For there was now nobody to hinder them, excepting the poor remains of the Britons, who continued together in the thickets of the woods in Wales.
To these, indeed, flight was an easy matter, and they lay hidden in the thickets and marshes through their local knowledge; all which things being adverse to the Romans, served to protract the war.
Thickets of panicled dogwood are feeding stations for other migrants; already the crimson fruit-stalks have been stripped of half their white berries.
Now the willows begin to mark its course, then elms and oaks and walnuts with little thickets of panicled dogwood and wild plum, where the wild grape and the bittersweet display their fruit and the wild duck sometimes makes her nest.
And he remembered coming to the edge of the rhododendron thickets and feeling that he could not go on.
The sky was a lustrous, enamelled blue; the fields and thickets sparkled with dewdrops; and a cheerful chorus of birds chirruped a marching song for them.
Twenty-two hours to Emerson," said the official; but nearly two weeks of digging passed before we did reach Emerson, and the poplar country where the thickets stop all drifting of the snow.
Their miniature thickets are noisy with the cries of Fieldfare, Pipit, and Ptarmigan, but these are left behind on nearing the upper plateau, where shade of rock and sough of wind are all that take their place.
The willow brakes and oak thickets harbored rabbits and birds.
There's a broad zigzag belt of gold halfway up the San Francisco peaks, and that is the aspen thickets taking on their fall coat.
It is one of the most pleasing characteristics of our native thicketsthat they never rise abruptly Always they shade off through cushionlike copses of smaller growth into the level ground around.
Only here it was interspersed with occasional thickets of young aspen-boles.
This mass slopes down to thickets of alder, red dogwood, haw, highbush cranberry, and honeysuckle, with wide beds of goldenrod or purple asters shading off into the spangled meadows wherever the copses open up into grassy glades.
Once I passed close to and south of, two thickets which were completely buried by the snow.
Jack could now see between the thickets that the clearing was just ahead.
The mocking birds were singing in ceaseless medley from the inky-black thickets beyond.
The sunlight came in at the open window, the warm mellow breeze just stirring the linen curtains drawn back to either side and bringing with it the multitudinous sounds of singing birds from the thickets beyond the garden.
Jack shouted at it as it plunged into the thickets again, and he could hear it rustling thunderously through the bushes for a long while as he sat peering in through the dense screen of leaves whither it had gone.
But what people take forthickets of cactus in the Indian jungle are really thickets of cactus-like spurges.
Most of them, you will find on examination, belonged to confirmed hedgerow or woodside plants: they grow among bushes or low scrub, and thickets of gorse or bramble.
These places are often covered with canes and thickets and are called, in the corrupted American dialect, swamps.
For a moment or two, as he led her round by the back way through thickets of rhododendrons, he felt triumphant, as a man does when he sees an opportunity before him.
In a few places small blackberry thickets occur in the areas of rushes and dominate all other plants.
The adventures in the swamp had been exceedingly tiring, and the youth could scarcely drag one foot after the other, as the party of three hurried along over rocks and through thickets which at certain points seemed almost impassible.
The lake was as smooth as a millpond, and surrounded with long stretches of marshland and heavy thickets of tropical growth.
The upland gave place to sandy dunes, the hollows of which were marshy and made the going difficult; but the night was breathless and not a leaf stirred in the oleander thickets to alarm their progress.
Like birds calling to one another, in the green thickets far away two bells tinkled their monotone; and a small gray craft flying the white ensign glided over the charmed sea toward Samothrace.
More than one trampled place beside the thickets of edible brush showed where the deer herd had browsed within stone's throw of the tote-road.
Anyway, the best he would do would be to scare up creatures in the thickets that we otherwise would not know were there.
If the former is a country for cows, this is the very home for bears, and some of the 'ill-favoured rough things' do in fact still find shelter among the dense thickets of creeping pine which cover every patch of level ground.
Oak thickets and chestnut copses clothe the slopes; cyclamens, common as daisies at home, bend their graceful heads on every sunny bank.
Haste and hide thee, Ere too late, In these thickets intricate; Lest Prometheus See and chide thee, Lest some hurt Or harm betide thee, Haste and hide thee!
But the friends with whom I ranged Through their thickets are estranged By the years that intervene.
In the mirror of its tide Tangled thickets on each side Hang inverted, and between Floating cloud or sky serene.
That night a mingled column of fire and smoke Prom the dark thickets of the forest broke, And, glaring o'er the landscape leagues away, Made all the fields and hamlets bright as day.
The beach itself was black and raw where the surf washed it, but elsewhere all was white, save for the thickets of alder and willow which protruded nakedly.
He went throughthickets of juniper, and had to go around clumps of quaking asp.
There was no game in the country, with the exception of an occasional bird or rabbit, nothing but the white hills, the fringe of alder tops along the watercourses, and the thickets of gnarled, unhealthy spruce in the smothered valleys.
The Roes frequent young woods andthickets in the vicinity of cultivated ground, where they delight to crop the buds and shoots, thus doing considerable mischief in plantations.
They generally build their nests in the loftiest trees, and occasionally in thickets of brushwood among the rocks.
Masses of the beautiful but gloomy Papyrus rush, growing in dense thickets about eighteen feet above the water.
The house was indeed charmingly situated on a hillside at the foot of which a little clear trout stream, called Rio Gallinas, chuckled over the bright pebbles in its bed and ran to hide in thickets of willow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thickets" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
