Irene Bloch went, if possible, whiter than usual, a drift of snow beneath Enid's cruel sun.

Would some of your people take him up, And bear him hence out of this cruel sun?

Even as he blinked against the searing brightness of a cruel sun, a wind rose and bore the sand with it.

The cruel sun showed every scar and scratch on the bar top and revealed the dust on the clay grog bottles behind the counter.

For days, elephants and slaves had toiled in the cruel sun, hauling the endless chains of buckets up the face of the cliff.

Dark skin in Cambodia is often associated with rural people, who spend their lives under the cruel sun.

I see him now come pacing towards me in the cruel sun, solitary, a figure out of Hoffmann.

The endless white road winding, the inhuman landscape of Aragon, cruel sun and weariness, dust, weariness to the heart, and doubt.

Where was she as the cruel sun rose into the sky?

The name Lā hainā means "cruel sun" in the Hawaiian language, describing the sunny dry climate.