Shadows scuttled amongst the close-packed buildings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elric of Melnibone]

The close-packed hay did not once break away off her fork.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna Karenina] Reference

It reeked with the stench of close-packed, sweating bodies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan]

Green plants grew in close-packed rows on parts of the roof.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hole In Space]

When through the close-packed city, he swept from wall to wall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844] Reference

I swept your close-packed Praya and beached your best at Kowloon!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference

He saw mounted knights pushing through the close-packed mass of shouting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: The Holy War] Reference

Five tons of metal had smashed into a close-packed crowd ... yet they hoped.    From Wordnik.com.  [PROOF]

Thode turned in his chair to survey the close-packed avenues of low-hanging trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fifth Ace] Reference

It was a cityscape of close-packed buildings, all of the same cold cubistic design.    From Wordnik.com.  [A World Out of Time]

The slave trade had had long experience of how to keep alive a close-packed body of men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hornblower In The West Indies]

The revelers were close-packed but directionless, and Matteo was able to press between them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Asimov's Science Fiction]

Amid the close-packed, silent audience a smothered phrase rose to the ears of the interpreter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sacrifice] Reference

On through the close-packed throngs the Khorajis hurtled, leaving a crushed-down carpet of dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian]

She was soon pushed aside hard against a fence, and the close-packed crowd went streaming past her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother] Reference

They sliced into the close-packed forward ranks of the armored men; cut out of them two great gaps.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metal Monster] Reference

Through wheeling shadows and the close-packed bodies of enemies, he saw no trace of a living human.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shadowfane]

His limp body was promptly tramped into unconsciousness by the milling feet of the close-packed group.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zehru of Xollar] Reference

Beyond it are the grey outlines of the close-packed ridges which enclose the lower reaches of the Zhob and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference

Yet it was only the heat and sand stifling him, after all, and the close-packed bodies, and his parched throat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spirit Gate] Reference

In it are numerous and close-packed vessels, which run from the intestines to the great vessel and to the aorta.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Parts of Animals] Reference

The horsemen, on tired horses that wanted to draw breath, swerved away from the threat of the close-packed muskets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Waterloo]

Even inside the Dole plantations, the close-packed irrepressible pineapples could tear unprotected legs to ribbons.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Case Of Conscience]

"This is better than lying on one's back in hospital, sir, and better than dodging about in a close-packed transport.".    From Wordnik.com.  [With Marlborough to Malplaquet A Story of the Reign of Queen Anne] Reference

Bert was put in with Kurt because there was nowhere else for him to lay his bandaged head in that close-packed vessel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War in the Air] Reference

A great throng of people stood, sat and squatted, close-packed on the roof -- and without exception they were Negroes!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moon of Skulls]

The crowd had started slowly edging in, a close-packed semicircle about the four of them - five, if one counted Plopper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Project Pope]

If we bear in mind such an instruction as this it will help us to picture that close-packed sanguinary conflict upon which the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean] Reference

Forcing her way through the close-packed men, she half-dragged, half-carried the wounded man clear of the milling, stomping feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clan of the Cave Bear]

The heavy close-packed shelves seemed to press upon him, compelling his eyes again and again to that lumpen figure on its paper bier.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mind to Murder]

These poems differ from others as attar of roses differs from ordinary rose-water, the close-packed essence from the thin, diluted mixture.    From Wordnik.com.  [Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English Based on the Requirements for Admission to College] Reference