Literary notes about eastern (AI summary)
The term “eastern” is used in literature in a variety of ways, often serving as both a geographical descriptor and a marker of cultural or symbolic identity. In historical and political narratives, as evident in works by Gibbon (e.g., [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9], [10], [11]), “eastern” demarcates regions, empires, or limits of influence. In other contexts, the word carries connotations of exoticism or difference, highlighting cultural, trade, and even religious distinctions—as seen in texts by Conrad ([12]), Jefferson ([13]), and Tagore ([14]). Moreover, the term often infuses settings with atmospheric qualities, whether evoking the mystical landscapes of ancient myths ([15], [16]) or indicating specific spatial orientations in natural descriptions ([17], [18], [19], [20]). Finally, “eastern” can even suggest a subtle blend of identity and sentiment, as in depictions of personal heritage or aesthetic allure ([21], [22], [23]).
- Reign Of Mahomet The Second, Extinction Of Eastern Empire.—Part I. Part II.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - Reign Of Mahomet The Second, Extinction Of Eastern Empire.—Part II.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - The Eastern council, after consuming four days in fierce and unavailing debate, separated without any definitive conclusion.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - While the popes established in Italy their freedom and dominion, the images, the first cause of their revolt, were restored in the Eastern empire.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - The Eastern Empire.—Part III.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - In the fifth, 85 two hundred thousand Franks were landed at the eastern mouth of the Nile.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - They returned to their provinces; but the same passions which had distracted the synod of Ephesus were diffused over the Eastern world.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - The laws of the Eastern emperors were revived by Frederic the Second.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - Fate Of The Eastern Empire In The Tenth
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - Reign Of Mahomet The Second, Extinction Of Eastern Empire.—Part IV.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - The resignation of all the eastern conquests of Trajan was the first measure of his reign.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon - At thirty-two he had one of the best commands going in the Eastern trade—and, what’s more, he thought a lot of what he had.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad - On the plateau east of the pass, we found six small villages, the most eastern—Eshratawat (Ishratabad)—being the largest (altitude 6,800 ft.).
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - You must have detected a strong accent of fear whenever the West has discussed the possibility of the rise of an Eastern race.
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore - 9 Its eastern slope is of gold, its western of silver, its south-eastern of crystal, and its north-eastern of agate.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. Werner - Meat so cooking may be seen in any eating house in Smyrna, or any Eastern town.
— from The Odyssey by Homer - These, which grow on an eastern exposure, exist at a higher elevation than any other bushes I have met with.
— from Aesop's Fables by Aesop - “And now let’s take another peek at the red-coats,” says Alan, and he led me to the north-eastern fringe of the wood.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson - The only one on the Eastern shore which lies right on the sea, it is very picturesquely situated, overlooking a wide bay with a clean beach.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific by Bronislaw Malinowski - This lake and stream are probably better stocked than any in the park, because of the proximity to the hatchery at the eastern entrance.
— from Glacier National Park [Montana] by United States. Department of the Interior - Her attitude, though perfectly natural for an Eastern woman would, in a European, have been deemed too full of coquettish straining after effect.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas and Auguste Maquet - The Eastern allusion bit me again.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë - The syllables of the word Araby were called to me through the silence in which my soul luxuriated and cast an Eastern enchantment over me.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce
