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Some poured bottles of water over their sun-beat heads, and others draped towels across their golf visors or baseball caps.

Heat still grips Plains, South 2011

She looked at the rose-white tenderness of Kitty Bonner's skin and remembered the sun-beat on her own face.

THE STORY OF JEES UCK 2010

Some poured bottles of water over their sun-beat heads, and others draped towels across their golf visors or baseball caps.

Heat still grips Plains, South 2011

Year before last he was in Saudi Arabia, being sent a check each month by a zany (or, if you enjoy paranoid systems, a horribly rational) Midland, Texas oil man to stay off of the U.S. rodeo circuits, where in those days the famous bucking bronco Midnight was flinging young men right and left into the sun-beat fences.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

The least office of a porch is that of affording protection against the rain-beat and the sun-beat.

Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin

She took a few swift steps, but paused and leaned against the wall of the gable for support, and, placing her hand upon the sun-beat bricks, she felt a warmth in them which there seemed to be neither in herself nor in the wide summer-air.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various

Upon the great tableland the traveller, as he pursues his sun-beat and dusty road, will constantly come upon small hamlets and even single dwellings, set near the base of some hill or in the broken ground of a ravine, or _arroyo_, where perchance a feeble stream or spring provides the inhabitants with the means of satisfying their thirst.

Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Martin [Editor] Hume 1919

North and east great barren sun-beat plains stretch their verdureless wastes, intersected by ranges of sterile hills, both extending into the neighbouring States of

Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Martin [Editor] Hume 1919

That is to say, that the seats in the shady portion -- for the structure is open to the sky -- are of one class, and command a high price of, say, ten _pesos_ each, whilst the sun-beat portion is of an inferior class, and price, say, one _peso_.

Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Martin [Editor] Hume 1919

These in some cases form fertile valleys, and, in others, sun-beat deserts, uncultivated and uninhabited.

Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Martin [Editor] Hume 1919