thick-growing

Nothing grows in the shadow of the old, thick-growing spruce-tree, but Mr Darwin is a tree that spreads light, Thomas Davies thinks.

Archive 2009-09-01 David McDuff 2009

It was near mid-day when he came upon a sheet of water with willows growing about the margin, and stopped for awhile to rest his eyes on the cool, thick-growing leaves; and something of the grace of the fields entered into his soul.

Eve and David 2007

It was near mid-day when he came upon a sheet of water with willows growing about the margin, and stopped for awhile to rest his eyes on the cool, thick-growing leaves; and something of the grace of the fields entered into his soul.

Eve and David 2007

The squatty-nosed jeep was well hidden, back from the road in a wide coulee, its dark green color blending in with thick-growing chokecherry bushes.

Calder Born, Calder Bred Janet Dailey 1983

The squatty-nosed jeep was well hidden, back from the road in a wide coulee, its dark green color blending in with thick-growing chokecherry bushes.

Calder Born, Calder Bred Janet Dailey 1983

As quickly as they could they scrambled off the beaten way and up into the deep heather and bilberry brushwood on the slopes above, until they came to a small patch of thick-growing hazels.

The Fellowship of the Ring Tolkien, J. R. R. 1965

As quickly as they could they scrambled off the beaten way and up into the deep heather and bilberry brushwood on the slopes above, until they came to a small patch of thick-growing hazels.

The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954

It was covered with thick-growing bracken and heather, with a few stunted gorse-bushes -- but there was no place that would really give them a safe shelter to sleep.

The Adventurous Four Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1952

Besides these there were extensive forests of thick-growing trees, whose dense branches, interlacing overhead, threw down heavy shadows.

The Cryptogram A Novel James De Mille

Small birds pass the winter nights in evergreens, thick-growing vines, under the eaves of verandas, or {86} on the rafters of bridges.

The Bird Study Book Thomas Gilbert Pearson