The men sat in the sun for hours, powerless and unsure if they would live or die.

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We sat and watched the sun go down over the Indian Ocean, feeling like real Sandgropers.

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The sun still shone in as we sat at our desks.

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At home he had a wife who was not well, not well in a manner he could do nothing about nor understand, but as he sat here now in the sun, the tense, resistant nub of flesh inside his back resolved itself for the first time in months.

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And then we sat and drifted and waited for the sun to come up.

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There was a paddock with sun on it, he said, and they sat there munching their stale sandwiches and drinking a tin of Pepsi-Cola each.

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In the Olympic stadium, you sat on a grassy bank under the searing heat of the midsummer sun.

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The couple sat in silhouette, framed by a large picture window, while the setting sun turned the background shades of yellow, orange, magenta and deep purple.

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As she shifted, heaving, between these two positions, he caught glimpses of her face, contorted, wet, until finally she sat silent a moment, chin on steering wheel, watery eyes blinking in the happy sun.

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