If the light flared again and the click sounded in the bushes, Brownie intended to go right into the thicket and get his picture before anybody else could carry it away with him.
One morning I picked up a newspaper and read an article with big headlines stating that the marshal, with eight deputies and a posse of thirty armed citizens, had the train robbers surrounded in a mesquite thicket on the Cimarron, and that it was a question of only a few hours when they would be dead men or prisoners.
,, His smile was a flash of white teeth in the thicket of the huge black beard.
It was not long before a wolf came trotting through the thicket towards him.
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.
Will threaded their way through a thicket, , then started up the slope to the low ridge where he had found his vantage point under a sentinel tree.
Just in front of him, he saw three beautiful white swans advancing towards him from a thicket.
As the night came on, our foolish fellow went so far into the thicket that it couldn't move either backward or forward; and even one who had eyes would have been unable to get out of that difficulty.
Then it was once more evening, and he was so tired that he lay down in a thicket and fell asleep.
Our single lamp shines, through cold and wet, On a bamboo- thicket sheathed in rain; But forgetting the sadness that will come with tomorrow, Let us share the comfort of this farewell wine.
--three musket-shots flashed out of the thicket.
We were now at the margin of the thicket.
Soon we could hear their footfalls as they ran and the cracking of the branches as they breasted across a bit of thicket.
Then I came to a long thicket of these oaklike trees--live, or evergreen, oaks, I heard afterwards they should be called--which grew low along the sand like brambles, the boughs curiously twisted, the foliage compact, like thatch.
The crews raced for the beach, but the boat I was in, having some start and being at once the lighter and the better manned, shot far ahead of her consort, and the bow had struck among the shore-side trees and I had caught a branch and swung myself out and plunged into the nearest thicket while Silver and the rest were still a hundred yards behind.
In the thicket he found only frosted leaves and green stalks coated with snowflakes and ice.
I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, , Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, , But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet , Wherewith the seasonable month endows The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild; 、、 White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine; ; Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves; ; And mid-May's eldest child, , The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, , The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.
Now it came to pass that as he was going by a thicket a little man stepped out, and called to him, "Whither away, merry brother?
The owl flew into the thicket, and directly afterwards there came out of it a crooked old woman, yellow and lean, with large red eyes and a hooked nose, the point of which reached to her chin.
It was not long before a wolf came trotting through the thicket towards him.
