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    thicket


    1. But here he was almost two miles north of the Kassikan, in city no denser than the center of San Luis had been in his day, even if it looked more like a thicket in the deep jungle


    2. He was in the center of a thicket, his legs drawn up, his back against the clump of thick reeds that was one of the trunks of this clump


    3. The thicket started to quiver as he


    4. The machinery itself was concealed behind a thicket


    5. carefully through the thicket of stunted trees and gorse bushes that


    6. He could look behind him into the open forest, and turn the other way to look over the thicket and out across the fields


    7. On his way home, as he was riding through a green thicket, a hazel twig brushed against him and knocked off his hat


    8. She stopped and hid behind a thicket and listened – not


    9. passed through a thicket and could see the outer edge of


    10. “ELF!!!” his piteous cries hardly even echoed through the deep thicket of undergrowth in the near forest

    11. I looked toward the blooming lilies, the thicket roses, and marigolds


    12. The men had long scrambled through torrent and thicket under a galling fire; the sight of comrades falling acted as an incentive, and, like a series of waves, the companies surged forward, the platoons irregular, commands mixed


    13. After the flag waved over San Juan, and reaction from the excitement enabled us to realise the sad realities of victory, there seemed little glory for the silent forms that lay on the field where they had fallen; or the hundreds of wounded who were helpless in the thicket, or crawled to the rear, with blood spurting from their wounds, to the dressing-station improvised in the creek bed


    14. Travelling by moonlight and taking temporary shelter beneath a bush or thicket of ferns during the sun-cycle, Soffen made good progress


    15. Two rough-looking boars stepped out from behind a thicket and confronted her, their gaze roaming her body with barely suppressed lust


    16. Taking his direction from the stars, Darkburst limped through the remainder of the moon and half of the next sun without stopping, and when he finally collapsed beneath a thicket, unable to stagger one more step, he felt as though he was about to die


    17. Vernon quickly came out of a thicket, mounted his horse and


    18. They came in on top of a thicket, heavily overgrown with close-set young trees


    19. thorny vines led into the thicket


    20. They followed the narrow path through riverside thicket until, after about two hundred meters, Jorge stiffened, pulled off his baseball cap and slowed his pace to a relaxed stroll

    21. At the thought of a bear, and the possibility that a roaming carnivore might have a human being in its clutches, he bent slightly at the waist and cautiously entered the thicket


    22. White Fox quickly quartered the scrubby thicket, and soon enough the forest grew taller and opened up considerably


    23. the cliff, where a small thicket of densely packed trees stood not far off


    24. It knew that I didn’t have a doe tag, so it wiggled its butt out of the thicket


    25. Stopping briefly at the thicket


    26. 7 The lion is come up from his thicket, and the destroyer of the Gentiles is on his way; he is gone out from his place to


    27. I camped for the night in small thicket near the southern edge of the woods


    28. themselves free of the thorny thicket that Gloria had planted to


    29. 70 And Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw, and note, a ram was caught in a thicket by his horns; that was the ram which the Lord God had created on the Earth in the day that he made Earth and Heaven


    30. 72 And this ram was advancing to Abraham when Satan caught hold of him and entangled his horns in the thicket, that he might not advance to Abraham, in order that Abraham might kill his son

    31. 41 And he read it and stretched out his hand and he plucked it like a forest tree from the thicket, and the stick was in his hand


    32. 13 And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and note behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son


    33. caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and


    34. 70 And Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw and note a ram was caught in a thicket by his horns; that was the ram which the Lord God had created on the Earth in the day that he made Earth and Heaven


    35. 72 And this ram was advancing to Abraham when Satan caught hold of him and entangled his horns in the thicket that he might not advance to Abraham in order that Abraham might kill his son


    36. 41 And he read it and stretched out his hand and he plucked it like a forest tree from the thicket and the stick was in his hand


    37. They stopped in the thicket where the Nungs with the Prick 25 had four joss sticks glowing


    38. The VC started firing immediately as the Wolf dropped his stiletto and dove into the closest thicket trying frantically to unsling his carbine


    39. “I was watching from a thicket when the outlaw was about to shoot


    40. A sickening snap echoed about the hillside as an enormous red fist flew downwards from a thicket behind them, crushing the back of the pony Titus had ridden

    41. As they veered off the path to the left and traversed their way through a thicket a structure suddenly appeared through the whiteness


    42. Already on the verge of giving up, I spotted a sofa with lots of clothes over; I walked down and took all the clothes to the ground; and there it was, under the thicket of sweaters and coats, the gray bag that looked like a tiny speck in a haystack


    43. Taliesin heard the movements of humanoid troops beyond the thicket


    44. Jai gazed at the snarled thicket


    45. Then Abraham raised his eyes and looked, and behold, behind him a ram caught in the thicket by his horns; and Abraham went and took the ram and offered him up for a burnt offering in the place of his son


    46. balloon as it was full of thorny thicket


    47. Without comment, he indicated with a gesture that they should continue their explorations, and rising, she followed him out of the trees and into a glade, the farther end of which was bounded by a dense thicket


    48. As they stepped into the open there was a ripping crash in this thicket, and Conan, bounding aside and carrying the girl with him, narrowly saved them from something that rushed through the air and struck a tree-trunk with a thunderous impact


    49. It came from yonder thicket


    50. She hesitantly followed him into the thicket








































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    Synonyms for "thicket"

    brush brushwood coppice copse thicket underbrush brake corpse scrub

    "thicket" definitions

    a dense growth of bushes