I mean the one with the black hussar jacket and thick brown moustache.
I am the bearer of a compliment--' Her thick eyebrows stood in a knot, then she glanced at me and hung pensive.
We were conscious that his thick case of varnished clothing was against us.
My father, as it happened, was careful not to open his lips wide on account of the plaster, or thick coating of paint on his face.
A thick smoke and an unpleasant odor met them at the door.
When it gits a little darker I could blind a chicken on the roost an' fry it, or I could make you some thick flour soup with sliced dumplin's.
The woods through which the little road had been cut were so thick and the foliage so dense that the overlapping branches often hid the sky.
What would be a safe outside pressure for a cylinder of wrought iron, 1/2 inch thick and 4 feet in diameter, and 8 feet long?
Then add enough wood naphtha to make a stiff paste, and after standing an hour transfer to a fine linen bag and express the thick liquid in a screw press.
The crawling worms make their appearance clothed in and defended by a thick furry garb, which deceives their enemies, until, transformed into moths, they fly to and fro in happy freedom under cover of the night.
It has a heart which beats like ours; but we cannot see its pulsations beneath its thick coat of mail.
An embryo launched into the thick of the fray, to be the victim of all--of birds, and even of insects.
The pines stood up strong in their immortal verdure, the thick golden hush of the summer afternoon lay like an enchantment about the low brown house.
At home she was hard to live with, quick to take offense at the least breath of the adverse criticism which she felt, unspoken and forbearing but thick in the air about her.
As she trod on the thick moss upspringing under her long, light step, her advance seemed as buoyant as though she stepped from cloud to cloud.
The door opened and Professor Marshall appeared, his face very white under the thick stubble of his gray, unshaven beard, his shoulders bowed, his head hanging.
The man made an inarticulate murmur of pity--put out his thick red fingers, took the message gently from her hand, and opened it.
When they went down to their supper of watery creamed potatoes, and stewed apricots in thick saucers, she was in such good humor that she ate this unappetizing fare with no protest.
In four minutes from the time they had entered the village (Sylvia had her watch in her hand) they were flying back, the car packed with men in overalls and clustered thick with others on the running-board.
You shall change this smock-frock for a real cloth jacket, and your thick boots for polished shoes.
So saying, he laid at her feet the skin, thick with stiffened bristles, and the head and monstrous tusks.
At the sight Nisus hurled himself into the thick of his foes, scattering them right and left with the lightnings of his glaive, till he forced his way to Volscens, and with a dying effort smote the murderer of his sweet friend.
The largest of all he kept for himself, creeping beneath it, and clinging to the thick fleece below its belly.
Cheered by this vision, AEneas and Achates pressed forward, and, that none might molest them, Venus wrapped them in a thick mist.
Midas fled away amid the laughter of the deities and nymphs, and as quickly as possible concealed his disgrace under a thick turban.
Now her heart called for something it had not yet divined, but the perplexed soul was wistfully gazing upward through the thick clouds that drooped so closely about her, and a feeble wail issued from beneath the sombre darkness.
It was a damp, chill morning, for the sun was hiding behind dense leaden clouds and a thick fog had settled down upon the city.
Willie dropped his head upon the pillow beside him and lay there motionless and still until the twilight shadows came creeping in at the window, covering him with a thick black pall.
And with a bound she sprang over the fence and was lost in the thick underbrush of the honeysuckle swamp.
The thick folds of an interminable gloom seemed to have fallen about her, and everywhere she beheld that "mother's curse" written in letters of fire!
The mother drew aside the thick folds of the curtains which shut her in and gazed fixedly upon her waxen features.
To their mind Jehovah is the Lord of hosts, an invisible, absolute Power, inhabiting the thick darkness, and speaking in the fire.
It was while Jesus was praying upon the holy mount that the heavens were opened unto Him; and now, as another cloud envelopes Him, not of glory, but of a thick darkness, it finds Him in the same attitude of prayer.
The unique arrangement of the wooden substructures suggests that the central building was in the form of a round tower with very thick walls, like the brochs and other forts of North Britain.
Munro's "tower with its central pole and very thick walls" {49b} erected merely for the purpose of warning canoes off shoals in the Clyde.
They dwelt at top of a stone structure some eight feet above low water mark, for they could not live on the ground floor, of which the walls, fifty feet thick at the base, defied the waves of the high tides driven by the west wind.
This old rascal of mine was right in the thick of it.
He was a big burly fellow with a mottled face, thick neck and small eyes that seldom had in them anything but a surly expression.
Every instinct in him clamored to be in the very thick and front of the coming fight.
Now watch me carefully and I'll try to instill some scientific knowledge in those thick noddles of yours.
Leaving them to their employment, I repaired to the shore of the lake and, after mastering a somewhat natural repugnance, I made with my hands a mortar or paste of thick clay, in which I encased the black woodcock.
There in lonely solitude did I languish; and at intervals I heard through the thick walls, from the adjoining keep, the dismal, despairing accents of my ill-starred fellow countryman bewailingly uplifted.
As we marched away over the brow of the hill the sun shone down with excessive and caloric fervour and the dust rose in thick clouds, coating our lineaments, which already were bedewed with perspiration.
There they were, thick with the memories of my sea-life.
This being so, you will easily understand that there is constantly a more or less thick layer of coal generally shaped in a slope lying in that doorway.
He had a grey beard, a big nose, thick lips, and heavy shoulders.
He takes Tartarin by the arm, he does not conceal his interest in the Nabob's cheques, his sympathy for an honest Academician plus bete que nature, his hate for an architect plus mauvais que la gale; he is in the thick of it all.
In the distance the Florian Gate, thick and squat under its pointed roof, barred the street with the square shoulders of the old city wall.
As to the so-called cork-fender, it is a sort of soft balloon made from a net of thick rope rather more than a foot in diameter.
She had intended to touch it only once--just to accentuate the fact of her motherliness--but it was the sort of soft thick hair which seemed meant for the gentle passing through it of a woman's fingers.
A single ray of moonlight pierced the thick foliage of the mulberry, and fell across her face.
The mist hung about him like a thick cloud when he set up his instrument near the big rock in the potato field and continued his survey, and it was no wonder that the change in the line of stakes did not attract his attention.
With his face to the thick darkness he struggled out to the path, down through the gate, and on into the middle of the road.
The appearance of a number of screens in the midst of thick grass means that the enemy wants to make us suspicious.
Now the rebels have pitched their camp in the midst ofthick grass which will easily burn when the wind blows.
Of course it is true that, during an engagement, or when in close touch with the enemy, the general should not be in the thick of his own troops, but a little distance apart.
For Teresa upheld Sylvia throughthick and thin, and would cheerfully efface herself for her sister.
She found the number she was looking for, and picked her way up a broad staircase thick with accumulations of dirt.
The south wind fluttered warmly, and the sky was thick with stars.
Light was now flooding in from outside, and bodies could be seen lying thick on the floor, cold and stiff in death.
They've certainly gotthick plates," remarked the Captain, as another direct hit failed to do more than scratch the metal.
She winced at his touch, and then pushed back her hair, still thick and wavy, with the grey just beginning to show in it, and returned his kiss.
Where the formation is extensive and persistent as in the cork-oak, a thick covering of cork is formed.
It is frequently found upon deities, kings and magnates, and appears to have been composed of some thickfurrowed or fluted material, sometimes of bright and variegated design.
As Caroline had predicted, the chums found Connie Danvers and Nellie Bane in the dormitory, curled up uncomfortably on the bed, heads bent disconsolately over two thick and bulky history books.
Lie down on the thick ice, both of you, and hold on to me just as hard as you can.
It was surprisingly warm and snug in there also, for the thick snow wrapped them in the warmest and fleeciest of blankets, and the only place for old Jack Frost to come in was the narrow entrance of the cave.
Some young colts stand at the door of an open shed, dull and depressed looking, and the horses ploughing on the sides of the hill send up a thick steam.
There is nothing for it but to dig it out; and oh, what a dig, all among roots and thorns on the sloping sides of the pond, inthick sticky clay, with the rain coming down in a steady pour!
Many rabbits do get through the nets, and others go back, and these latter it is difficult to get into the nets a second time, and they are killed by the dogs in the thick gorse.
They are well-known to both men and dogs, and the latter bolt on ahead and arrive first; and when we come up we find them all clustered round a hole in a high bank 'midst thick dripping bushes.
Again, it is said that if a ferret comes out of a hole in a thick hedge unseen, the bell will let you know where it is; but I must say I never lost a ferret in a hedge or felt the want of a belled one.
Both were remarkably pretty; both dark, with finely cut features, big eyes and thick soft black hair; but yet in different ways both had something sad about them.
These layers of fat are so thickthat while the colossus sleeps, stretched at its full length upon an icefield, hundreds of water rats can come and settle in it.
I had but to drink the cup, to doff at once the body of the noted professor, and to assume, like a thick cloak, that of Edward Hyde.
In this strait I did not hesitate a moment, but throwing on a shawl and bonnet, and covering my face with a thick veil, I betook myself to that great bazaar of dangerous and smiling chances, the pavement of the city.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thick" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
