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He walked out and away, as if someone with a whip were after him, not even looking for a cab, glad of the empty Embankment and the cold river, and the thick-strewn shadows of the plane-tree leaves — confused, flurried, sore at heart, and vaguely disturbed, as though he had made some deep mistake whose consequences he could not foresee.

In Chancery 2004

The crowd with parti-coloured faces, tired, good-humoured, frowsily scented, strolled over a battlefield thick-strewn with paper bags, banana peel, and newspapers.

The White Monkey 2004

FICUS CUNNINGHAMI discards — by no means consistently — its foliage in obedience to some spasmodic impulse, when the many thin branches, thick-strewn with pink fruit, stand out against the sky as aerial coral, fantastically dyed.

My Tropic Isle 2003

The great Sea of Life is thick-strewn with wrecks -- millions more drifting helpless and hopeless upon the rocks.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12 1919

Her gaze leaped in terror across the blackness of the auditorium with its thick-strewn round white disks of human faces, sought the eyes of Burlingham standing in full view in the center of the rear doorway -- where he had told her to look for him.

Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise, Volume I 1915

But all about us were other sounds, and getting unsteadily to my legs, I saw the plain 'twixt town and forest thick-strewn with the fallen.

Martin Conisby's Vengeance Jeffery Farnol 1915

No European cares to linger about these precincts after dusk; here lie the dead, in thick-strewn graves; here the jackal roams at night -- it thrusts its pointed snout through the ephemeral masonry of townsmen's tombs or scratches downward within the ring of stones that mark some poor bedouin's corpse, to take toll of the carrion horrors beneath; so you may find many graves rifled.

Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910

Lad, trotting hungrily to his dinner dish, would find his food thick-strewn with cayenne pepper or else soaked in reeking gasoline.

Further Adventures of Lad Albert Payson Terhune 1907

The trail was ill-defined and rough, winding through bare glacial bowlders that were thick-strewn on the ridges; and the difficulty of following it, together with the heat, made the work seem doubly hard, as we trudged with heavy packs to the shores of a little lake which nestled in a notch between the bills a mile and a half away.

The Long Labrador Trail Dillon Wallace 1901

He walked out and away, as if someone with a whip were after him, not even looking for a cab, glad of the empty Embankment and the cold river, and the thick-strewn shadows of the plane-tree leaves -- confused, flurried, sore at heart, and vaguely disturbed, as though he had made some deep mistake whose consequences he could not foresee.

The Forsyte Saga, Volume II. Indian Summer of a Forsyte In Chancery John Galsworthy 1900