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Example sentences for "thick wood"

  • The bark hut which was their prison, was situated at the extremity of the range of huts, and close to a thick wood, from which Baldabella made her nightly visits without disturbance.

  • Then, on the margin of the river, beneath the shelter of a thick wood, they landed, to thank God for their escape, and to take rest.

  • Meanwhile, they persevered on the left in defending a thick wood, the advanced position of which broke our line.

  • And the King found their words good; so two of his ministers took the child a long way off to a solitary place, and left him exposed in a thick wood.

  • Shall we not rather take him to some solitary place and leave him to his fate in a thick wood?

  • When they had well entered the thick wood, the minister's son fell upon the prince from behind, and slew him.

  • Having passed the plantations, they came to a thick wood, which they entered by a path made for the convenience of the natives, who go thither to fetch the wild or horse-plantain, and to catch birds.

  • Our way was through a thick wood, the bottom of which was a mere quagmire, most part of it up to our knees, and often to our middle, and every now and then we had a large tree to get over, for they often lay directly in our road.

  • Izard's force were in the open plain, while their foes were hidden in a thick wood.

  • As men and horses threaded their way past the Devil's Hole savage yells burst from the thick wood on their right, and simultaneously a fusillade from a hundred muskets.

  • Cuyler drew up his men in front of the boats, and a sharp musketry fire followed between the Indians, who were sheltered by a thick wood, and the white men on the exposed shore.

  • The murderous work completed there, they had taken up a position in a thick wood half a mile farther down, where they silently waited.

  • The basaltic rock ceased and an open grassy incline was before them covered with myrtle and cactus bushes; and further off a thick wood, to the east of which rose a hill sparsely dotted with olive trees.

  • It was a thick wood of large oak trees which must certainly have been a hundred years old.

  • Then, when these had collected, we went on another two or three miles up the river-bed of mud and rocks, which opened into a narrow road of mud, with a thick wood on either side.

  • Having wearied myself with looking for game, and penetrated beyond my former landmarks, I came suddenly upon a small hamlet, occupying a piece of cleared ground in the very heart of a thick wood.

  • They were drawn up in three lines upon the brow of a hill, having their front and left flank covered by a branch of the Potomac, and their right resting upon a thick wood and a deep ravine.

  • These orders we obeyed on the following morning; and after an agreeable march of fifteen or sixteen miles, pitched our tents in a thick wood, about half-way between the village of Bedart and the town of St. Jean de Luz.

  • They held their position on the hill, just within the edge of a thick wood, about one mile west of the city, and near the Fair-Ground.

  • They were ascending the hill, upon the summit of which was a thick wood, when Hayward said: "Do you see those lines of infantry just within that grove.

  • He opened the fence opposite the place from that which he had left the Fair-Ground, and, driving into a thick wood beyond, soon struck a narrow path, just large enough to admit the passage of the cart.

  • They had thus made considerable progress before nightfall, when the Indians halted in a small open space in the midst of a thick wood, where they lighted a fire and prepared, as it seemed, to pass the night there.

  • They were passing the borders of a thick wood, nearly knee-deep in grass, when Roger felt his foot strike against a hard substance which emitted a hollow sound, as it gave way before him.

  • They halted in a thick wood, where they lay down, not a word being uttered, Gilbert and Fenton following their example.

  • Then, striking off the road, they marched through the fields until a mile and a half to the east of it, when they halted in a thick wood.

  • A stream some four feet in depth passed under a bridge, where the road dipped into a hollow; beyond this the ground rose steeply, and was covered with a thick wood, of very considerable extent.

  • The way was long, and lay through a thick wood, where the Princess heard strange voices calling to her from every side, but she was in such a hurry that she stopped for nothing, and at last she came to the courtyard of the Enchanter's castle.

  • By the time they reached the Pig's dwelling, which stood in a thick wood, it was quite dark.

  • Little Red Riding Hood, who was a willing child, and always ready to be useful, put the things into a basket, and immediately set off for the village where her grandmother lived, which lay on the other side of a thick wood.

  • This sheet of water, which is three miles over, is bounded in front by an island of thick wood, and by a bold circular hill which is his lordship's deer park; this hill is backed by a considerable mountain.

  • House Island is one fine, thick wood, which admits not a gleam of light, a contrast to the silver bosom of the lake.

  • There is a great variety on the banks of this vale; part of it consists of mild and gentle slopes, part steep banks of thick wood.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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