thickety

• “Having stomped through a thickety survey of theoretical cultural-studies approaches to pop music, one arrives here: "Pop can make a sunny day out of bleak midwinter and establish empathy between strangers.”

  The Guardian: Et cetera: Steven Poole's non-fiction reviews

• “I'm not really surprised to see her here, as there are some thickety patches around that are absolutely crawling with songbirds.”

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• “With Mencken he shares a reflexive sympathy for the underdog, a distaste for cant and an addiction to thickety prose.”

  Newsweek: Ink-Stained Riches

• “I was afraid to shoot it and I got awfully tired carrying it and my father had left me standing in a thickety patch of timber while he was working out the singles from a covey we had scattered.”

  Simon & Schuster: Hemingway on Hunting

• “Chapman says (Handbook of Birds in Eastern North America) 'it is most at home in secluded woodland and thickety retreats ....”

  The Waste Land

• “Once, in a thickety wet tract where the still air was suffocating and a sluggish runlet meandered widely, Hardy was forced, after long hinderance, to drop the trail and recover it on a rising ground beyond.”

  The Flower of the Chapdelaines

• “The road soon was among the hills; rough, thickety, wild; from one glen into another, down and up steep ridge-sides, always mounting of course by degrees.”

  Daisy in the Field

• “On they wandered, through the tangled mazes of the thickety vales and marshes.”

  The British Partizan: A Tale of the Olden Time. By a Lady of South Carolina

• “He arose and followed the thickety bank for some miles, insensible alike to pain, fear or danger.”

  The British Partizan: A Tale of the Olden Time. By a Lady of South Carolina

• “The road soon was among the hills; rough, thickety, wild; from one glen into another, down and up steep ridge sides, always mounting of course by degrees.”

  Daisy in the Field

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