What is "thickets"

Usage examples of "thickets".

The track snaked between thickets of bush, the trees mainly euphorbia and acacia, some leather, leaved evergreens and wild olives, all laced with the parasitic growth of rope-thick lianas.

As we wound our way down deeper into the gorge it became hotter, occasional thickets of undergrowth hung drooping leaves in the windless air and there was an increasing sense of being shut in.

The Union men had penetrated so far that they were entangled in the forest and thickets, and nobody had come up to support them.

Little wild flowers were peeping up in the thickets, and now and then a bird, full throated, sang on a bough, indifferent to passing armies.

They were not far from Fredericksburg, but the country about them looked wild and lonely, despite the fact that nearly two hundred thousand men were moving somewhere in those shades and thickets, preparing for desperate combat.

The ancient forest had been cut away long since and the thin, light soil had produced a sea of scrub and thickets in its place, in which most of the houses were the huts of charcoal burners.

The scouts and hardy riflemen were now pressing through all the forests and thickets, like Indians trailing in the Wilderness.

There was not sufficient room on either the plank road or the pike for all the Confederate infantry, and masses were toiling through the dense thickets of bushes and briars and creeping vines.

It was assuming the proportions of a real battle, and with thickets and forests to obscure sight, Hooker might well believe that the whole Southern army was yet in front of him.

It seemed to Harry as they went on through the thickets of the Wilderness that the Union scouts would never discover them, but Northern troops on an open eminence of Hazel Grove had seen a long column moving away through the thickets and made report of it to the Northern generals.

Six of the regiments were composed of men born in Germany, or the sons of Germans, drawn from the great cities of the North, little used to the forests and thickets and having the stiffness of Germans on parade.

It was followed by a shout poured from thirty thousand throats, the guns in the turnpike fired a terrible volley straight into the Union camp, and then the whole army of Jackson, line upon line, rushed from the thickets and hurled itself upon its foe.

The shadows from the east had crept over the whole sky, and it was already dark among the dense thickets of the Wilderness.

The darkness, the flash of the rifles, the mutter of cannon, the blaze of gunpowder, the fierce shouts that rose now and then in the thickets, the foul odors, made him think that they had truly reached the infernal regions.

A man came through the thickets soon after midnight and moved with the greatest caution toward the hill on which the artillery was ranged.