There was no romantic moon shining across the water; instead we were in the hard white glare of the tropic sun.

There was a strong smell of decay, as things never meant to lie in the open air under a tropic sun disin-tegrated.

He could see hot tropic sun, green palms, lovely beaches, racetracks.

Later in the day, when the tropic sun discovered them, they would find the waiting harder.

A tropic sun was burning off the morning mists now, and he knew it was going to be a beautiful day.

But I was raw frog-belly white except for my face and hands - a full day of tropic sun could put me into hospital.

Here was no blazing down of a tropic sun upon an unshrinking sea.

For twelve days, at anchor, under an overhead tropic sun, the deck lay dry.

But morning broke clear, with a blazing tropic sun.

He shivered, still feeling the tropic sun in his bones.