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Sun-set; if _Lean_, deprive him not of the least strength and Comfort of the _Sun_ you can devise.
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Feed them early in the Morning at Sun-rising, and at Sun-set in the Evening.
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Sun-set a Body of Troops marched up and mounted the Breach undiscovered, and quietly took Possession of the Castle, the Enemy flying out at the Gate so soon as they saw the Troops on the Ramparts, and heard their Huzza's.
An Account of the expedition to Carthagena, with explanatory notes and observations Charles Knowles
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And you will have sport from the Dawning, till the Sun is about an hour high; but no longer; and from Sun-set till Twilight; these being their feeding times.
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I wandered in the Woods till Sun-set, and then apprehending Danger from wild Beasts, I climb'd a tall Tree, where I sat, tho 'I could not sleep, till Morning.
A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country Captain Samuel Brunt
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But Don Andreas sent out scouts "in Search of them," who returned "about an Hour before Sun-set," with "some of their Number," and a message that the rest would join company in the morning.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922
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I was reply'd to by Claudius Marcellinus, who was Advocate for Martianus, and then the House adjourned to the Day following, since no further Proceeding could the begin, without the Sun-set coming upon it.
Pliny's Epistles in Ten Books: Volume 1, Books 1-6 Pliny 1723
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Let him but set open his Windows at Sun-set, and shut them again before the Twilight be quite shut in, and all the Musketaes in the Room, will go out at the Windows, and leave the Room clear.
The History and Present State of Virginia, in Four Parts 1722
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It was within half an Hour of Sun-set when we entred the first Wood; and a little after Sun-set, when we came into the Plain.
The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner 1719
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Still hopes your Sun-set, while he views your Noon,
Two Poems Against Pope One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope and the Blatant Beast Anonymous 1717
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