But when you are lying down and sleeping, they will come forth from every thicket, and creep up to you.
Go into the thicket and lie down and sleep; I will soon do thy work.
Suddenly two robbers sprang out of the thicket, seized the mother and child, and carried them far away into the black forest, where no one ever came from one year's end to another.
While he was thus standing he saw a twelve great, wild men coming towards him,and as he believed they were robbers he pushed his barrow into the thicket, climbedup a tree, and waited to see what would happen.
A poor servant-girl was once traveling with the family with which she was in service, through a great forest, and when they were in the midst of it, robbers came out of the thicket, and murdered all they found.
Then it was once more evening, and he was so tired that he lay down in a thicket and fell asleep.
The aged king commanded him to drive his block out again next day, and as soon as morning came, he placed himself behind the dark gateway, and heard how the maiden spoke to the head of Falada, and then he too went into the country, and hid himself in the thicket in the meadow.
And when an old hare came running up towards them, he laid his gun on his shoulder, but the hare cried, dear huntsman, do but let me live, two little ones to thee I'll give, and sprang instantly into the thicket, and brought two young ones.
At midnight the maiden came creeping out of the thicket, went to the tree, and again ate one pear off it with her mouth, and beside her stood the angel in white garments.
So he bought beautiful dresses, pearls and jewels for his two step-daughters, and on his way home, as he was riding through a green thicket, a hazel twig brushed against him and knocked off his hat.
In front of the door he observed a bird which had caught itself in the thicket.
One day, when the trees were once more clothed in fresh green, the king of the country was hunting in the forest, and followed a roe, and as it had fled into the thicket which shut in this part of the forest, he got off his horse, tore the bushes asunder, and cut himself a path with his sword.
Close by it was a wilderness of trees and thicket; here the garden had been, and had stretched out to a great lake, which was now moorland.
Then the robbers, in terror, let her go, and she stood among them, a hideous monster; and as is the nature of frogs to do, she hopped up as high as her own size, and disappeared in the thicket.
Then a little bird in the thicket sang out clearly, and old Anthony thought of the minstrel's song.
In a few minutes they found themselves deep in a thicket, and could no longer see the boat or the shore.
From a thicket close by came three beautiful white swans, rustling their feathers, and swimming lightly over the smooth water.
Forth from the thicket tripped a Hindoo maid, light as a gazelle, beautiful as Eve.
