A tension that was so pronounced Croaker could feel its reflection, like midday sunlight off pavement.

Directly below them now, the tributary was a crystalline blue ribbon in the midday sunlight.

Oh God, she thought, blinking into bright midday sunlight.

In the bright midday sunlight, he looked like an ultimate innocent, a man for whom physical law and mathematics were the only realities.

He stopped short, squinted into the brightness of the midday sunlight cutting through the trees, peered this way and that to locate the speaker.

The grass was a thick mat under their feet, a strain so dark the green seemed almost purple in the midday sunlight.

They were silhouetted against the midday sunlight, but she could see that one wore a red checked shirt.

Outside, the bright midday sunlight cast an unforgiving glare and the scene seemed unreal, frozen.

Through the open doors we could see people strolling around in the bright midday sunlight.

They stood holding each other in the midday sunlight.