Citations:east

English citations of east

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• 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress:

  And besides, there were some of them of the household that said they had been and spoke with him since he did die on the cross; and they have attested that they had it from his own lips, that he is such a lover of poor pilgrims, that the like is not to be found from the east to the west.

• 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein:

  Another storm enlightened Jura with faint flashes; and another darkened and sometimes disclosed the Mole, a peaked mountain to the east of the lake.

liturgical east

• 1971, Michael Longley, in The Review, a Magazine of Poetry and Criticism, issues 26-30, page 47:

  In a Belfast now under Direct Rule from Westminster I am sometimes tempted to take wry pleasure in what could be diagnosed as the decline of literary London as magnetic south and ecclesiastical east, to celebrate the poetic UDIs in […]

• 1994, Missa Major, in Journal for the Anthropological Study of Human Movement at New York University, volume 8, page 40:

  […] of a set of the same elements, but put in a different order, that is, liturgical east, west, north and south.

• 2014, Paul Porwoll, Against All Odds: History of Saint Andrew's Parish Church, Charleston, 1706-2013, WestBow Press (→ISBN), page 365:

  A few [Anglican churches in South Carolina, Virginia and Maryland] are oriented other than due [geographic] east—St. Paul's, St. George's, and Prince George's parish churches face northeast and St. Andrew's, southeast. […] Throughout the book I refer directionally to the altar and chancel of St. Andrew's as situated at ecclesiastical east (to avoid overcomplicating matters), not geographical or magnetic southeast. Thus, the altar is located at the east end of the church, and the gallery, at the west. The north side faces the river (beyond the subdivision behind the church), and the south side, Ashley River Road. The current main entrance to the church, at ecclesiastical west, faces the parish life building, […] The pulpit and reading desk are at ecclesiastical northeast, and the organ pipes and 1706 memorial at ecclesiastical south. At St. Andrew's, ecclesiastical north, south, east, and west correspond to geographical northeast, southwest, southeast, and northwest. Unless otherwise indicated, compass directions given in this book are ecclesiastical, not geographical, reference points.

• 2018, Anat Geva, Modernism and American Mid-20th Century Sacred Architecture, Routledge (→ISBN)

  However, in Mies' chapel, liturgical east is magnetic west.

• 2019, Sarah Hosking, "Coventry Cathedral", in Prickett Stephen Prickett, Edinburgh Companion to the Bible and the Arts, Edinburgh University Press (→ISBN), page 371:

  The tapestry by Graham Sutherland that occupies the whole wall of the liturgical east and geographic north of the cathedral is recognisable to the point of visual exhaustion. […] Spence had decided on a huge image of Christ on the [liturgical] east end, filling the entire wall and to be visible through the [liturgical] West Window (Fig. 24.2).