1 It may be that the sun was hotter, or the earth nearer the sun.
2 As I did so the shafts of the sun smote through the thunderstorm.
3 Then hesitating for a moment how to express time, I pointed to the sun.
4 It is usual to assume that the sun will go on cooling steadily in the future.
5 We emerged from the palace while the sun was still in part above the horizon.
6 Whatever the reason, the fact remains that the sun was very much hotter than we know it.
7 I nodded, pointed to the sun, and gave them such a vivid rendering of a thunderclap as startled them.
8 The earth had come to rest with one face to the sun, even as in our own time the moon faces the earth.
9 As these catastrophes occur, the sun will blaze with renewed energy; and it may be that some inner planet had suffered this fate.
10 The sun had already gone below the horizon and the west was flaming gold, touched with some horizontal bars of purple and crimson.
11 The calm of evening was upon the world as I emerged from the great hall, and the scene was lit by the warm glow of the setting sun.
12 The sun's heat is rarely strong enough to burn, even when it is focused by dewdrops, as is sometimes the case in more tropical districts.
13 At last I tore my eyes from it for a moment and saw that the hail curtain had worn threadbare, and that the sky was lightening with the promise of the sun.
14 The alternations of night and day grew slower and slower, and so did the passage of the sun across the sky, until they seemed to stretch through centuries.
15 The dim suggestion of the laboratory seemed presently to fall away from me, and I saw the sun hopping swiftly across the sky, leaping it every minute, and every minute marking a day.
16 At last, some time before I stopped, the sun, red and very large, halted motionless upon the horizon, a vast dome glowing with a dull heat, and now and then suffering a momentary extinction.
17 Presently I noted that the sun belt swayed up and down, from solstice to solstice, in a minute or less, and that consequently my pace was over a year a minute; and minute by minute the white snow flashed across the world, and vanished, and was followed by the bright, brief green of spring.
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