1 Gerald had lived in Savannah long enough to acquire a viewpoint of the Coast--that all of the rest of the state was backwoods, with an Indian lurking in every thicket.
2 She rounded a thicket of pomegranate trees which were shaking bare limbs in the cold wind and saw him leaning on his axe, wiping his forehead with the back of his hand.
3 The huddled low wooden houses broke the plains scarcely more than would a hazel thicket.
4 They apologized and discussed the afternoon's game as they passed through the thicket of women's feet.
5 They were charming up there, huddled together in the cart and peering down at me like curious deer when they come out of the thicket to drink.
6 Ahead of me, in a plum thicket beside the road, I saw two boys bending over a dead dog.
7 He paused and turned his head quickly toward a thicket, and then bent his eyes suspiciously on their guide, who continued his steady pace, in undisturbed gravity.
8 In the center of the little island, a few short and stunted pines had found root, forming a thicket, into which Hawkeye darted with the swiftness of a deer, followed by the active Duncan.
9 When the party reached the point where the horses had entered the thicket which surrounded the blockhouse, they were evidently at fault, having lost those marks which, until that moment, had directed their pursuit.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 13 10 At that instant the thicket opened, and a tall and armed Huron advanced a few paces into the open space.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 13 11 While they yet hesitated in uncertainty, the form of the Indian was seen gliding out of the thicket.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 14 12 He was yet speaking, when a crashing sound was heard, and a cannon-ball entered the thicket, striking the body of a sapling, and rebounding to the earth, its force being much expended by previous resistance.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 14 13 Pursuing the direction given by this discovery, he entered the neighboring thicket, and struck the trail, as fresh and obvious as it had been before they reached the spring.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 21 14 A thicket of brush skirted its foot, and it became necessary to proceed through a crooked and narrow path.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 24 15 After running thus for a considerable distance, they finally upset the cart, dashing it with great force against a tree, and threw themselves into a dense thicket.