Scarcely had this hissing sound been heard when the branches of the thicket were agitated; they were then separated with violence, and an Indian bounded in fright towards the river.
Arrived at a short distance from thethicket he wished to reach, Diogo glided between two streams.
We crept with little noise to a thicket about fifty paces from the tunnel, but as though guided by some superior power set on our discovery, the procession came straight on to where we lay concealed.
Ever and again the sunshine gleams now on this group of masts, now on that; for they stand in groups as trees often grow, a thicket here and a thicket yonder.
It was in the midst of this littlethicket that a small, dark, and glittering object caught my attention.
The little brown wren finds her way through the great thicket of hawthorn.
It sounded from out a young spinney of eight or ten years' standing--that is to say, a thicket of about ten or a dozen feet high, wherein the drama was being acted.
Choron went into the thicket with his boarhound, and five minutes later the sow was turned out of her lair.
Around and afar stretched the waste, broadly open to the moonbeams, which softened the harsh outline of forest thicket and arid plain.
Hawk-eye might have issued from the ti-tree thicket by the creek and chuckled in his noiseless manner, while he rested la longue carabine on a fallen log.
He would reconnoitre from the hill or thicket for days beforehand.
Three times that day he stopped and built a fire at the edge of a thicket and heated thick caribou gruel which he fed by spoonfuls to the tiny robe-wrapped little girl that snuggled warm in his pack sack.
They gained the thicket a few moments before the storm struck.
Without a word she flung the plate of flapjacks she held as far into a thicket as she had force to fling it, and then dropped on her knees.
She had gone with Phil out behind the thicket of manzanita bushes, and they both stood motionless, undecided where to go.
It was exactly three o'clock by Dick's watch when the three boys emerged from the thicket to continue their interrupted flight.
It was raining and we slept part of the night in that thicket you see just ahead.
They passed a few tepees, the last at that end of the village, and plunged straight on through a thicket of saskatoon, very much to Dick's bewilderment.
Not long afterward, they crawled into a dense thicket which, though far from dry, afforded some protection from the steadily falling rain.
At the opposite side of the thicket a path, evidently used as a pack-trail, threaded its way through a dense growth of underbrush.
I stopped for some time before a thicket of glittering evergreens, over which hung, in every direction, streaming garlands of these fragrant golden cups, fit for Oberon's banqueting service.
She crossed Knockdane and sought the open country, for she mistrusted every tree and thicket since she knew what she had left in the woods behind.
She made him crouch down in the thicket twenty yards from the fence, but she herself crept forward.
Thus, night by night, they learned field-craft, and gradually grew to know the geography of the woods, with every pool and thicket and pathway.
In his extremity he ran back to the thicket where he had slept, to seek his cunning mother's help.
On the opposite side were more bushes and rocks, and then a thicket of tall trees of a variety that was strange to them.
But they did not want to stay in such a thicket and so they pushed on a little further, until they reached a slight rise of ground.
The old women, their backs bent with their loads, carried bundles of faggots from a thicketnear by and placed them upon the fires, that flared up with a sound like the wind’s, making a small circular day amid the gathering shadows.
Within the covering of a wild plum thicket at the side of the trail a saddled and bridled horse was lariated to a stake, and a man sat near by upon a rock, repeatedly tapping the horse on the flanks as it galloped about in a circle.
Then they pushed rapidly on into the little thicket which Henry recognized as his hiding-place of the previous night.
He hid his wheel in a thicket that he might work faster, pausing only to snatch from it the metal cane fastened to the frame.
Noiselessly, she and Tony retreated through the thicket to a shoreline some distance away.
For a moment she saw no one, and then from the thicket beside the tunnel, a figure became visible.
Now that very day the hundred years were completed; and as the prince came to the thicket he saw nothing but beautiful flowering shrubs, through which he passed with ease, and they closed after him as firm as ever.
But there went a report through all the land of the beautiful sleeping Briar Rose, for thus was the king's daughter called; so that from time to time several kings' sons came, and tried to break through the thicket into the palace.
Reynard, abundantly satisfied with his supper of eggs and early breakfast of rabbit, was lying asleep in a tuft of grass at the top of the thicket when the huntsman passed down the dingle after the meet.
Soon the little home in the thicket was deserted, and the leveret accompanied her mother on her nightly journeys till the fields and the woods for miles around became familiar.
Then, with blistered hands, he stepped out of the thicket at her side.
Then, the Mexican steadying him on one side and Clara riding near him on the other, he was conducted to the train, which was at that moment going into park near a thicket of willows.
She did not pass a cactus, or a thicket of mezquit, or a bowlder without anxious examination.
Above him the road curved, and she could not see him until she turned the little thicket just before him.
It was dusk when the little army arrived in the rear of a close thicket to a considerable length over the plain.
She watched the winding pathway that led from Lanark down the opposite heights, eager to catch a glimpse of the waving plumes of her husband when he should emerge from behind the hill, and pass under the thicket which overhung the road.
This fervant apostrophe, breathed to the night alone, was no sooner uttered, than he stole from the thicket into which he had cast himself to respose.
Springing on the projecting point of the nearest, he leaped into a thicket of honeysuckles.
At the same moment the yelp of a dog was followed by a succession of snarls and screams so nearly human that Rand started toward the thicket crying: "Quick, the dog is worrying a child.
They were about ready to start back when there came from a thicket forty yards distant a shrill scream that sounded like a child in distress.
A thicket was discernible through the fog, but every moment becoming less distinct.
Now, it happened that this day was the last day of the hundred years; and when the Prince came to the thicket that surrounded the castle and began to push his way through, he found that the briers yielded readily to his touch.
And out of the thicket came three beautiful white Swans.
They would keep in thethicket while on the march, and only discover themselves at a given signal.
There was a thicket of young cotton-trees and willows fringing the spring, and in the heart of this a fire was kindled.
We descended straightway into the thicket to make preparations for moving--to saddle our horses and take off their mufflings, which by this time had nearly blinded them.
I was yet screened in the thicket of cacti; but I saw that my hiding-place would soon be pierced by the eyes of the subtle savages; and dropping upon my hands and knees, I crept into the cliff.
We run for the thicket where our animals are tied.
The devoted horse is in fact a well-conditioned animal; and placing our videttes again, we proceed to the thicket to slaughter him.
The hunters now dismounted, and commenced trampling thethicket through and through.
Could he have escaped from the thicket while the men were engaged around the fallen buffaloes?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thicket" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
