"The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death."
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Joseph Conrad, The Mirror of the Sea, (1906), ch. 26.
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