Several large Sugar Pines stood near the thicket in which I was sheltered, bowing solemnly and tossing their long arms as if interpreting the very words of the storm while accepting its wildest onsets with passionate exhilaration.

Deer, with their supple, well-grown fawns, bounded from thicket to thicket as I advanced; grouse kept rising from the brown grass with a great whirring of wings, and, alighting on the lower branches of the pines and poplars, allowed a near approach, as if curious to see me.

Deer, with their supple, well-grown fawns, bounded from thicket to thicket as I advanced; grouse kept rising from the brown grass with a great whirring of wings, and, alighting on the lower branches of the pines and poplars, allowed a near approach, as if curious to see me.

At length emerging from a narrow-throated gorge, a small house came in sight set in a thicket of fig-trees at the base of a limestone hill.

Things being thus, what can be more charming than a rural excursion to some tangled thicket, the very brambles, and poison-ivy, and possible copperhead snakes of which are points of unspeakable value to a picnic party, because they are sensational, and one cannot have them in the city without rushing into fabulous extra expense.

"Go you to Mortain," said he, "seek out the hermit Ambrose that liveth in Holy Cross Thicket; with him shall you find refuge, and he, methinks, will surely win thy soul to heaven.

As the day advanced the sun grew ever hotter; birds chirped drowsily from hedge and thicket, and the warm, still air was full of the slumberous drone of a myriad unseen wings.

Tissue-building flour and sustaining meat are necessary to climb the ridges and battle the thicket.

Was he lost somewhere in the intertwining trails, seeking shelter in a heavy thicket until the dawn should show him his way?

He had always kept it hidden in a little thicket of tall reeds,if only the girl had not removed it from its place in his weeks of sickness!

He was not one to announce his coming by an audible footfall in the thicket.

At last her wild, romantic verses became more unrestrained; the music quickened until, regardless of all things, Fray Joseph burst the thicket asunder and stood before her, huge, exalted, palpitant.

Turning, he tore himself away and went crashing blindly through the thicket like a bull pursued.

Then from the thicket starts a deer, The huntsman, seizing on his spear, Cries, "Maiden, wait thou for me here.

"In forest wild, in thicket, brake, or den."Id., vii, 458.

Lady: My brothers, when they saw me wearied out With this long way, resolving here to lodge Under the spreading favor of these pines, Stepped, as they said, to the next thicket-side To bring me berries, or such cooling fruit As the kind hospitable woods provide.

He lay panting at last in the smothering thicket, thirty feet from the rear-deck of the Savonarola.

I have alluded to the descent of Snow-Buntings upon the landscape as singularly picturesque; but the motions of a flock of Quails, when suddenly aroused from a thicket, are not less so.

Major Ross had ten houses housesone at the edge of the thicket, two on Stone river, and they was scattered around over his land.

Nothing but er pine thicket and er black berry thicket.

Nothing but er pine thicket and er black berry thicket.

When night came on, chilly and dark, they gathered driftwood and dead branches from the thicket and built a camp-fire.

Right twenty to thicket.

His Lordship and a boatman lay in the thicket waiting for me.

There were many paths through the woods back of the cottages, and I followed several futilely before I at last found a small house snugly bid away in a thicket of young maples.