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But during summer, without the weste-east zonal flow, we pass from low pressures from Northern Europe with English-like weather, to high pressures from Africa with tropical-like weather usually they get humidity passing over the Mediterranean, so it is very hot and very sultry.
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But that I dannoy the fact of wanton to weste point I could paint you to that butter (cheese it!) if you had some wash.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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A man that cometh from the londes of the weste, he goth thorewe Fraunce, Borgoyne and Lumbardye, and to
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Aboute the sea coaste towarde the weste, ther bordereth vpon them the Maces: whiche shaue their heades in the crowne, and clyppe them rounde by the sides.
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A man that cometh from the londes of the weste, he goth thorewe Fraunce, Borgoyne and Lumbardye, and to
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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( "In the weste end in the north allie and over the Galleley dour there, in a belfray called the Galleley Steple, did hing iiii goodly great bells.")
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The Ladie Isabell being departed from Spaine, hauing trauersed the mountaines Pirenees, passed by Fraunce, went ouer the Alpes, and came to Thurin, where the Duke of Sauoye had then for wyfe, a sister of the kinge of Englande, whoe was bruted to be the fairest creature of the weste partes of the world.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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There is also a naturall order, as to saye: men & women, daye and nyght, easte, and weste, rather then backewardes.
A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry
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He sayled lykewise in this tracte so farre towarde the weste, that he had the Ilande of Cuba [on] his lefte hande in maner in the same degree of langitude.
Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682 Various 1885
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Thus seyng [seeing] suche heapes of Ise before hym he was enforced to tourne [turn] his sayles and folowe the weste, so coastynge styll by the shore, that he was thereby broughte so farre into the southe by reason of the lande bendynge so much southward that it was there almoste equall in latitude with the sea cauled [called] Fretum
Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682 Various 1885
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