“The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.”

—  Joseph Conrad , book The Mirror of the Sea

Source: The Mirror of the Sea (1906), Ch. 28

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