The sharqi is a wind from the south and southeast that blows in early summer and early winter.

[T]he thrush sang his mocking songs and libellous ditties about everybody, but became occasionally a little sentimental and warbled gently and bashfully some tender stanzas.

Charlemagne E. V. 1915. Mammals of the vicinities of Kyiv. [In:] Materials to investigation of fauna of the South-west of Rossija. Kessler Ornithol. soc., Kyiv, 1:26-92. (In Russian).

“Why, if you so loved and cherished the armed guard,” Captain Banning continued, “did you arrange for transfer?” “I never, sir! ... But he shanghaied me out of the armed guard pronto.”