Citations:west


 * 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.
 * 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:
 * Down in the west the setting sun had left a streak of fiery red, which glared upon the desolation for an instant, like a sullen eye, and frowning lower, lower, lower yet, was lost in the thick gloom of darkest night.

liturgical west

 * 1997, John Haskell, John Callanan, Sydney Architecture, UNSW Press (ISBN 9780868403915)
 * In two respects, however, the cathedral [of St. Mary's in Sydney, Australia] differs from English traditions: it is oriented north-south, not east-west; and its main entry is from the south (liturgical west) between the two towers, in the French manner.
 * 2000, Mark L. MacDonald, The Chant of Life: Liturgical Studies Four, Church Publishing, Inc. (ISBN 9780898692990), page 98:
 * The seating for honored persons (clergy) is at the liturgical west, opposite the entrance and lectern.
 * 2007, Patrick Malloy, Celebrating the Eucharist: A Practical Ceremonial Guide for Clergy and Other Liturgical Ministers, Church Publishing, Inc. (ISBN 9780898698077), page 155:
 * In most worship spaces, this will put the thurifer and gospeller facing liturgical west, book bearer facing liturgical east (or the book on the reading desk), and the torch bearers turned inward, facing the book.
 * 2008, Philip Temple, Northern Clerkenwell and Pentonville, Paul Mellon Ctr for Studies (ISBN 9780300139372), page 356:
 * Interior in 1925, (left) looking north to chancel and (right) looking south (to liturgical west end) It was on account of this connection that St James&#39;s became the clowns &#39;church&#39;, an annual clowns&#39; service being held there ...
 * 2011, Michael Attridge, Catherine E. Clifford, Gilles Routhier, Vatican II: Expériences canadiennes – Canadian experiences, University of Ottawa Press (ISBN 9782760319523), page 145:
 * the high church had liked its clergy to preside at the Eucharist in an ad orientem position; the low church advocated what was called the north end position; but the Liturgical Movement asked the priest to take a basilical position, facing liturgical west, and now both Anglican factions could agree on this third position without either of them losing face.
 * 2017, Stephen Kite, Building Ruskin's Italy: Watching Architecture, Routledge (ISBN 9781351572927), page 48:
 * as in the mosaic of the ascension on San Frediano&#39;s liturgical west (geographically east) façade.