thickset trees. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a thickset hedge. ,a sky thickset with stars. ,a thickset young man. From Dictionary.com.
He pointed out a kind of thickset tower which crowned a pretty village set in orchards. From Wordnik.com. [Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6] Reference
She was dark, thickset, with a lowering countenance. From Wordnik.com. [Eaters Of The Dead]
He glanced from under his brows at the thickset man. From Wordnik.com. [When the Sleeper Wakes] Reference
Now a thickset man in a black coat comes rushing out. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
For a space the thickset man took not the slightest notice of. From Wordnik.com. [When the Sleeper Wakes] Reference
“You will very speedily have clothes,” said the thickset man. From Wordnik.com. [When the Sleeper Wakes] Reference
He was considerably under the average height, but thickset and strong. From Wordnik.com. [The Kentucky Ranger] Reference
McKay was a squat, thickset man, his hair tied in a tarred, ratty pigtail. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
He was peering over when a thickset, middle-aged man came up to watch him. From Wordnik.com. [The Murder of Busy Lizzie]
Behind him came a stout thickset man of heavy build, and gorgeously dressed. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
This was fully two hours after the thickset man first stepped upon the train. From Wordnik.com. [Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective Or, The Crime of the Midnight Express] Reference
One was a thickset man, with large black whiskers and corresponding eyebrows. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
Patron was a thickset grizzled man, with the square face not seen among Persians. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
The tumult of shouting grew louder, and the thickset man turned and listened also. From Wordnik.com. [When the Sleeper Wakes] Reference
The third member of the trio was a shortish, thickset man of extraordinary vigour. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Among the Anarchists] Reference
He was 50 but looked younger, a little thickset but muscular, in visibly good shape. From Wordnik.com. [The Stocking Strangler case] Reference
Bessos was thickset like his camels, war-scarred, burnt almost black with sun and wind. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
He was thickset but not fat; I judged him to be between thirty and thirty-five years old. From Wordnik.com. [A Town Like Alice]
He was some inches taller than his companion but his thickset build made him seem shorter. From Wordnik.com. [The Tiger in the Smoke]
The first came forward, a thickset middle-aged man in a decent drab tunic and shoulder-cloak. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
“Did there happen to be a middle-aged man in the bar, short and thickset, with grey hair?”. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret in Montmartre]
Eilmund was a thickset, dark, shaggy man past forty, very powerful of body, and sharp enough of mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Eyton Forest]
“They —” said the thickset man and stopped, and the flaxen-bearded man met his eye and went away. From Wordnik.com. [When the Sleeper Wakes] Reference
Hashim, a thickset, well-dressed bald man who spoke crisp English, told me he was an electrical engineer. From Wordnik.com. [War Stories: Road to Anarchy] Reference
The thickset man shrugged away from the wall as I warily came to a stop, and walked slowly into the street. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight]
She raised her eyes to see a thickset gentleman, dressed in an elaborate green-and-gold costume, dismounting. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
Note 1: groundhog, a grizzled thickset marmot (Marmota monax) chiefly of Alaska, Canada, and the northeastern U.S. From Wordnik.com. [Sonny Boy Williamson I (John Lee) Lyrics] Reference
He seemed older than his thirty-four years, and made of flimsy stuff compared to his thickset half-brother, Lord James. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
Their man was thickset, in his midsixties, with a shining bald head, an easy smile, and a magnificent, deep, rich voice. From Wordnik.com. ['Bring Me My Machine Gun'] Reference
Both his defense attorney and the public prosecutor are thickset Australian barristers who wear yellowing horsehair wigs. From Wordnik.com. [Blowing The Whistle] Reference
Mladic, a thickset 5-foot-7 brawler, boasted to a Belgrade magazine last month that the Americans didn't dare to arrest him. From Wordnik.com. [A Monster On The Loose] Reference
I would describe him as thickset, stocky rather than tubby, muscular rather than fat, though he did put on a bit of weight toward the end. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Headless Corpse]
Graham looking over his shoulder saw approaching a very short, fat, and thickset beardless man, with aquiline nose and heavy neck and chin. From Wordnik.com. [When the Sleeper Wakes] Reference
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