After a few drinks he was beginning to speak thickly. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Spread 1/4 lb softened margarine or cooking fat fairly thickly all over the surface. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
EURASIAN WATER MILFOIL (Myriophyllum spicatum) grows thickly from the bottom and mats on the surface. From Wordnik.com. [Catch More Largemouth Bass in Weeds in Early Spring] Reference
Oh, Beatrice! "he called thickly, in guarded tones. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness and Dawn] Reference
"Helm," von Schiller called thickly after him, "make certain that nobody disturbs me.". From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Scroll]
Well, when it got kind of thickly populated through here, they built on to it. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Raymond, Eunice, Wayne, and Charles Russell English, December 8, 1999. Interview K-0280. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
Day after day the same kind of thickly-wooded forest was seen on both shores, until it became almost monotonous. From Wordnik.com. [Old Gold The Cruise of the "Jason" Brig] Reference
"Why have you not been to school?" he said thickly. From Wordnik.com. [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference
Time that had powdered Mrs. Curtis 'head so thickly. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference
Meanwhile, toast two slices of good, thickly-cut bread. From Wordnik.com. [Big Girls, Small Kitchen: Lunch From the Farmers' Market] Reference
She butters the toast thickly and then douses it with syrup. From Wordnik.com. [Desilu, Three Cameras] Reference
Spread thickly on warm rye bread, it was ambrosia for the soul. From Wordnik.com. [Jay Weston: The Atkins "Schmaltz" Diet: Memories of Jewish Food!] Reference
Our house's mouth like morning breath, thickly caked with yesterday. From Wordnik.com. [Jenny Whistled Through The Mail Slot] Reference
And so thickly did the rain fall that it became almost as dark as night. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
We could not go out for the drifting sand, without being thickly veiled. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences] Reference
It was here that Jeanne came, thickly veiled, since her return from Nice. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Some ice-bound streams and ponds were thickly mantled in the white covering. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp Or, Lost in the Backwoods] Reference
The next morning the surface of the bed was thickly littered with dead earthworms. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
Larive will die with his breast more thickly plastered with decorations than an Odd. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He's pointing at the thickly forested mountains east of the tiny provincial capital. From Wordnik.com. [Rumors Of Bin Laden's Lair] Reference
When the Bobbsey twins, little and big, came out of school the snow was coming down more thickly. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins at School] Reference
Under the shade of the trees and mulched thickly by leaves, the forest floor usually stays moist. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
The professor began to notice a deposit of ash that lay thickly on the ground in sheltered places. From Wordnik.com. [On a Torn-Away World Or, the Captives of the Great Earthquake] Reference
The part of Ohio that I hailed from was not thickly settled, but wolves had been driven out long before. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
She let the tears run down her face and into the hair that now grew thickly just below her cheek bones. From Wordnik.com. [Hal and Estelle] Reference
Once the actor slouched back into his seat a collective embarrassment had spread thickly among the passengers. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty-One] Reference
The city is still thickly atmospheric, with bazaars, Byzantine churches and Ottoman mansions pretty much everywhere. From Wordnik.com. [Turkish Delight] Reference
So thickly did living and dead snails line the island highways "dat de jeeps er slipten," one Dutch scientist reported. From Wordnik.com. [Attack Of the Aliens] Reference
After a brisk run, he returned by chance through the Porte Maillot, then not nearly so thickly inhabited as it is to-day. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The treacherous journey took her through thickly padded bushes, distracted by the unbearable scent of a rose … she stopped. From Wordnik.com. [Honeybee] Reference
The cape dithered congruent to the flow of gusty air from the sea, and thickly gloved hands were held out in a gesture of calm. From Wordnik.com. [The Messenger, Chapter 1] Reference
It was grown up thickly with large trees and undergrowth, making it difficult to penetrate with troops, even when not defended. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The family followed, Rose and Ted and Jacqueline, and Ethel, thickly veiled, shepherding all but the tiniest of her ten children. From Wordnik.com. [Bobby's Last, Longest Day] Reference
The mountaintop views take in rumpled, thickly forested ridgelines and shadowed valleys all the way out to the glinting Tyrrhenian Sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Other Tuscany] Reference
To-day have we not fifteen provinces for the most part thickly peopled, and long since fully explored to the shores of the Arctic Ocean?. From Wordnik.com. [The Dominion in 1983] Reference
Once you spent half the morning going up and down the escalator so that you could see her over the thickly forested juniors 'casual wear. From Wordnik.com. [Shopgirls] Reference
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