"To the left of the thicket is a slope," Mrs. Levins had told her. From Wordnik.com. ['Firebrand' Trevison] Reference
Then Abraham looked around, and there in the thicket was a ram caught by his horns. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Book of Bible Stories] Reference
Not far beyond the thicket was a brook of uncommon beauty, a clear little stream bordered by wild flowers. From Wordnik.com. [The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River"] Reference
Australian kinds, the plants that make the forests a thicket are the rattans and other jungle plants of India!. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
The thicket was his shambles, and if not interrupted, he might have had a fine display of titbits in a short time. From Wordnik.com. [Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs] Reference
Sotomayor's name comes from a combination of the words soto ( "thicket") and mayor ( "greater"). From Wordnik.com. [ChronWatch - Articles] Reference
In the midst of the thicket was a large oak. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER XVI] Reference
'thicket', it will certainly get bought up if it has good results on animals, so there is plenty of incentive still there. From Wordnik.com. [Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
The statistical argument is an impenetrable thicket. From Wordnik.com. [Don't Worry, America] Reference
I was gazing at her big pouty lips through the thicket. From Wordnik.com. [Turn Me On] Reference
The men are getting close to the center of the thicket. From Wordnik.com. [Thicket] Reference
Your fingers wandered the thicket of his soft brown hair. From Wordnik.com. [Assumption] Reference
After a while, the precision shaping this thicket becomes clear. From Wordnik.com. [To Be Young, Gifted And Rich] Reference
Every bill in Congress must navigate through the political thicket. From Wordnik.com. [Billy Shore: Would it Spoil Some Vast Eternal Plan?] Reference
Ezra tried to work his way through a frustrating thicket of thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [Bread, Fish, Serpent, Stone (continued)] Reference
Sorting through the thicket of charges and countercharges can be difficult. From Wordnik.com. [Shoot to Kill] Reference
The notes of birdsong, the flapping of wings are in each glade and thicket. From Wordnik.com. [Something About Ireland] Reference
Daniel asked Will as they looked into the thicket off to the side of the trail. From Wordnik.com. [The Bear (April Fool's Day Challenge)] Reference
It takes but a moment to breach the thicket and cross the threshold of my Eden. From Wordnik.com. [Ambrosia] Reference
A thicket of cranes along the River Liffey testifies to an ongoing construction boom. From Wordnik.com. [Sunset on the Liffey?] Reference
It's clear the nascent biotechnology industry has a thicket of issues to work through. From Wordnik.com. [Red Herring Redux] Reference
A thicket of restrictions deters all but the very richest outsiders from buying homes. From Wordnik.com. [Banking on the Swiss] Reference
Perot's top-notch brain trust has carefully examined the thicket of local and federal laws. From Wordnik.com. [Let The Party Begin] Reference
Elsewhere in the world a thicket of similar, interlocking problems loom over the oil patch. From Wordnik.com. [National Treasure] Reference
There in a shaded thicket we chanced on a deep fissure in the rock that led into ... a cave. From Wordnik.com. [The deadly lure of cave paintings] Reference
"I'll call you later, okay?" she said, and made our way out through the thicket of gummi worms. From Wordnik.com. [Gummi Worms, Love, etc.] Reference
Authorities found a rifle and sniper's scope in a honeysuckle thicket 150 feet from Evers's house. From Wordnik.com. [Old Enemies, New Questions] Reference
The downside became visible in the 1990s as drug developers began confronting the new patent thicket. From Wordnik.com. [Innovation Gridlock] Reference
Because of a thicket of state regulations, it takes up to seven years to plan and build a power plant. From Wordnik.com. [California Powers Down] Reference
But in practice, it cleared a path out of the discrimination-law thicket for employers in every industry. From Wordnik.com. [Sign Or Hit The Street] Reference
Though I met with Annie twice a week, it was a real struggle to get past the thicket that kept her away from me. From Wordnik.com. [Teaching A Child, Changing A Life] Reference
But the new track laid by the South Koreans ends at the thicket of bunkers and land mines that marks the border. From Wordnik.com. [No Pain, No Gain?] Reference
Any of us who've reported on America's wars know how the Pentagon hides in the thicket of endless investigations. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowland: The Iraqi Horror Picture Show] Reference
One likes to spend Thanksgiving in Martha's Vineyard with a thick stack of books, one in rural Texas with a thicket of cedar. From Wordnik.com. [West Wing Story: Blast From The Past] Reference
And a thicket of towers, soaring above the skyline, testifies to the status of Europe's largest and most vibrant center of world finance. From Wordnik.com. [SPECIAL REPORT: LONDON CALLING] Reference
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