How To Use Thickly In A Sentence
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Shrugging, he pushed open the door to the bar and almost choked on the smoke that hung thickly in the air.
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Grill the bread on both sides and spread the top thickly with mustard.
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Each bit has a home, like paint spread thickly across a canvas instead of in globs dropped here and there.
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Masses of pink light up shady places where the false dragonhead grows, and the jewel weeds are thickly hung with pendant blossoms of orange and pale yellow.
Some Summer Days in Iowa
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It has to be cut thickly (making individual panels rather heavy) and is prone to warping and damage by woodworm.
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‘No,’ she said very slowly, rolling the denial on her tongue thickly.
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City officials plan to enhance the pine canopy by thinning out thickly planted forests to give older longleaf pines more room to spread their crowns.
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The cheese was sliced thickly.
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We were visiting a small , thickly walled and lovely town with straggling outskirt.
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It seemed to possess a double quantity of fins, -- lunated along their outer margins, and set thickly over its body, so as to give it a bristling aspect.
The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea
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As we chugged along the vivid green Wuyang River towards Dragon King Gorge, thickly forested crags and pinnacles of rock rose high above.
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The chèvre, mushroom and zucchini sandwich on thickly sliced bread didn't skimp on the goat cheese, but it was a bit too pungent to pair with the root soup.
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Five hydrospire pores are also big, elliptical or thickly lentoid.
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He knows what the moss looks like, how high it grows around the base of an oak and how thickly it will cling to a sycamore.
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In my former cases the pustule produced by the insertion of the virus was more like one of those which are so thickly spread over the body in a bad kind of confluent smallpox.
On Vaccination Against Smallpox
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thickly timbered ridges clothed with loblolly pine and holly
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After this the whole premises should be fumigated with sulphur or formaldehyde, and then the stable left open for a week to be aired and dried, after which all surfaces should be freshly and thickly kalsomined.
The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)
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Now you are in the bailey and exposed to arrow fire from the thickly walled structures within.
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Apply the paint thickly in even strokes.
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He slapped the paint thickly on the wall.
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For two or three years I do not remember to have seen it, or the seedlings, without flowers; its pretty, dwarf, rue-like foliage grew so thickly that it threatened to kill the edging of gentianella and such things as _Polemonium variegatum_, the double cuckoo-flower, and the little _Armeria setacea_; it also filled the walks, and its long wiry roots have been eradicated with difficulty.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
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Beyond the barricade was a little meadow, shoulder deep in a curious grass with bristly heads which grew very thickly.
The Iron Star — and what It saw on Its Journey through the Ages
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It was thickly covered with milk chocolate, which increased the sickly sweetness of the ice-cream to a nauseous intensity.
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The smell of stagnant, rotting waters hung so thickly that the air was nearly unbreathable.
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If tourists visit the garden in summer, they will be astonished by the pleasing green and red of thickly dotted lotuses.
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It uses fresh penci pasta, a thickly cut eggless pasta, sauced with sausage, lemon and nutmeg.
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In thickly settled nations, with few dormant resources, a long war usually produces industrial disorganization and financial exhaustion.
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Roll out the bread lightly with a rolling pin after cutting off the crusts and spread thickly with the cheese filling.
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Again, as Mr. Darwin says, "In the embryos of all air-breathing vertebrates, certain glands, called the corpora Wolffiana, correspond with and act like the kidneys of mature fishes;" and during the sixth month the whole body is covered very thickly with wool-like hair -- even the forehead and ears being closely coated; but it is, as Mr. Darwin observes, "a significant fact that the palms of the hands and the soles of the feet are quite naked, like the inferior surfaces of all four extremities in most of the lower animals," including monkeys.
The Scientific Evidences of Organic Evolution
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Some of the fibres are thickly covered with extremely minute spicula, occasionally aggregated into little tuffs; and hence they have a hairy appearance.
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Eggs three or four, rosy or faint purplish white, thickly sprinkled with specks and spots of darker rufescent purple or claret colour.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
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The thickly sliced boletus should go in the pan within a minute or two of the trout being done so they stay almost crunchy.
Fool’s Paradise
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He uses a brush, a palette knife or his fingers to daub the oil pigments on to the canvas as thickly as mashed potato.
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Thou wert feverish and impatient this morning until thou wert fairly in it, with its mud and water plashing around thee; and now thou art here, with the trees crowding upon us so thickly that the sun looks not under them once in the whole year, thou creepest like a terapin upon thy journey, as if thou didst greatly fear thou wouldst too quickly get through it; a barren fear, this, for we see but the beginning: the bog deepens, and the day grows darker as we go.
The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. In Two Volumes. Vol. I
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Apply the paint thickly in even strokes.
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The English troops, mainly archers and foot soldiers, dug in behind wooden stakes between thickly wooded ground.
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A black-haired, thickly-bearded man in the middle of the soldiers with his armour hanging over a pot belly stepped forward, thumbs hooked through his sword belt.
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Place the meringue on a cake stand and spread the cream thickly over the top, before piling on the drained cherries.
Times, Sunday Times
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Myrtles and leatherwoods thickly adorn the river bank and the large grass tree (richea pandanifolia) is also present.
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Spread large rolls thinly with horseradish and thickly with mayonnaise, then pile on the beef, clamp together and eat at once - messily.
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Snow still lay thickly over the forest, but had been cleared from the cobbled road which weaved its way down through the trees.
The Crossing-Place
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He at once wrote Gutel a missive so thickly interlarded with quotations from the Song of Solomon, from Goethe, Petofi, Heine, and Chateaubriand, that when Kalimann read the billet-doux to the blushing girl her head was quite turned.
Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1
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On a smaller plate set before Frankie was a sandwich made with thickly sliced bread, best butter and strawberry jam.
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I rounded a bend where the trees and brush grew thickly.
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The forest thinned as branches parted; a few hamlets dotted grassy slopes below and thickly-wooded hills reared above.
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Rice, followed-up by Stephanie Meyer, “… modernized and domesticated the vampire, ripping away the traditional narrative from the black-caped, thickly Euro-accented, terror guy you run from, to the handsome, seductive bad-boy next door you want to sleep with,” says Thompson.
VAMPIRES- WHY HERE, WHY NOW? | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews
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Frequent ant-hills gave an appearance of habitation to a desert still covered with the mosques and tombs of old Adel; and the shape of the country had gradually changed, basins and broad slopes now replacing the thickly crowded conoid peaks of the lower regions.
First footsteps in East Africa
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Although the young are thickly covered with yellowish-brown woolly hair, the mountain anoa adults tend to have curly hair, while lowland anoa have straight hair or are hairless.
6 Wild Banteng
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Here, too, lie the cemeteries: the Jewish, fronting the main road, with a decent enclosure; that of the Christians, framed in a wire fence and containing a few wooden crosses, imitation broken columns and tinsel wreaths; Arab tombs, scattered over a large undefined tract of brown earth, and clustering thickly about some white-domed maraboutic monument, whose saintly relics are desirable companionship for the humbler dead.
Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
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If you take the word of those alongshore sharks against mine — 'the other began thickly.
Bunches of Knuckles
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The _first glume_ is ovate-oblong, thickly coriaceous, smooth at the back with a truncate base and a transverse ridge at the base inside, many-nerved, with very narrow inflexed margins and very narrow wings at the top, the apex is obtuse or emarginate.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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rockets were much too fractious to be tested near thickly populated areas
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The smell of stagnant, rotting waters hung so thickly that the air was nearly unbreathable.
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A Gothic castle almost takes on the role of a central character: 'The lofty battlements, thickly enwreathed with ivy, were half demolished, and become the residence of birds of prey.
Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823)
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The middle regions of the beach are surf-beaten, but the sheltered southern corner, at low tide, reveals fine sands thickly populated with razor shells, tellins, surf clams and sand mason worms.
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The furniture was thickly coated with dust.
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On a smaller plate set before Frankie was a sandwich made with thickly sliced bread, best butter and strawberry jam.
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A group of roistering guys and gals grinned beerily over a table thickly covered with bottles and glasses.
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Thickly slice the steaks and serve spiced-side up, with a drizzle of red wine sauce.
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Slice the chorizo sausages thickly, on the diagonal.
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The head hooked from a thickly muscled, scaly neek and ran into a massive black chest shot through with lines of iridescent purple and azure.
A Corridor in the Asylum
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For two or three years I do not remember to have seen it, or the seedlings, without flowers; its pretty, dwarf, rue-like foliage grew so thickly that it threatened to kill the edging of gentianella and such things as _Polemonium variegatum_, the double cuckoo-flower, and the little _Armeria setacea_; it also filled the walks, and its long wiry roots have been eradicated with difficulty.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
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The "Buyapart," valued at twenty-five cents, is a piece of cloth four inches square, covered thickly over with the small shells called cowries, sewed on.
Journal of an African Cruiser
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Thorax thickly clothed with fawn-coloured hairs; body above, shining ochrey inclined to orange; short tuft at the end of the body; underside lateritious; upper surface of first pair of wings fawn, with a reddish hue, densely covered with hair-like scales, with shorter and somewhat square scales beneath, the scales over the nervures, being reddish; an indistinct line of seven obscure spots still more indistinctly connected by a zigzag reddish line, runs across the wing nearly parallel to its apical margin, and nearer the tip of the wing than the middle.
Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
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If the meizoseismal area had been a thickly populated one, the evidence of ruined and damaged houses would have provided materials for the construction of isoseismal lines surrounding the two epicentres.
A Study of Recent Earthquakes
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The remains of his shirt had been removed to get at the wound, which was thickly bound in white bandages.
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In general, the spaces between the lagoons and the river are thickly wooded (the trees consisting principally of the blue gum of a large growth), and are overgrown with vines of various descriptions, and the fern, the peppermint, flax plant, and currajong.
A Source Book of Australian History
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Snow still lay thickly over the forest, but had been cleared from the cobbled road which weaved its way down through the trees.
The Crossing-Place
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In Sunbury, and at intervals along the road, were dead bodies lying in contorted attitudes, horses as well as men, overturned carts and luggage, all covered thickly with black dust.
The War of The Worlds by H. G. Wells: Part 5 | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News
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Slice the meat thickly.
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Crush the avocado with the lemon juice, salt and pepper, and spread thickly on the bread.
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Dating to around 1760-75, many bear delicate but thickly applied ‘high-relief’ polychrome enamelled flowers, exotic birds, fruit, chinoiseries and gilt-scrolled borders characteristic of contemporary Chelsea porcelain.
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The coins clink thickly in the bottom of the charitable chapeau.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873
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The conch is thickly discoidal, with broadly convex sides and rounded venter with rounded ventral shoulders.
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Our tent was pitched in a little glade, which was but a few yards across, and carpeted thickly with the red kinnikinic berries, in their season beloved of bears, and from the leaves of which bush the Indians make a substitute for tobacco.
The Big-Horn Sheep
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This painting presents another strange, thickly painted beastie, this one a squidlike creature that makes its way through a thinly painted umber field toward ribbons of rainbowlike color.
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On the plains between and adjacent to the Ganges and the Jumna, for two thousand years herds of black-buck, or sasin antelope, have roamed over cultivated fields so thickly garnished with human beings that to-day the rifle-shooting sportsman stands in hourly peril of bagging a five-hundred-rupee native every time he fires at an antelope.
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation
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The ground was thickly carpeted with pine needles.
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On either side the white path was a grassy margin thickly woven with pink convolvuli.
The Trespasser
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But never before had he experienced cultural loss in such a visceral way as he did on the afternoon of Friday, July 20, when his jeep crested the thickly forested Franconian Hills and he saw what remained of Nürnberg.
HITLER’S HOLY RELICS
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Out of the blankness that floated thickly through my mind, one thing bluntly shone its way through.
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The chair and sofa were thickly padded, covered with real Ahlbetera leather, the furniture made of real wood.
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The woman lost no time in seeking for a roomy walnut-shell, which she lined thickly with white satin, and on it she placed the mattress, with the child, whom she called Maia, upon it.
The Olive Fairy Book
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But it is not quite right to call the tufts yellow: they are green, thickly powdered with the minute golden florets.
A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs
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On the 12th May one nest contained three eggs of a rosy-white, thickly irrorated and blotched with purple or deep claret colour, and at the larger end confluently stained with dull purple, appearing as if beneath the shell.
The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
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The steinbock and the chamois, which live in the highest mountains, are still found, but other breeds, such as the argalis, which inhabited the foot hills and the high table lands, have disappeared, as Europe has become more thickly populated.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898
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Smoke hung thickly all around, like a dense fog, only more suffocating.
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The smaller stones soon rattled, and without considering that we had again an interval of cessation before us, and only too much rejoiced to have outstood the danger, we rushed down and reached the foot of the hill together with the drizzling ashes, which pretty thickly covered our heads and shoulders ....
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 8 Italy and Greece, Part Two
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I rounded a bend where the trees and brush grew thickly.
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It is said there are water plants grow so thickly upon the river further upstream, that no boat can navigate through it.
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Broad rivers -- the Ob ', the Irtysh, the Yenisey, and the Lena, for example -- wend their way across the tundra toward the Arctic Ocean, but by October they freeze over so thickly that they can be used as truckways until spring.
This Side of Ultima Thule
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This highly intelligent utilitarian breed is distinguished by two coat types, either curly or wavy; an impressive head of considerable breadth and well proportioned mass; a ruggedly built, well-knit body; and a powerful, thickly based tail, carried gallantly or used purposefully as a rudder.
Portuguese Water Dog: Obamas' Puppy
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Gold bracelets and anklets, and rings on his fingers and toes thickly studded with gems completed the picture of barbaric splendour, ‘their piece exceeding that of a fine city’.
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The sides of the valley were here nearly precipitous; but, as frequently happens with stratified rocks, small ledges projected, which were thickly covered by wild bananas, liliaceous plants, and other luxuriant productions of the tropics.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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Spread copies of this week's papers on serving counter and butter thickly on slices of bread.
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Back then, perhaps, the trees grew more thickly in the altitudes, unhewn and unfired.
Virginity
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A dark colour applied thickly over lighter and brighter ones can be very exciting and dramatic.
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The atmosphere of the wiharas and temples is rendered oppressive with the perfume of champac and jessamine, and the shrine of the deity, the pedestals of his image, and the steps leading to the temple are strewn thickly with blossoms of the nagaha and the lotus.
Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2)
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The English troops, mainly archers and foot soldiers, dug in behind wooden stakes between thickly wooded ground.
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Back on the path, he finds the cryptomerias crowding about him ever more thickly.
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The ground was thickly carpeted with red and yellow leaves, little columns of smoke rising at intervals where people were burning weeds or rotten wood in the fields; and just enough purple mist to poetize everything.
Chateau and Country Life in France
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A word of warning however: you will need to tune in your hearing for the witty, but thickly-accented dialogue.
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There were blackberry bushes thickly massed in unfrequented corners of the park, and he tried them, copying the style of the adult foxes.
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Spread copies of this week's papers on serving counter and butter thickly on slices of bread.
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In more thickly sedimented slope and basin blocks, this fault and parallel faults to the south are marked by ENE alignments of elongate and shear mud diapirs or continuous, narrow mud walls.
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Curator Joan Murray once called it a "magnificent failure" - the choppy, thickly coloured brush strokes of the water, the flat tree and hills, the clouds billowing against, not with, the wind - but don't discount the word "magnificent.
Thestar.com - Home Page
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The conch is thickly discoidal, with broadly convex sides and rounded venter with rounded ventral shoulders.
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The woman translating in our earphones was so thickly Russian-accented and unable to keep up as to make a translator of the translator strongly desiderated.
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At the latter end of last season, as was formerly noticed, the beacon was painted white, and from the bleaching of the weather and the sprays of the sea the upper parts were kept clean; but within the range of the tide the principal beams were observed to be thickly coated with a green stuff, the conferva of botanists.
Records of a Family of Engineers
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Chase beamed at his old shipmate, then went to the quarterdeck, which was thickly crowded with officers who politely removed their hats as Chase and Sharpe were ushered aft past the great wheel and under the poop to the Admiral's quarters, which were guarded by a single Marine in a short red jacket crossed by a pair of pipe-clayed belts.
Sharpe's Trafalgar
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You ought to get out of that stagnant pond of yours, and come where the natatory medium is fresh, clean, and thickly peopled with suckers, and a new run of 'em coming on right soon.
Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic
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My guess is that the stain is too thickly applied and has skinned over.
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The hair is turned inwards, and the interior of the bag is thickly besmeared with asphaltum or mineral tar, which renders the vessel indeed perfectly sound, but imparts an abominable flavour to the wine, and even adds to its acescence.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 392, October 3, 1829
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Whether Nixon was entirely serious or merely trying to unsettle Kissinger is not altogether clear and, in his thickly stentorian voice, Kissinger replied: ‘That, I think, would just be too much.’
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It smells good but doesn't lather thickly.
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The High Priestess sat regally in a thickly cushioned, red velvet seat.
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After applying a primer of red, the decorative figures were scored precisely around each element and thickly painted.
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We were then in a grassy basin -- another _cuvette_ with two central tufts of thickly packed trees.
Across Unknown South America
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William Hooker found the buckbean very plentiful in Iceland, and says that where it occurs it is of great use to travellers over the morasses, for they are aware that the thickly entangled roots make a safe bed under the soft morass for them to pass over.
Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children
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The lofty battlements, thickly enwreathed with ivy, were half demolished, and become the residence of birds of prey.
The Romance of the Forest
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He had carried his chair to a corner of the room, and there he sat, his face half-hidden, resting upon his breast, his knee drawn up and pressed tightly by his clasped hands -- those very hands, small and marble-white, forming a ghastful contrast to the raven hair that fell thickly on his back.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843
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Thorax: the anterior margin slightly rounded with the lateral angles very acute; the femora very thickly incrassate in the middle; the apex of the tibiæ ferruginous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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With a solid cast, respected director and the well-publicised loan of 30 Marks & Spencer suits for the cast during the run, hamminess, togas and thickly applied make-up have no place in this production.
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The dish is filled with layers of browned lamb or mutton chops and layers of onions and thickly sliced potatoes.
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I was wrapped thickly in a black himation and I was sick with grief.
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Modern primatologists point out that an alpha animal, contrary to its reputation as solitary lord of all it surveys, is thickly enmeshed in a social webbing, dependent on the reciprocities of group life.
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She flung wild glances, like those of an entrapped animal, up and down the big whitewashed room that panted with heat and that was thickly humid with the steam that sizzled from the damp cloth under the irons of the many ironers.
CHAPTER I
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Hart, a man hung on an enormous frame, with thickly waved brown hair although he often wears a periwig, has a booming voice and says he is the great nephew of Shakespeare—but then everybody says that.
Exit the Actress
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Miklós Rózsa's score, with its creepy Theramin-style theme, is way too insistent, piling the dramatic effects on so thickly that it becomes distracting.
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These are in large warmers and again the meat had been carved thickly, none of this wafer thin slices swimming in gravy that is sometimes served up as a British roast dinner.
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It was a high, clear Himalayan morning, and we were corkscrewing our way up from the banks of the river, up the steep sides of a narrow, thickly wooded valley.
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The _third glume_ is thickly coriaceous, brownish, shining, minutely striolate, margins roundly incurved throughout its length, paleate; the _palea_ is similar to the glume in structure and colour, margins strongly inflexed and with two broad membranous auricles almost overlapping just below the middle.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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His name attaches to the Breock Downs, a high-lying moorland rising to about 700 feet, thickly strewn with prehistoric remains.
The Cornwall Coast
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You mount the stairs and pass through the long corridor, the walls of which are thickly lined with photographs of the family and an impressive display of weapons.
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I think there's a tendency in American art to really condescend to children, and make sure that the message is laid on thickly.
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Weeds grow thickly in rich soil.
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Within a hundred yards the banks are thickly wooded with tall mulga and lancewood scrub; but to the east is open gum forest, splendidly grassed.
The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
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He heard Æsop say, dryly, "Some men of Italy are fools," and might perchance have flamed again, to his misluck, but that Staupitz, breathing thickly in his ear, whispered: "Idiot, he mocks a Mantuan.
The Duke's Motto A Melodrama
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She laid the paint on thickly.
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Peel off the skins and thickly slice the potatoes.
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In consequence of these operations the King decided to move to Commercy, which place we reached by carriage, traveling on a broad macadamized road lined on both sides with poplar-trees, and our course leading through a most beautiful country thickly dotted with prosperous-looking villages.
She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
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The corn was already ripening and the vines in full leaf, with bunches of grapes hanging thickly.
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Even when Jon-Tom was not strumming his duar, swarms of almost-theres were clustering thickly around the little party of travelers.
A Corridor in the Asylum
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She speaks haltingly in a soft, thickly accented voice (she emigrated from Israel in 1984).
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Teucrian army gathers thickly, still grasping shield and spear.
The Aeneid of Virgil
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Calamites growing thickly together in the coal-forests, for we find their remains everywhere in the clay, so we can easily picture to ourselves how the dense jungle formed by these plants would fringe the coal-swamp, as the present plants do the Great
The Fairy-Land of Science
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One of the two thickly muscled guards who had been duped by Simna stepped forward, holding his heavy sword threateningly out in front of him.
Into the Thinking Kingdoms
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He was in a blue uniform coat that was thickly encrusted with gold loops and edged with black astrakhan fur.
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Take the footpath beside the Esk, here thickly wooded with birch and ash, for a hundred yards or so upstream.
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Each ring is saturated with different quantities of blood, some thickly puddled and others so faint that the dried liquid clings to the outer circumferences.
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Weeds grow thickly in rich soil.
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There are several loops which take you down into the steep, thickly wooded ‘combes’ beneath the hills.
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At times the cleft narrowed so much that we could scarce squeeze up it; at others it expanded into great drusy cavities, studded with prickly crystals or thickly beset with dull, shining fungoid pimples.
First Men in the Moon
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Trim the brown cap mushrooms and thickly slice.
Times, Sunday Times
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By the time we had traversed the thickly forested coastal plain it was dark, and nothing could be seen through the windows except the black night.
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A forest fire in a thickly treed area of Cypress Bowl in West Vancouver broke out on July 1.
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The fog swirled thickly around us.
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Areas sown too thickly go mouldy and die off.
Times, Sunday Times
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The final struggle for the supremacy in the Soudan would take place on the great plain of Kerrere, to the north of Omdurman; and, pointing to the desert outside Kassala, which is strewn with large white stones, he said: “After this battle has been fought, the plain of El Kerrere will be strewn with human skulls as thickly as it is now covered with stones.”
The Adventure of Living
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Thickly spread the egg mayonnaise mixture onto the buttered bread and sprinkle with the cress.
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With oil paints applied thickly, Ravi Varma created lustrous, impasted jewellery, brocaded textures, and subtle shades of complexions.
LearnHub Activities
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spread 1/4 lb softened margarine or cooking fat fairly thickly all over the surface
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It is important to ensure that the dressing is rubbed well into the fabric, and not allowed to remain thickly on the surface.
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There is nothing wrong with a good old Victoria sponge, thickly spread with butter icing and home-made jam, and dusted with icing sugar.
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Kain thanked the man and followed the directions, coming to a thickly built stone building with buttresses and smaller towers extending several stories above where the main building ended.
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In this season, whenever Antonina crossed the park on her way to the trolley stop, church or market, she walked through corridors thickly scented by linden flowers and abuzz with half-truths -- in local slang, lipa also meant white lies.
‘The Zookeeper’s Wife’
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The audience was oblivious to the comings and goings of princes and presidents in the thickly carpeted lounge upstairs.
Times, Sunday Times
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`Let's drink to anti-ice," I said, perhaps a little thickly, `and its progeny, the various wonders of the Age!
ANTI-ICE
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It was thickly covered with a mass of corals, actiniae, and other productions of the ocean, of vast dimensions, of every possible form, and of the most brilliant colours.
In the Eastern Seas
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Rain thudded on the roof of the canon's cottage, but the thickly woven thatching kept the room dry, except for one or two small places in the corners where water first pooled and then trickled in slow fat drops to the beaten earth floor.
Excerpt: Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross
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The _leaf-blade_ is narrow, rigid, thickly coriaceous, concavo-convex tapering from the base to the tip, spreading and recurved, 4 to 6 inches long.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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Slice the potatoes thickly, and put half of them in the base of a deep gratin dish.
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Same with that called the balsam fir of Canada. it grows here to considerable Size, being from 21/2 to 4 feet in diameeter and rises to the hight of 100 or 120 feet. it's Stem is Simple branching assending and proliferous -. it's leaves are cessile, acerose, 1/8 of an inch in length and 1/16 of an inch in width, thickly scattered on all Sides of the twigs as far as the groth of four proceeding years, and respects the three undersides only, the upper Side being neglected and the under
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
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Home-made jam is great to give as a present - even better to keep, to be dolloped liberally on to scones and toast or spread thickly into a plain sponge cake.
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A flat or large pot is filled with soil and the seed sprinkled thickly over the top.
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Thickly slice the duck and serve it on the parsnip purée, scattered with a little extra thyme.
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Abdomen shining and rather finely punctured; the basal segment narrow and campanulate; the margins of the segments thickly fringed with silvery-white hair; the cheeks, sides of the thorax, and beneath the legs and abdomen with scattered long silvery-white hairs.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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It's the padded (thickly padded, that is) fist version of Olympic fencing, another sport I cannot relate with.
Why Darting Isn't Hunting
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The forest thinned as branches parted; a few hamlets dotted grassy slopes below and thickly-wooded hills reared above.
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Trim the brown cap mushrooms and thickly slice.
Times, Sunday Times
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Some of it splattered on to the ground, some of it soaked the scaffolding but the most of it ran flowed thickly down Peter's back, saturating his clothes.
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Seven years in the making, Emperor Shah Jahan thought as he ascended the three steps to the Peacock Throne and sank down on the main gaddi —a mattress thickly stuffed with cotton and upholstered in red velvet embroidered in gold zari and minute pearls.
Shadow Princess
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The _first glume_ is ovate-oblong, thickly coriaceous, smooth at the back with a truncate base and a transverse ridge at the base inside, many-nerved, with very narrow inflexed margins and very narrow wings at the top, the apex is obtuse or emarginate.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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As the sauce simmers, add more stock as necessary to maintain a velvety consistency that thickly coats a wooden spoon but isn't gloppy.
Holy-Moly Lobster Mole
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He wore a blue buttoned-down shirt with the cuffs rolled halfway up his surprisingly ropey and thickly veined forearms.
A RODENT OF DOUBT
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This is a province of lovely undulating countryside mostly thickly wooden, blending into hills and mountains.
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And the _Jou-yao_, second in rank among all porcelains, sometimes mocking the aspect and the sonority of bronze, sometimes blue as summer waters, and deluding the sight with mucid appearance of thickly floating spawn of fish; --
Some Chinese Ghosts
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Lunch will not be a bowl of additive-laden, over-salty canned soup or a stodgy sandwich thickly smeared with butter.
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Peel the carrots, parsnips and onions and thickly slice.
Times, Sunday Times
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Here the task was as difficult as ever, as they had to pass through some timber thickly intergrown with brush.
The Rover Boys In The Mountains Or, A Hunt for Fun and Fortune
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Peel the orange thickly, removing the white pith, and cut into segments.
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The Formation with a total thickness of 2,500 m in the area generally consists of calcareous sandstone, greywacke and silt interbeds, with some massive and median-thickly bedded limestones.
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The eastern part of the country is more thickly populated.
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We at length, with difficulty, got our horses up a rocky point, on which grew a thick scrub of "blackwood," as Yuranigh called it, an acacia having many tough stems growing thickly together from one root, and obstructing the passage, and covering the ground with its half-fallen and fallen timber.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
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a thickly populated area
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Slice the meat thickly.
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I-I-I don't get you, he says thickly, in a stuttered upper-pitch that probably succeeds in shaving a bourne of phlegm off his wind-pipe.
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A trogon was the next, a thickly-feathered soft-looking bird, yoke-toed like a cuckoo, and bearing great resemblance in shape to the nightjar of the English woods, but wonderfully different in plumage; for, whereas the latter is of a soft blending of greys and browns, like the wings of some woodland moths, this trogon's back was of a cinnamon brown, and its breast of a light rosy-scarlet blending off into white crossed with fine dark-pencilled stripes.
The Rajah of Dah
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Elsewhere at the party, a swarthy portrait artist made googly eyes and thickly accented passes at Sheree, but the woman only had eyes for her own giant-sized image.
'Real Housewives of Atlanta' recap: Breaking Up with NeNe | EW.com
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I have been all about it; on the farther coast, which is to the south, it is well populated, while on the northern coast is the village called Mindoro, as well as other thickly-populated rivers.
The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 — Volume 03 of 55 1569-1576 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing
