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  • adjective covered thickly

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Examples

  • This one's a "thickspread" too at well over eight hundred pages.

    Chasing Tale: October '09 2009

  • It is so at this Sunday afternoon concert, when the lights are blended, and the bottom of the kettle is thickspread with humanity, and sprinkled with splashes of dusky crimson or purple on women's hats, while the sides are more slightly spread with the same humanity up to the galleries.

    Impressions and Comments Havelock Ellis 1899

  • The youth started up with a little cry when his eyes first swept over this motionless mass of men, thickspread upon the ground, pallid, and in strange postures.

    The Red Badge of Courage 1895

  • He slowly lifted his rifle and catching a glimpse of the thickspread field he blazed at a cantering cluster.

    The Red Badge of Courage 1895

  • He slowly lifted his rifle and catching a glimpse of the thickspread field he blazed at a cantering cluster.

    The Red Badge of Courage 1895

  • The youth started up with a little cry when his eyes first swept over this motionless mass of men, thickspread upon the ground, pallid, and in strange postures.

    The Red Badge of Courage Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 1895

  • He slowly lifted his rifle and catching a glimpse of the thickspread field he blazed at a cantering cluster.

    The Red Badge of Courage Crane, Stephen, 1871-1900 1895

  • He slowly lifted his rifle and catching a glimpse of the thickspread field he blazed at a cantering cluster.

    The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane 1885

  • He slowly lifted his rifle and catching a glimpse of the thickspread field he blazed at a cantering cluster.

    The Red Badge of Courage Stephen Crane 1885

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