She said, "Don't look around, dear, for I presume the dust is thick on everything.

Why didn't he go into the thick of the battle like the Prince of Orange?

A thick smoke rises from the funnel, which occasionally belches forth a shower of sparks.

It forms a confused mass behind a thick curtain of trees.

In reality the most interesting place to see is a sort of annexe, a Tekke village, in the middle of Merv, whose inhabitants have retained the villainous characteristics of this decaying race, the muscular bodies, large ears, thick lips, black beard.

The nose is very handsome, the lips are not thick, the teeth are small.

There are no towns, no villagesnothing but a few scattered huts, in which the Pamirian lives a solitary existence with his family, his horses, his herds of yaks, or "koutars," which are cattle with horses' tails, his diminutive sheep, his thick-haired goats.

And instead of deterring him from his work, here he was in the thick of it, braving, possibly, unspeakable dangers.

"A woman like you would never write to a man oftener than he wrote to her, and Kittredge had a thick bundle of your letters.

He slipped by them, however, and caught out of the old merchant's hand the thick oak stick which he carried.

Will you not deign to rest under my roof, and even to take a cup of wine ere you go onwards?" Conde raised his thick eyebrows at the scriptural fashion of the merchant's speech, but he bowed courteously to the invitation, and entered the chamber, looking around him in surprise and admiration at its magnificence.

A single diamond sparkled in the thick coils of her dark tresses.

Away in front of them, between two dark tree clumps, lay a vast number of shimmering, glittering yellow points, as thick as flowers in a garden.

He shook them and hung his weight upon them, but they were as thick as his thumb and firmly welded.

Ah, I am sure that the good God never meant people to be as thick as that.

"On one occasion," writes one of her children, "shortly before harvest, the fields stood thick with corn, and our mother had already calculated that their produce would suffice to meet all claims for the year.

As it was thick drizzling, the men looked at him with amazement.

Ann Lang bought Love in Excess, which is quite a thick volume, for two shillings; and the first volume of Idalia (for Eliza was Ouidaesque even in her titles) only cost her eighteen-pence.

It was as difficult for Mr. Bell to conceive that his annotations of White were complete, as it had been for White himself to pluck up courage to publish; and it was not until 1877, when the author was eighty-five years of age, that his great and final edition in two thick volumes was issued.

For form's sake, the Diarist mentions now and again, very superficially, Shakespeare, Bacon, and Milton; but in reality, the garden of his study is bounded by a thick hedge behind the statue of Dryden.

The poem is the "stick" which had been recently mentioned in the third number of the Liberal: Have I, these five years, spared the dog a stick, Cut for his special use, and reasonably thick?

Cool in the noon-tide gleam, With rushes nodding in the little stream, And blue forget-me-not. Set in thick tufts along the bushy marge With big bright eyes of gold; And glorious water-plants, like fans, unfold Their blossoms strange and large. That wandering boy, young Hylas, did not find Beauties so rich and rare, Where swallow-wort and pale-bright maiden's hair And dog-grass richly twined.

Jane in the very thick of her emotion can say, "I have talked, face to face, with what I reverence, with what I delight inwith an original, a vigorous, an expanded mind.

he manor-house you could see nothing of it; so thick and dark grew the timber of the gloomy wood about it.

She plunged with Catherine Earnshaw into the thick of the tumult, and her detachment is not more wonderful than her immersion.