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  • Man's hale at sunrise, and by sunfall, he's a corpse and swollen to half again his size, with no one knowing what he died of.

    Knife of Dreams Jordan, Robert, 1948- 2005

  • "The Light willing," Bael said, his head brushing the roof of the tent, "we will wash the spears in Couladin's blood before sunfall."

    The Fires of Heaven Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1993

  • An hour before sunfall Sharif Mamud told them to hole up in a cleft in the rocks.

    The Eternal Mercenary Sadler, Barry 1980

  • It is none of your heavy racist skin-prickling, no, but a feeling of one more burden, along with the scarcity of food in the Zone, the chicken-coop, cave or basement lodgings at sunfall, the armed-occupation phobias and skulkings as bad as Holland last year, comfortable in here at least, lotos-snuggly, but disastrous out in the World of Reality she still believes in and will never give up hoping to rejoin someday.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • Perchance, like the statue of Memnon, it resounds only in the morning, when the first rays of the sunfall on it.

    A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers 1849

  • "But if I have not returned by sunfall, you might come and have a look for what's left of me.

    Running From The Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005

  • "But if I have not returned by sunfall, you might come and have a look for what's left of me.

    Running From The Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005

  • “But if I have not returned by sunfall, you might come and have a look for what’s left of me.”

    Running from the Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005

  • "But if I have not returned by sunfall, you might come and have a look for what's left of me.

    Running From The Deity Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2005

  • "Do you decide it is not too far beneath you, present yourself at Baron Timeon's palace before sunfall.

    Conan The Triumphant Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1983

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