And consolidation of landholdings is hard, because of the thicket of family and legal disputes that invariably surrounds them.
The still waters of the water under a frond of stars. The still waters of your mouth under a thicket of kisses.
Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son.
He had flung away his hat in the thicket, a few paces distant.
But it was too late; the person was already in the thicket, night had descended, and Boulatruelle had not been able to catch up with him.
Scientists now use them to measure the climate in areas that would have been impractically small when sensors were more costly-say under individual plants rather than in a thicket.
She re-entered the thicket, searched the corners boldly, went as far as the gate, and found nothing.
I long to get down into that camp if it be only to scatter some Mingo dogs that I see lurking in the skirts of younder thicket of birch.
Abraham looked up, and there he saw a ram caught by its horns in a thicket .
On his way home, as he was riding through a green thicket, a hazel twig brushed against him and knocked off his hat. Then he broke off the twig and took it with him.
A raptor is hovering above a thicket in the hope of a takeaway meal, which reminds us that dinner time is approaching.
Any attempt to find a clear definition of a country soon runs into a thicket of exceptions and anomalies.
But when he had reached the outskirts of the wood, he heard from a thicket a cry as of some one in pain.
Organic chemistry is full of the most remarkable things, a monstrous and boundless thicket .
Where is the thicket? Gone. Where is the eagle? Gone.
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