Their gauzy skirts had brushed up from the grass innumerabl… - Thomas Hardy

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Their gauzy skirts had brushed up from the grass innumerable flies and butterflies which, unable to escape, remained caged in the transparent tissue as in an aviary.

Thomas Hardy

Tess of the D’Urbervilles · January 30, 2003 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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Thomas Hardy OM (June 2 1840 – January 11 1928) was an English novelist, short story writer and poet.

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