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It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.

Thomas Hardy

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Thomas Hardy
Age: 87 †
Born: 1840
Born: June 2
Died: 1928
Died: January 28
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Dorchester
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Touch
Peering
Sun
Limb
Early
Addressed
Rather
Limbs
Free
Hill
Eye
Rays
Stills
Lower
Still
Hills

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