Her face was very thin, and burned by the sun until much of the skin was dead and peeling, the new skin under it red and angry.

It was a bold, dark castle of pine boughs that stood like a medieval fortress, eclipsing the sun and human time.

When the sea was visible ahead of them, the relief was as great as if the sun had come out.

Singing into the mirror and his interested eyes, he was pleased to note, when he stripped for his own bath, that he still had the best part of his Italian sun tan.

Matsuo had faked death and was pitched on a stack of corpses, both the burned and the unburned, the latter decomposing rapidly under the tropical sun.

down in the broil of the sun he was becoming dried out.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

The sun was not yet high and all of them were in the small area of shade cast by the boulder.

Copernicus, by placing the sun at the center of the planetary universe, was able to reduce the number of epicycles from eighty-three to seventeen.

`` Tact '', by its very derivation, implies that its possessor keeps in touch with other people, but the author of Clericis Laicos and Unam Sanctam, the wielder of the two swords, the papal sun of which the imperial moon was but a dim reflection, the peer of Caesar and vice-regent of Christ, was so high above other human beings that he had forgotten what they were like.

The clear and searching sweep of sun on the lawns was like a climax of the year's lights.

`` Do you remember the woman in the French Alps who was all alone with her sheep one day when the sun darkened ominously??

The six expeditions to study eclipses of the sun, of which he was a member, took him to Colorado, Virginia, and California as well as to the South Pacific and to Russia.

And the sun was beginning to go down.

She was the sun, he the closest planet orbiting around her, the rest of the world existing and visible yet removed.

Presumably the same sun was shining upon little Drew also, and those who had kidnapped him.

A very casual, pleasant program -- one of those easy-going things that make Newport's afternoon programs such a relaxing delight -- was held again under sunny skies, hot sun, and a fresh breeze for an audience of at least a couple of thousands who came to Newport to hear music rather than go to the beach.

To him life was a restless boredom that began with the rising sun and ended only with sleep.

Well, what did that matter when the sun was shining and there were dreams to dream about??

Maggie started laughing, and she laughed so hard she couldn't stop, and she kept on laughing while she lugged the clothes out to the yard to hang them up while the sun was still shining.

For a brief period each year, the rays of the sun are warm enough to melt some of the snows piled a mile deep at the base of the headwalls, and then the pinnacles glisten in the daytime at high noon, and billions of gallons of water begin their slow seepage under the glaciers and across the rockstrewn hanging valleys on their long, meandering journey to the sea -- running east past the sky-carving massifs of Gurla Mandhata and Kemchenjunga, then turning south and curling down through the jungles of Assam, past the Khasi Hills, and into Bengal, past Sirinjani and Madaripur, until the hard water of the melting snows mingles with the soft drainage of fields and at length fans out to meld with the teeming salt depths of the Bay of Bengal.

The sun's most southerly position, which is attained at the northern hemisphere's winter solstice, is now called the Tropic of Capricorn, a term which also applies to the line on the Earth at which the sun is directly overhead at noon on that solstice.

Optical technology, such as the telescope, sextant and other devices that use telescopes, allowed for accurate surveying of land and the ability of mapmakers and navigators to find their latitude by measuring angles to the North Star at night or the sun at noon.

Facing the sun, before noon, the north pointer of the compass points to the left hand.

The sun has luminance of about 1. 6 × 10 < sup > 9 </ sup > cd / m < sup > 2 </ sup > at noon.

Pytheas took the altitude of the sun at Massalia at noon on the longest day of the year and found that the tangent was the proportion of 120 ( the length of the gnōmōn ) to 1 / 5 less than 42 ( the length of the shadow ).

At noon on the longest day the plane of longitude passing through Marseilles is exactly on edge to the sun.

At noon on the winter solstice the sun stands at 9 cubits and the longest day on the summer solstice is 16 hours at the baseline through Celtica.

Common uses of the sextant include sighting the sun at solar noon and sighting Polaris at night, to find one's latitude ( in northern latitudes ).

Solar time is measured by the apparent diurnal motion of the sun, and local noon in solar time is the moment when the sun is at its highest point in the sky ( exactly due south or north depending on the observer's latitude and the season ).

So in observing the sun from earth, the solar hour angle is an expression of time, expressed in angular measurement, usually degrees, from the solar noon.

Determining latitude was relatively easy in that it could be found from the altitude of the sun at noon with the aid of a table giving the sun's declination for the day.

In equatorial regions at less than 23. 5 degrees, the position of the sun at solar noon will oscillate from north to south and back again during the year.

The 47-degree difference in the altitude of the sun at solar noon between winter and summer forms the basis of passive solar design.

The second one, still during that long battle of Joshua, must have been the eclipse of the sun at noon, in the middle of the sky.

The next day the narrator sees him crawling along the road in the noon sun, with his hat off and gone mad.

They typically consist of a horizontal sundial, which has in addition to a gnomon a suitably mounted lens, set up to focus the rays of the sun at exactly noon on the firing pan of a miniature cannon loaded with gunpowder ( but no ball ).

Other austerities include meditation in seated or standing posture near river banks in the cold wind or meditation atop hills and mountains, especially at noon when the sun is at its fiercest.

Precious stones, said to be as bright as the noon sun, provided light, and God ensured that food remained fresh.

It was enough to know that at noon the sun was directly above the head.

In some works, his strength waxes and wanes with the sun ; in the most common form of this motif, his might triples by noon, but fades as the sun sets.

To rectify the sphere for use, first slacken the screw r in the upright stem R, and taking hold of the arm Q, move it up or down until the given degree of latitude for any place be at the side of the stem R ; and then the axis of the sphere will be properly elevated, so as to stand parallel to the axis of the world, if the machine be set north and south by a small compass: this done, count the latitude from the north pole, upon the celestial meridian L, down towards the north notch of the horizon, and set the horizon to that latitude ; then, turn the nut b until the sun Y comes to the given day of the year in the ecliptic, and the sun will be at its proper place for that day: find the place of the moon's ascending node, and also the place of the moon, by an Ephemeris, and set them right accordingly: lastly, turn the winch W, until either the sun comes to the meridian L, or until the meridian comes to the sun ( according as you want the sphere or earth to move ) and set the hour-index to the XII, marked noon, and the whole machine will be rectified.