1 Avoid irritation more than exposure to the sun.
2 The dusk came gliding into it long before the sun had set.
3 The sun was fierce, the land seemed to glisten and drip with steam.
4 On silvery sandbanks hippos and alligators sunned themselves side by side.
5 The sun set; the dusk fell on the stream, and lights began to appear along the shore.
6 When the sun rose there was a white fog, very warm and clammy, and more blinding than the night.
7 I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom of a precipice where the sun never shines.
8 Only the gloom to the west, brooding over the upper reaches, became more somber every minute, as if angered by the approach of the sun.
9 I wanted to push on; but the manager looked grave, and told me the navigation up there was so dangerous that it would be advisable, the sun being very low already, to wait where we were till next morning.
10 The sun was low; and leaning forward side by side, they seemed to be tugging painfully uphill their two ridiculous shadows of unequal length, that trailed behind them slowly over the tall grass without bending a single blade.
11 And at last, in its curved and imperceptible fall, the sun sank low, and from glowing white changed to a dull red without rays and without heat, as if about to go out suddenly, stricken to death by the touch of that gloom brooding over a crowd of men.