Note and observe that this doth argue and portend I know not what of the west and occident of my time, and signifieth that the south and meridian of mine age is past.
Occident The countries of Europe and the Western Hemisphere.
But soon from eastern seas dark vapors rise, Sweep the vast Occident and shroud the skies, Snatch all the vision from the Hero's sight, And wrap the coast in sudden shades of night.
Doubtless Greece determined the custom for all our Occident; but none the less might the modern world grow more sensible of the value of composure.
Like a furnace, the fervid, intense occident From its hot seething levels a great glare struck up On the sick metal sky.
And, to the student of Japanese life, by far the most interesting aspect of Shinto is offered in this home worship, which, like the home worship of the antique Occident, exists in a dual form.
Among the people, indeed, what we term privacy in the Occident does not exist.
In the Occident the master expels the pupil
Of the rude and aggressive form of scepticism so common in the Occident, which is the natural reaction after sudden emancipation from superstitious belief, I find no trace among my students.
Here again the Japanese method of interior decoration differs from that of the Occident, where we see objects arrayed symmetrically on mantelpieces and elsewhere
In any case, to judge from recorded variants, the Tagalog story is an importation from the Occident.
Taken as a whole, our story seems to have been imported into the Philippines from the Occident, for the reason that no Oriental analogues of it appear to exist, while not a few are known from southern Europe
In this way, man, society and humanity will have been described, judged and analysed, without repetition, resulting in a work which will stand as the Thousand and One Nights of the Occident.
Western lands or regions; the west.