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  • I'd never used leeks before the other night, and had to call and ask her what to do with the thick-leafed vegetable.

    Stephanie Gertler: Foods for Thoughts 2009

  • The nice weather and the streets lined with thick-leafed trees made it all the lovelier.

    sheepdip Diary Entry sheepdip 2003

  • Blind Seer at her side, she darted through the fringes of farmer's fields, haunted the forests, and swarmed up the spreading branches of a thick-leafed oak to howl defiance at the moon.

    Through Wolfs Eyes 2001

  • He went to the fallen tree and came back with an unusually thick-leafed branch.

    Circles of Stone Joan Dahr Lambert 1997

  • He went to the fallen tree and came back with an unusually thick-leafed branch.

    Circles of Stone Joan Dahr Lambert 1997

  • He went to the fallen tree and came back with an unusually thick-leafed branch.

    Circles of Stone Joan Dahr Lambert 1997

  • There came a squeak from a thick-leafed branch overhanging the road then a goblin tumbled from the thicket to land dead at Kelsey's feet.

    The Woods Out Back Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 1993

  • Below them, the forest was impenetrable, nothing but the thick-leafed branches.

    Kahawa Westlake, Donald E. 1982

  • The walks under the thick-leafed elms were thronged with talking, laughing groups.

    Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good Albert Walter Tolman

  • That huge, luxurious, thick-leafed, yellow-flowered crop, alike comforting and extravagant, that tobacco that was in much to mould manners and customs and ways of looking at things, was beginning to grow abundantly.

    Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings Mary Johnston 1903

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