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  • It is for the possession of these thickly-populated regions, and of the northern ice-cap, that the three powers are constantly struggling.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • It is for the possession of these thickly-populated regions, and of the northern ice-cap, that the three powers are constantly struggling.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • There was Lower Mellstock, the main village; half a mile from this were the church and vicarage, and a few other houses, the spot being rather lonely now, though in past centuries it had been the most thickly-populated quarter of the parish.

    Under the Greenwood Tree 2006

  • I think that sheep and barn-door fowls do better for everybody in the long run, and that men who cannot live without shooting should go beyond thickly-populated regions to find it.

    Phineas Redux 2004

  • I call your attention to this because, in my mind, our experience may have a validity for all the underdeveloped and thickly-populated countries of Asia.

    The Role of Free China in the Free World 1961

  • It is for the possession of these thickly-populated regions, and of the northern ice-cap, that the three powers are constantly struggling.

    Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949

  • At night you will hear the shrill cry of the screech-owl sounding down the silent streets in the most thickly-populated parts of the city.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

  • For more than sixty years Governor-General after Governor-General had pointed out the impossibility of a civilized Government tolerating in the midst of its possessions the misrule, disorder, and debauchery which were desolating one of the most fertile and thickly-populated districts in India.

    Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

  • I cannot remember a hotter day, and we were marching through a thickly-populated mining district -- the villages were uncomfortably like those round Dour.

    Adventures of a Despatch Rider William Henry Lowe Watson

  • The proposition, then, soon to be submitted for public approval is this: to erect in the suburbs of our large towns and cities, perhaps even in their most thickly-populated parts, extensive and handsome edifices that will provide sanitary Sepulchres for the dead.

    The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 Various

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