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The sun-rays are hot, yes, but as the studies say, full of vitamin D and all, so why not soak it in without buying all those pills that end up being addictive and costing a small regrettable fortune.
Untitled in Four Parts Jeffrey S. Callico 2011
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If you get the chance to visit the Dead Sea, you probably should also soak up some of those gentler sun-rays, as this has also proven to help battle off psoriasis.
Psoriasis Guru » Blog Archive » Taking Steps Toward a Natural Recovery from Psoriasis 2009
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The temple is constructed such that during the day it is always lighted up by the sun-rays!
Archive 2009-07-01 photographerno1 2009
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At noon she heard a slight rustling outside the window, and found that it was caused by an eft which had crept out of the leaves to bask in the last sun-rays that would be worth having till the following May.
The Woodlanders 2006
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The avatars were arranged in a semi-cricle on the carving and Dr. Light's sun-rays went through the crystals and hit only a few of the avatars.
THE NEW TEEN TITANS #19 DC Comics, 1982 David Campbell 2006
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The garden, long uncultivated, had multiplied its verdure; coloquintidas mounted into the branches of cassias, the asclepias was scattered over fields of roses, all kinds of vegetation formed entwinings and bowers; and here and there, as in the woods, sun-rays, descending obliquely, marked the shadow of a leaf upon the ground.
Salammbo 2003
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Man and beast would have lingered long over the pleasures of watering and refection, but I forced them onwards at nine a.m., whilst the hot sun-rays were still tempered by the cool land-breeze.
The Land of Midian 2003
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This loft had neither window nor skylight, and the gloom would have been intense, had not a few faint sun-rays struggled through the interstices of some ill-adjusted tiles.
Monsieur Lecoq �mile Gaboriau 2003
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They rode on, leaving the warmth of the early sun-rays for the cold blue shadows of the bush.
Australia Felix 2003
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Instantly the level sun-rays flooded the room; and the air that came in with them smacked of the sea.
Australia Felix 2003
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