Such trees as grow about here all bow to the north-east, bent to that posture by the prevailing south-west winds.

A Sussex man, on the hills or south of them, lost at night, has but to ascertain the outline of a tree, and he may get his bearings.

If he cannot see so much as that he has but to feel the bark for lichen, which grows on the north east, or lee, side.
It was at Littlehampton in September, 1817, that Coleridge met Cary, the translator of Dante.

Cary was walking on the beach, reciting Homer to his son.

Up came a noticeable man with large grey eyes: "Sir, yours is a face I should know.