send us flying like a bird over those unlovely red billows, and in the evening we disembarked in Montevideo, the city of refuge.
Montevideo on the east and Buenos Ayres on the west side of the sea-like river were captured and lost again.
In the time of Augustus, the Roman Empire embraced all of the border of the Mediterranean, extended as far north as the North Sea, as far east as the Euphrates, as far south as the Sahara, and west to the Atlantic.
Alfred became king of the West Saxons in 871 at the age of twenty-three.
The Saracens had overrun and conquered the Holy Land, and the Christian nations of the west attempted to recover from the hands of the infidels the soil made sacred by the life and death of Christ.
James West was born on the sea, and had passed his childhood on board a lighter belonging to his father, and on which the whole family lived.
James West was looking out through his glasses to starboard at an object floating two or three miles away, and several sailors, hanging over the side, were also curiously observing it.
This coast evidently Stretched from north-west to south-east.
The course ran obliquely round the west side of the berg, so that the incline should not be too great at any point.
That same day, in the afternoon, the Paracuta departed from the coast of the Land of the Sphinx, which had lain to the west of us since the 21st of February.
When the Halbrane should again be ready for the sea, and when West should inquire what course he was to steer, would Captain Len Guy dare to reply, “To the south”?
West rushed towards the schooner, hoisted himself on board by means of a rope hanging over the bows, and gained the hatch which gives access to that part of the hold.
I did not think so, especially asWest approved of what he said.
The coast on the west reappeared--a rocky coast, without a mountainous background; the Paracuta was following its line.
West was watching closely in order to avoid collisions, and did not leave the deck even for an instant.
But his search had no result, and we had to fall back into the current from west to east.
Two or three sailors made threatening gestures undisguisedly; then arose such angry mutterings that West could not to be deaf to them.
It took West very little time to reach the point of observation, and we all waited below, how impatiently may be imagined.
I then went back to Van Buren and Clark and met a man from the West side who said he wanted twenty or twenty-five men to go over there.
Another example of the rent graft is given on the West side levee.
These also exist on the West and North sides of the city.
Then there is the place of Mrs. Mohr in Erie street, west of Rush street, where the same luxuries are in evidence, where the same vices are committed and where the range of prices eats deep into anything but a plethoric bank account.
A resort keeper who was once known as a king of the West side levee, owned a two-story building, which was used as a house of prostitution from which he derived the enormous rental of $250 a month.
Similar borderlands are found on theWest and North sides.
There is a thieves' rendezvous on the West side that is known to the police, but the members of this gang are rarely disturbed.
Chicago possesses four "redlight" districts: one on the South side, one on the West side, one on the North side and the Strand of South Chicago.
We then went up the street and were told to ask for "George"; we went west three or four blocks and I voted under the name of Gordon Seymour, 19 Bishop Court; the polling place was on Madison street in rear of a barber shop.
Its subsidy was proven clearly in the recent conviction of a Westside inspector of police for the acceptance of protection money.
That meant that they were obliged to travel thirty-two miles each day from their homes on the West side to their posts on the far South side.
I felt its dread for the first time in mid-Atlantic one day, many years ago, when we took off the crew of a Danish brig homeward bound from the West Indies.
The West Wind does not say to the seaman, "You shall be blind"; it restricts merely the range of his vision and raises the dread of land within his breast.
The narrow seas around these isles, where British admirals keep watch and ward upon the marches of the Atlantic Ocean, are subject to the turbulent sway of the West Wind.
South-west is the quarter of the heavens where he presents his darkened brow.
Only the north-west phase of that mighty display is not demoralizing to the same extent, because between the hail and sleet squalls of a north-westerly gale one can see a long way ahead.
For six weeks did the robber sheik hold the trade route of the earth, while our liege lord, the West Wind, slept profoundly like a tired Titan, or else remained lost in a mood of idle sadness known only to frank natures.
At the bidding of the West Wind there arises a great commotion in the sky above these Islands, and a great rush of waters falls upon our shores.
The south-westerly mood of the West Wind is an enemy of sleep, and even of a recumbent position, in the responsible officers of a ship.
Here in the West we have no tourneys and of travelers from the farther world not many.
He had given me the lands on the west side of the river, since I was already owner of the cottage, the Windy Hill, and the bees that he had taught me to tend and love.
That was one of the things he had learned on his long journey across the West and back again.
Abner Blythe was a lean, hard Yankee, but he had lived for years in the Middle West and had made journeys out into the prairie, although he had never gone the whole of the way to the mountains and the coast.
She missed Alan sorely, for this was their favorite road, up the valley to the west of the town, as far as the round bare hill with the single oak tree that they liked to call theirs.
Therefore, the West Wind ranks as a beneficent deity or spirit.
Brother of the great Hi-nun was the West Wind, who, with him, brought from the clouds the vivifying rain, and who finally assisted the Iroquois in the extermination of the powerful stone giants.
Finally, they told their father they were going to the far west to kill the great beasts which were harming the human race.
His residence was in the west wing, nearest to the pool and the trees, and he thought it was probably owing to the proximity of the water that his rheumatism troubled him so much in winter.
The self-styled Emporium of the West has lost her British darling, Beaver Bill, the big swell who was first cousin to the Marquis of Buckingham and own grandmother to the Emperor of China, the man with the biled shirt and low-necked shoes.
Nearly all the regular troops have been withdrawn from the West for service in the South.
A map of Europe, formerly in the author's possession, had the degrees marked as so many minutes or hours east or west of Clapton!
So they all jotted down, "Due west from cedar by river until you come to another; then turn south.
Fifteen minutes' walk due west from the other cedar beside the river.
The nearest village, and that an exceedingly small one, was five miles west of Groveland's western boundary line; and the nearest railroad town lay ten miles east of the eastern boundary.
I did not take the most direct route to reach my destination, but went by a circuitous way to a small town west of the place, and so tramped into it, coming, not from the city, but from the opposite direction.
Ten miles further south and I would come upon the little inland village of Clyde, and running due west from Clyde was a wagon road straight to the railroad town of Amora.
Entering the Place from this side we paused to admire the tremendous tower of the cathedral which here burst upon us in all its majestic grandeur, although the edifice is situated a little to the west of the Place itself.
The west window is an extremely lofty lancet of great beauty.
To us, however, the wheat fields with the poppies and corn-flowers were by far the most charming as we wandered up and down West Flanders in the month of June.
In 1722 The East and West India Company of the Austrian Netherlands was founded at Ostende, chiefly by Antwerp capitalists and merchants, who were deeply interested in the enterprise.
We were on the west side of the little structure, which on the rue Haute adjoins the ancient Halle aux Draps.
Thenceforth all of the provinces to the west and south of Antwerp--the region now comprised in the Kingdom of Belgium--remained subject to the King of Spain and his Austrian successors until the great French Revolution.
There are, as you probably know, two little provinces in the northern part of Belgium called East andWest Flanders.
To thewest of the Grande Place, and scarcely a stone's throw from Baldwin's Tower, rises the vast grey mass of Ste.
Building the West wing of the Guild Hall in the time of Guy of Dampierre, 1285.
To the west across T'ai-po Shan there was a bird-track, by which one could cross to the ridge of O-mi.
As he spoke the west wind softly blew in his face.
She watched the shadows lengthen down the slope; she felt the cool west wind sweeping by from the rear; and she wondered at low, yellow clouds sailing swiftly over her and beyond.
Disaster hung in the dark clouds, in the shade, in the humid west wind.
A red flare burned out instantaneously, flashed from the west to east, and died.
They mounted and rode west through the valley and entered the canyon.
The pale afterglow in the west darkened with the merging of twilight into night.
All tidings the west wind blew from distance and age he found deep in those dark-blue depths, and found them mysteries solved.
It is a remarkable circumstance that this animal product was brought to the West manufactured in cloth, which was only half silk; and it is said the plan was devised of unravelling the stuff, which was rewoven into cloth of entire silk.
