Sun set, sun rise.
1796. The Elephant is to be seen in High-Street, from six o’clock in the morning to sun-down.—The Aurora, Phila., July 29.
1810. He heard chopping in that lot until sun-down.—The Repertory, Boston, April 13.
1817. [He] accused him of cheating him, by selling him a fellow who couldn’t see half a yard, after sun-down.—J. K. Paulding, ‘Letters from the South,’ i. 123 (N.Y.).
1820. The wind blew with uncommon violence, increasing if possible until sundown.—Mass. Spy, Jan. 26.
1840. The gentlemen followed before sundown, and all returned home before candle-light.—E. S. Thomas, ‘Reminiscences,’ ii. 14.
1843. We discovered on a bank, just about “sunup,” a full grown male Buckeye, a little in advance of his cabin, watching our progress.—B. R. Hall (‘Robert Carlton’), ‘The New Purchase,’ i. 56.
1843. We men rose before sun-up.—Id., i. 190.
1843. If you keep that course, you’ll reach the licks about sun-up!—Id., ii. 260.
1852. As the Injuns would say, we come from towards sundown.—C. H. Wiley, ‘Life in the South,’ p. 17 (Phila.).
1865. “I ’d know thet mar’s shoe ’mong a million.”… “And yere it ar’,” shouted a man with one of the lanterns, “plain as sun-up.”—Edmund Kirke, ‘John Jordon,’ Atlantic Monthly, xvi. 441 (Oct.).
1870. I had walked fourteen miles since sunup.—Letter to N.Y. Tribune, March 14 (de Vere).
1878. At midnight the soldier returned, hitched up at daylight, and, in a steaming state of military wrath, whipped his mules through the forty-three miles to Wingate by sundown.—J. H. Beadle, ‘Western Wilds,’ p. 244.
*** The word sun-up is not traceable to the Anglo-Saxon, as Longfellow supposed. [See Notes and Queries, 7 S. iii. 38.]
