The verdure had
thickened and its bright green stood out sharply against the brownish strips of winter rye trodden down by the cattle, and against the pale-yellow stubble of the spring buckwheat.
That perils had
thickened about him fast, and might thicken faster and faster yet, he of course knew now.
The crowd had
thickened in front, so that the lame man and the girl had come to a stand.
Authors have insisted on the necessity of classing varieties on a natural instead of an artificial system; we are cautioned, for instance, not to class two varieties of the pine-apple together, merely because their fruit, though the most important part, happens to be nearly identical; no one puts the swedish and common turnips together, though the esculent and thickened stems are so similar.
We see something of the same kind even in our domestic varieties, as in the thickened stems of the common and swedish turnip.
The herd, as the column spread and thickened, was like the endless flocks of the smaller birds, whose extended flanks are so often seen to heave up out of the abyss of the heavens, until they appear as countless as the leaves in those forests, over which they wing their endless flight.
But, as the body of the herd pressed more and more upon the open line of its defenders, and the dust thickened, so as to obscure their persons, there was, at each instant, a renewed danger of the beasts breaking through.
So that I had now a double wall; and my outer wall was
thickened with pieces of timber, old cables, and everything I could think of, to make it strong; having in it seven little holes, about as big as I might put my arm out at.
Her heart was set on performing her promise to Tom and Aunt Chloe, and she sighed as discouragements
thickened around her.
As the darkness
thickened, the eddying flakes grew more abundant, dancing before my eyes; and the cold of the air more intense.
However, little is known about the osmolality of diets that are
thickened for infants with the goal of improving the coordination of suction, breathing, and swallowing.