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Example sentences for "thick growth"

  • In this far western locality, the birds "generally frequented the clumps of aspen trees and Norway pines, where the ground was covered with a thick growth of dry pine grass.

  • It was built among a thick growth of dwarf dogwood, and under a tiny, crooked stemmed maple sapling, very well concealed, and was rather more substantially built than the average nest of this species.

  • There was a thick growth of vegetation--a belt some hundred yards wide--on both banks of the river.

  • In other localities a thick growth of beautiful bamboos interspersed with gigantic palms lined the banks.

  • After that we came to a thick growth of bamboos and brush on reaching the banks of a streamlet winding its way north.

  • Those streams were generally bordered by a thick growth of trees and entangled vegetation.

  • Rounded rocky hills rise here and there through the clay, and on these, as well as often on the more stony parts of the till, the surface is dotted with a thick growth of lichens, such as Alectoria ochroleuca, A.

  • We pressed forward along a narrow road leading through a thick growth of timber, until we came where the Fifth corps was contending the ground.

  • To the eastward the country was flatter, with irregular ranges of low hills, all covered with a thick growth of spruce and fir balsam.

  • On the under side of the branches of the fir trees was generally to be found a thick growth of hairy moss, and with a handful of this as tinder it did not take me long to get a good fire blazing.

  • Overgrowing the greater part of them, and climbing from one to another, is a wilderness of vines, in whose sinewy embrace many of the stones lie half-hidden, while in some places a thick growth of bushes entirely covers them.

  • Accordingly we now commenced it by descending the almost perpendicular side of a steep and narrow gorge, bristling with a thick growth of reeds.

  • The underbrush in general is scanty, though in some places there is a thick growth of mountain maple (Acer spicatum) and of sugar maple seedlings.

  • Grassy-meadow habitat: Part of the beaver meadow studied near Gogebic Lake is covered by a thick growth of grasses and sedges of a number of species.

  • At the upper border of the strip of muddy shore is a thick growth of sedges, meeting the muddy shore at a fairly sharp line.

  • In one of my strolls with Kory-Kory, in passing along the border of a thick growth of bushes, my attention was arrested by a singular noise.

  • He had dismounted in a wood, a thick growth of cedars screening him from the observation of any one passing along the road.

  • As Calhoun entered this depression, he noticed that a thick growth of underbrush came up close to the side of the road, affording a splendid place for concealment.

  • Morgan and those with him took shelter behind a thick growth of cedars, while Calhoun rode ahead to investigate.

  • In the shallow, poorly drained depressions of the cleared upland the vegetation is dominated by rushes, which grow in clumps and form a thick growth, reaching a height of about one meter as a maximum.

  • On their older portions next the forest of the flood-plains occurs a thick growth of herbs, several annual grasses, and rarely a willow, Salix sp.

  • Early in the spring a thick growth of herbs covers the ground, but by July the herbs are mostly gone, only a few remaining, and there are many small bare areas covered only by leaves.

  • About two hours after we had left camp, we emerged from the open forest, with which most of the country was covered, upon a broad open valley, devoid of bush, but covered with a thick growth of yellow grass some four feet high.

  • On my right was a small river whose banks were fringed with a thick growth of scrubby bush.


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