The other was tall, with a thick gray beard and large belly. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

He adjusts the thick, round lenses on his face and scratches at his cheek. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The clouds were still thick, but they were breaking, and pale strips of blue appeared between them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He was donning the heavy space gloves in preparation for his term of duty here, and his thick eyebrows drew close together. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

To get to the back teeth, I have to reach into my mouth with my fingernails and scrape away the thick, yellow crust. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t ashamed of my thick lips and broad nose and coarse hair. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

One had a big red flag with a thick blue cross outlined by white. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Not only people but traffic—bullock carts, jutkas, cars and bicycles, more than we had ever seen, many times thicker than in the town around the tannery. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wolf’s pelt was thick and shaggy, but when the wind blew along the ice no fur could keep the chill out. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The whole room was suddenly filled with a thick white fog, so that Harry could see nothing but the face of Dumbledore, who was standing beside him. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I don’t think, I just jump; I hurl my body on top of the dog, wrapping my arms around its thick neck. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The ropes of weed tying the hostages to the statue were thick, slimy, and very strong. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The old man nodded over to a spiral notebook, a beat-up thermos, and a bunch of stubby pencils bundled together with a thick rubber band. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The woodsmoke grew stronger, and he passed a stand of thick pines and was there. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

When Billy thought of them he always pictured young guys with glasses and attache cases sitting primly on the A train and thumbing through a thick book. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I met Golomb, he took out a thick three-ring binder filled with the mountain of letters he had received over the years from satisfied customers. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Things are going a little faster than I’d hoped, sweetheart,” she said, and her voice was thick, thick in a way that made Conor’s stomach twist even harder. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

As her daughter later described her, Emma was pretty, with gray eyes, a clear complexion, a nice high forehead, a firm chin, a straight nose, and beautiful long, thick brown hair. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sees me waiting for him on his steps and says I must have a head as thick as a coconut; didn’t he already tell me that the paper wasn’t worth nothing? Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

They made their way to a grove of bushes off to the right, the breeze just cool enough to provide some respite from the thick, soupy heat of bodies inside. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

On his way, he stopped and changed into robes of thick leather. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s almost as good as my mum’s. My mum’s is thicker than what yours is. I expect you roll it harder.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

But Fermi had a hard time remembering his new name and felt absurd pronouncing it with his thick Italian accent. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her fingers and palms became damp, shrinking at the ghost’s thick short hair like an animal’s coat, which slides against warm solidity as human flesh slides against muscles and bones. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Engel patted the thick wad of paper folded next to her ashtray, reminding me. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Even when within a very short distance of the manor-house, you could see nothing of it, so thick and dark grew the timber of the gloomy wood about it. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I want some twilled silesia, a paper of number nine needles, and two yards of narrow lavender ribbon. Have you got your thick boots on, and something warm under your cloak?” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’re moving,” he said, his voice thick with exhaustion, not believing it. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes fastened on the thick velvet collar, the fair skin, the high-tone voice. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I just want you to be safe,” he said, his voice thick. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was his own mum talking, her voice so thick and low it was almost impossible to understand. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Ernest did, and he saw the thick black smoke pouring from the chimneys. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The outer shell was the crust, and it was about eighteen miles thick. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

When the waters receded, there were chest-high watermarks; our desks and chairs were covered with thick, foul-smelling mud. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The top of his head was shaved so close it was almost bald, but his face was covered in a thick curly black beard. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

She had the glummest face Harry had ever seen, half-hidden behind lank hair and thick, pearly spectacles. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

But Jamie had given up helping and instead was breaking thick hunks of crust off the disheveled pies still hanging around the dessert table. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

It fell flat on the big vat of lard and by noontime during the summer the grease had softened to a thick soup. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

As expected, some lines of the letter were crossed out with thick black ink. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

My best friend’s hair was like a bush of thick black wires. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

At thirty weeks her skin thins, and her hair gets thicker. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The Turks carry large plastic sacks and thick sticks. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

He adjusted his bright red cap in the mirror, ran a hand through his thick beard. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her thick black hair hung loosely over her shoulders, partly covering her face. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her Pakistani accent is thick, even though she’s lived in the United States for almost three decades. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He was a big man, with wide shoulders, brawny arms, and a thick neck. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The trees in their ordered rows gnarled and black and the fallen limbs thick on the ground. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

She wore a thicker, darker smock than the one Mom would come home wearing. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her gardening gloves, still smudged with the last soil she’d ever lifted; a box of her favorite tea, which had long ago lost its peppermint scent; the thick candy-cane-striped kneesocks she wore in winter. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He was wearing long Quidditch robes in thick horizontal stripes of bright yellow and black. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The bubbling pots of water made the air in the kitchen thick and hard to breathe. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soldiers ran under the bomb and tossed down a thick pile of cotton mattresses—low-tech protection in case of a potentially disastrous fall. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d made it from Miss Lilian’s leftovers, thick and hearty, a treat for all of us, served with chunks of homemade brown bread and cheese. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He had now no hat and his thick brown hair was crowned with autumn leaves. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The guy who steps out looks a couple of years older than me, and is almost a foot taller, with thick black hair to his shoulders and black-rimmed glasses. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

This shirt was thick and smelled sweet, like ripe fruit. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Nin shifted her weight and glanced over her shoulder, into the thick of the jungle. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She laughed at this, a sad, thick laugh. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

She had groped her way along, fingering the bark of trees, finding out on which side the moss grew the thickest, moving slowly from tree to tree. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He swung a leg behind Mama and sat down on the step above, digging his thumbs into the thick flesh below her neck. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trees were so thick that we hardly ever got views, and when we did get views it was of infinite hills covered in more trees. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

When we get out of the car, Dray gives Kasim a package—a thick yellow envelope. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Moreover, his hair was not just on top of his head—where thick hair is supposed to be. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was note-paper also in the drawer, thick white sheets, for rough writing, and the note-paper of the house, with the crest, and the address, and visiting cards, ivory-white, in little boxes. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was a short, handsome man with a thick mustache, and I was with him for the last year of his life, living in an apartment just below his. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gasped as she watched an Ashanti grab her mother and try to put thick iron cuffs on her mother’s wrists. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sierra reached the thick metal door that led to the archival basement and turned the handle ever so gently. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Periodically, his free hand floated up and his thick fingers bat­ted at something in the air. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t say I was thick with good and bad and love and hate and truth and lies. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Among them were the mighty water monsters, giant lizards whose toes were as thick as the trunks of fully grown pine trees. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

They were still in the thick of town. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Along the banks of the Wooded Island ice two feet thick locked Olmsted’s bulrush and sedge in cruel contortions. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The frosting is thick and perfect and smooth. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Above them, in the cloudless sky, stars were scattered as thick as sand. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cassiopeia might be able to learn a bit of finger crocheting if they worked straight through dinner and used extra thick wool—and Beowulf was very close to being able to do a cartwheel. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The air was thick with humid summer heat which seemed to rise off the grass like steam. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Her heart caught as her eyes found a notably large green book, thicker than any other she’d seen thus far. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Shot and dart fell thick; siege-towers crashed or blazed suddenly like torches. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

As the snow began to melt, the ground around their base became so thick with mud and slush that supply trucks couldn’t get through to them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

From my high vantage, I could see a thick, oily smoke slowly filling the bottom of the well. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Love, thick and dark as Alaga syrup, eased up into that cracked window. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has gel in his hair and a Clark Gable mustache above his thick lips. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s exactly what we found with families at Memorial when we were in the thick of it with Gus’s treatment,” his dad said. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

We made a sling for the baby inside my big armor, and rode back into the thickest part of the fighting. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The interior was thick, almost smoky, and damp. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Cutting off a nice thick slab of salt pork, I roasted it, and with a piece of cold com bread made a sandwich. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The strongest there is! It’s as thick as your finger! But why? What are you going to do?” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Death is like an explosion,” Miss Sadie said, her accent thick, like the humid air that hovered heavy around me. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I was the only one who was thick enough to take that song seriously!” said Harry bitterly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

His older brother worked up around the face where the coal dust was the thickest. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He wore dark laced shoes made from a kind of canvas, with thick, textured soles that Claire assumed prevented him from slipping on the wet deck of the vessel. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A bright streak of blood stains one thick strand of my hair, painting a dark red streak into it. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

When Julia arrives after the show, she brings three thick books, one pencil, and something she calls Magic Markers. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The street was loud and raw, with tension as thick as fog. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She imagines him extending his thick neck to look into the house, the coat on the rack, the crumbs of bread on the kitchen table. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A thick fog covered everything beyond the edge of the water. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

O’Brien was a large, burly man with a thick neck and a coarse, humorous, brutal face. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She looked down into his little near-sighted eyes, full of tears behind the thick lenses. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

The man in the gray suit leaned closer to Zane, one thick- gloved hand still resting on the knob of the propane valve. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Those who still had faces wore thick beards crusted with ice and frozen snot. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The carpenter held the name between his thick tarry fingers and murmured, “You miss a man so much.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Out the open window behind him, a thick blanket off fog rolled peacefully across the sky. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Immediately she began to pull at us, to drag and push us down the path toward town, yelling so frantically in her thick Irish accent that none of us could understand. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The fruitcake stayed perfect in the tin and the apple juice was fizzy but not totally undrinkable and the dried apricots were fine, as was the huge thick slab of chocolate wrapped in brown paper. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tiny airplane drops him off in a jungle thick with green leaves and palm and banana trees—what I imagine the Ecuadorian rain forest must look like. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She frowns at him but says nothing even though he makes thick slices. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Black blood ran slow and thick from his open wound. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The amount of information in human DNA, if written out in ordinary language, would occupy a hundred thick volumes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a night when the thick fog drifted through the streets and I could not see more than an arm’s length before me, and everything seemed unreal, as if I were asleep and dreaming. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Be-tween the thick ankle cuffs, dragging heavily as he made his way slowly from the stage, was a chain. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They float close above me in thick, solid folds of billowy white sheets. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Yo,” I said, “I hear that kind of steak is sick, Rondo. It’s supposedly like this thick.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But once he had climbed over the fence and begun to trudge up the first field, the grass was thick and wet. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I use the frozen custard recipe she’s brought with her to make a thick, creamy mixture. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The clouds hung thick and heavy as a priest’s black wool robe. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

A sleeping young woman is propped up on silk pillows stuffed with feathers; a quilted blanket laced with thick gold ribbons lies over her. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He towered over her, a great beast of a man, as big as Yai but with an even thicker neck and arms that were muscular and brown from working in the sun. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He opened his saddlebags and took out a thick rope covered with blue velvet and looped at either end. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tialys took off again, and then Lyra reached the tree and sat down on one of the thick roots. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

We dreamed the wealthy family would take us in, ladle thick soup into porcelain bowls, and let us warm our frozen toes by the fire. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Chantal’s clock says it’s three thirty in the morning, and Bad Leg’s voice eases through the locked windows and thick curtains to hover above my air mattress. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

At the beginning of winter most of us came down with a bad cough that shook our ribs and rattled our heads, which responded by leaking thick mucus into our scarves and onto our sleeves. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She looked at him with bright golden eyes, and he ruffled her thick grey fur. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Sometimes on the weekends there would be what might be called excessive traffic, but I confined my driving to the weekdays and it did not get thick until I was close to Southern California. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Roy’s father clicked open his briefcase and removed a thick manila folder. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sills were dusty and the corners were spun thick with spiderwebs studded with dead flies. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

They headed for the side of the house where the bushes were thick. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, the deep blue eyes framed by thick lashes that stared straight into a little girl’s heart and the perfect miniature hands extended, appealingly asking, “Please, won’t you be my mama?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plaid suits with large collars, the bushy mustaches and overdue haircuts, and the thick knotted ties were all obviously stylish back when he went to Oxford but looked a little funny through contemporary eyes. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The ice on the floor evaporated and quickly turned into thick fog that rose to the ceiling, covering the rocks’ eyes. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

His tone was so sharp and thick with annoyance, maybe even anger, that I released the paper into his hands. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

The wind was gusting, and the flickering orange light reflected dully off steel helms, thick beards, and unsmiling eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

At breakfast, a boy with a mop of thick black hair walks in like some cowboy from an American film. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I put together four thick sandwiches with cold cuts, American cheese, and lots of mustard and mayonnaise. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to see you now, Conor,” she said, and again her voice was thick and her eyes were wet. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The trees here were thicker than down the road, which made this spot perfect. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He had dark circles under his eyes and was wearing the glasses with thick black frames that he usually only put on to read. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

On the terrace, Lissa waited, dressed for the weather in a thick red sweatshirt and blue jeans. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Limestone slabs rimmed by thick moss and grasses glare whitely in the sun. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

A slave handed him a pair of thick horsehair mittens, and he pulled them on, never so much as looking at the man. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Elephant hide is thick as bark on an ancient tree, but a claw-stick can pierce it like a leaf. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

His face puffed up, his neck got thicker, his voice grew weak. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Built into the great wall, it was a deep tunnel that revealed just how thick the walls were. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Anyhow, we found a track with a good, thick hedge along one side and we decided to follow that. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally a thick voice behind him said, "Seven hells, it's the dwarf," and the cage jerked to a sudden stop and hung there, swinging slowly back and forth, the ropes creaking. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But for his efforts, he was usually given an extra bowl of soup from the very bottom of the kettle, where it was thickest. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

They spent some time on the main street, walking down to the foot, where the crowds were just as thick as they had been the night before. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wild wind must have been bringing clouds overhead, because suddenly the moon was covered, and darkness swept over the whole landscape—thick clouds, too, for no gleam of moonlight shone through them. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flash of something caught my eye and I looked right, to an area within the thick rushes of the marsh where a tidal pool of water had gathered. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Ms. Stanley takes the thick envelope without opening it and nods. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was manywhite and thick and textured, paint climbing on itself as if it wanted to get away from the canvas, away from the floor underneath the canvas, even. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Just as thick? As thick as at ten o’clock the night before?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“This will be warm,” she says, placing her fingers inside a thick navy cap with yellow stripes on the brim. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But as they drew near to the further gate, Frodo saw a dark ill-kept house behind a thick hedge: the last house in the village. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

London’s air is, on many days, pea-soup thick, the coal smoke from factories mixing with fog. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Doxy’s wings are thick, curved and shiny, much like a beetle’s. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked for nearly half an hour, deeper and deeper into the forest, until the path became almost impossible to follow because the trees were so thick. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

His dark hair almost covered thick black eyebrows that shadowed a thin face. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“What’s happen — ?” Ron gasped, staring through the windshield, and Harry looked around just in time to see a branch as thick as a python smash into it. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

We sit quietly until Baba returns, happy that he’s managed to exchange gold jewelry for a thick wad of Turkish money. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

The thick tarp wasn’t much, but at least it would give her something to block the chalk-dust phantoms with if they caught her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I pulled forward, and the wheels rolled easily over the thick grass of the yard and onto the blacktop. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The milk here tastes different and feels thicker somehow. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Outside Hudson’s Department Store the crowd was ten thick, jostling to get in the newfangled revolving doors. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

An arrow from a thick red felt-tip marker pointed at one of the tiny faces crowded into the frame. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Then the boys were issued debit cards—thick black cards with their names printed in silver letters. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The singer's voice was muffled by the thick walls, yet Tyrion knew the verse. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The royal apartments were in Maegor's Holdfast, a massive Square fortress that nestled in the heart of the Red Keep behind walls twelve feet thick and a dry moat lined with iron spikes, a castle-within-a-castle. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

By the time they found the lions, two had run off, but three remained in the thick grass and brush. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet the trees were tall with sturdy trunks, packed tightly together, the canopy up above thick with leaves. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

She’s wearing thick glasses, a worn-in maroon sweater, and a pair of cuffed jeans, looking decidedly out of place in the halls of Buckingham Palace. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Our basement is made with thick walls of concrete, but I know after a storm like this there will be water. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

We are scrubbed and in our donated clothes, the girls in dresses with white pinafores and thick stockings, the boys in knickers that button below the knee, white dress shirts, neckties, thick wool suit coats. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Dad’s head was bandaged and there was a thick patch over his eye. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

A pile of thick brown ropes fell out. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could feel both the path Pet’s words were taking and the way her fear was trying to cover it up with thick briars of denial. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

We’d been passed out so long in the cave that night had fallen, but the woods were thick and the full moon was somewhat obstructed. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

She righted herself and now her hands were thick with mud and a red trickle of blood patterned her leg. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As I near, I swallow hard, my nerves making my throat go thick. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Soon they are bent almost double to avoid getting entangled in the thick canopy of branches overhead. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Her hair was corn yellow and bound in a thick ribbon. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thick fog lay in the valley below, a smoldering cauldron of white from which only the treetops protruded, stark and Dantesque. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He turned the thick red stem between his thumb and pointer finger, then sniffed: tea and dirt and cane syrup. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

His first instinct was to call it a snake, a name largely attributed to its thick serpentine body and dark brown scales. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

One of them was holding a feather brush; the other carried, in either hand, what looked at a distance like three or four pieces of thick rope. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a pale guy with thick, black-framed glasses that made his eyes look tiny. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The walls were hung with orange lamps, old rusted anchors, and thick ropes. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I’ve never tasted fire, but the smoke from it makes my mouth feel thick. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

On the walls above the ironing boards were strips of thick, bright red paper with poems and sayings on them. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air felt thick and humid, and my neck tingled like someone was watching me. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Obiora was a year younger, veiy light- skinned, with honey-colored eyes behind thick glasses, and his mouth turned up at the sides in a perpetual smile. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her dirk was gone as well, and all her throwing axes; instead she had a sword in hand, a short sword with a broad thick blade, almost like a butcher’s cleaver. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

This was why, in lean times, they fed their children the thick, rich broth of the Bog, hoping that the Bog would make them strong. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Also clothing, aspirin, antibiotics, hand lotion, thick cotton diapers, batteries for our radio, and long letters. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Darwin’s calculations showed that the toil of earthworms might add a laver of soil an inch to an inch and a half thick in a ten year period. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

The man’s thick black hair looks lacquered to his skull. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The air felt thick and charged, too thick to breathe. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see Franz the glocken boy pick up a dead mouse and gently tuck it inside a wall hole and then carefully place thick, green leaves over the opening. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

This was true before they came for her baby, before the Tower—one measure of wheat would become two; fabric worn thin as paper would become thick and luxurious in her hands. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The whole garden became a thick underbrush, like an abandoned town, through which one could scarcely walk without slashing a path with a machete. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fabric looked like plain cotton, but she felt as warm as if she had put on a thick fur. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

"Robert," Ned said in a voice thick with grief, "you must not do this. Don't die on me. The realm needs you." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Snape was muttering incantations, pointing his wand at the wrist of the hand, while with his left hand he tipped a goblet full of thick golden potion down Dumbledore’s throat. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Then the jungle closes in on me, forming thick walls. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyrion only wished he could as easily make city walls twice as tall and three times as thick. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I asked the man, to break the silence shooting up around me on all sides, thick as jungle grass. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I tried to open the windows to get the smell out, but they only opened three inches, and the air outside was still thick and hot. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Ben is right beside me, and we both press our bellies against a thick ledge lining a huge black square hole. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

They were very good cigarettes, very thick and well-packed, with an unfamiliar silkiness in the paper. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“I scour the bottom levels trying to help you find your singer, while all the while both of you are up here, thick as thieves.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We only could find thin twigs under the brush which wouldn’t burn very long, but we found many, and two thicker branches from the lower parts of a bush that seemed dry. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His voice was thick with tears, but not yet stripped of defiance. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The star sat on the cloud beside him, wearing the robe she had borrowed from the woman in the inn, with her broken leg stretched out on the thick mist in front of her. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Please be careful,” he said, his voice thick. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

On Zenilman’s map the neighborhoods of East and West Baltimore, on either side of the downtown core, tend to be thick with black stars. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, the ground was thick black mud, but that seemed to be the price you paid for burn morels. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

When you walked through the orchards, the air was thick with the sickly-sweet smell of fruit rotting on the ground. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stirred the water all the time with a big wooden spoon, and sifted in the meal until the kettle was full of a thick, yellow, bubbling mass. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another voice: “Man, thick girls are fine. I don’t know what’s wrong with you.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We’re supposed to have bacon, too, the thick kind that I would marry if it was legal, but there wasn’t any bacon in the box. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

There were application forms, twenty pages long, and thick, densely printed admission handbooks from Edinburgh and London whose methodical, exacting prose seemed to be a foretaste of a new kind of academic rigor. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

There was no sun, only a mass of thick grey cloud, lowering over the countryside, and still, close, thundery air. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

They were infinitely flexible, and about as long as her arm, thicker where they joined the head, and quite powerful enough to crush her skull, she guessed. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He veered off the road and the car screeched as it ran into the thick undergrowth of the bush. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

But Tall Andras rubbed his hand across his thick blond beard, looked across the marketplace to where Water Claire stood fingering ribbons at a stall, and said to his mates, “She could be wed.” Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They all wore the nondescript clothes of sailors—roughspun trousers, boots, thick wool coats and hats. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

When the hermit came in, the whole room was suddenly absolutely thick with the smell of goats, just like Chrissie said. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Someone was standing in the doorway: A woman in a thick winter coat, holding a hunting rifle under one arm. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

His smiling face without the thick glasses looked funny. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The night was black—that thick darkness that belongs only in backcountry, where the houses are few and the streetlights fewer, where starlight goes unchallenged. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Finally, Melissa saw a big green sign for the Bronx Zoo with a thick arrow pointing to the right. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Some were thick, and some were so slim that only a clip was needed to hold them together. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They aimed it directly at the thickest part of the fortress wall and packed it full of gunpowder. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

He taught me how to break the hold, where the fingers were weakest and the bones in my arm strongest, so that after a few minutes I could cut through even his thick fingers. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The air was thick with the smells of roasting meat and curdled, fermented mare's milk. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Although the mosquitoes are thick tonight and the bus would no doubt offer some refuge, I decide not to bed down inside Fairbanks 142. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know,” she said even more softly, looking down at the thick cuff on her arm, her shoestring bracelet, which was now spangled with bits of shell and tiny feathers. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The ground was so thick I had to walk slowly as I let myself take in each new landscape, checking each place big enough to fit a person. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It happened when the camaradas hurriedly set out to clear the area for their campsite, cutting away the thick vegetation and brushing aside the dead leaves. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

My eyes scan the hateful phrases written in thick, crooked lines—sloppy writing that screams Go Home, Terrorists, Towelheads, and bad words so terrible that I squeeze my eyelids shut tight. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I was so excited that my flower exploded, the petals bursting through the wires like thick tentacles, knocking my sisters' cages to the floor, and stretching between us like an octopus creature. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“What is this place?” she asks, her voice kinda thick. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

His eyes were clear, of the pale sweet blue of cornflowers, his thick mouth hung open, drooling a little. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The frost feathers holding me up, it became apparent, were maybe five inches thick and had the structural integrity of stale com bread. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I laughed just as Victoria walked up, her thick red mane blowing in the wind. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Grace grabbed the edge of the floating table and gave her answer in a thick, slurred voice. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a balcony on the second floor that seems to have a rail of thick roots in place of iron. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Real thick fog. You couldn’t see nothing out there.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The smoke in the hall was thicker than it had been moments before. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s something nice about those thick black arrows: sour here, salty there, like there’s a right place for everything. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Stella’s thick, coarse hair never seemed to want to grow much past her ears. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Her hair, which Henrietta once spent hours combing and braiding, is frizzy, with thick mats that stop just below the five-foot mark behind her. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Roger passes me on his way to the office, and the trail of red he leaves behind is so thick I feel as though I should be able to touch it. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I asked in Miss Sadie’s Hungarian accent, making my voice thick and husky. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“No man ever wore a scarf as warm as his daughter’s arm around his neck,” said Patrick in his thick Irish brogue. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Frank stands up, wraps Byrd into a thick hug. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He has a thick book tucked under his arm and is juggling another cup of coffee and what might be a bagel. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The short walls are covered with messages scrawled in thick marker, big sloppy hearts and dirty words. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Because it was long and thick and bushy, they would charge a dollar more. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“It really is a bit too thick,” the Head Mistress of Eton was saying to the Director of Crematoria and Phosphorus Reclamation. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gracious me, this packet is thick; I’ve got less than ten minutes to prepare all the scenes and I’ve barely made it past the character descriptions. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Frodo now led the way, northward as near as he could guess, among the stones and boulders lying thick at the bottom of the great ravine. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

She adjusted the headlamp around her forehead, the thick elastic band pulling at her hair. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The air itself was gray and heavy, thick with too much moisture. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The hair on his head was as thick and oiled as an otter’s pelt. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Balthamos, being a dæmon, had taken the form of a large snow white dog with black eyes, thick fur, and tight-curled tail, and he snarled so fiercely that the real dogs kept their distance. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The width was about six feet, and the walls were at least two feet thick. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I fired, the black powder charge in my gun threw up such a thick fog of blue smoke that I couldn’t see through it. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first the tail was very thin, but then it became thicker and brighter, glowing red and yellow in the dark sky. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stared at her eight thick braids of unpressed hair, pencils shoved in the plait above her ear. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took her daughter’s thick black hair in her hands and kneaded it with one hand, brushing it with the other. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But the narrator did have a thick British accent. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

You couldn't see farther than fifteen feet before the mist became too thick. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

His thick legs catapulted him at the girl. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I could hide in the cave which I had stored with food and water, for it was surrounded by thick brush and the mouth of the ravine could only be reached from the sea. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Shainmark takes a scone and passes the plate to Mama, then butters her pastry with the thick cream. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Dad had devised a shortcut: an enormous skewer, eight feet tall, of thick iron. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Omar would have laughed at me for picking up such a heavy tome, but choosing thick books meant I could hold on to them longer before I needed to exchange them. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He ran his fingers through his thick grey hair. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The grass was wet and thick near the stream and they made their way up the opposite slope, looking for drier ground. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lenses were so thick they made Lori’s eyes look big and bugged out, like fish eyes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The boy had a head of thick curly red hair and a nose that looked a whole lot like a bird’s beak. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The soup is possible to eat if he doesn't stop to smell it, doesn't stop to think about his grandmother's soup, her thick beef-and-barley soup, and the crusty bread to sop up the hearty broth. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Reek could see it in his mouth, the curl of those thick lips, the way the cords stood up in his neck. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Shawn fingered the thick steel, which I was sure he could tell was not cheap at all. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

When he found what he was looking for, Cabot lugged the thick, heavy book to the nearest table and sat down, looking over his shoulder as if he was doing something secretive or wrong. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

On the water the haze was so thick it was like trying to inhale wet cotton. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His progress was very slow, through the cornfield, the thick stalks bunched together and got in his way, and he had to shove them back with his arms. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The world Roz had known was now covered in a thick layer of snow. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

From on high, it would just look like the forest had an empty space, a misshapen wound snaking through thick growth. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She laid Campbell Junior down on the rug by the fireplace, a clean diaper under his fat face, and he was asleep by time she came back downstairs, carrying a thick book. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She came back a few minutes later and placed a thick file of papers on the counter. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I came to a clear space: the floor of the valley was thick with darkness, but the pond shone as round and clear as a mirror. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Along the bank we were almost fully exposed to the sun, though the thick woods continued to stretch for miles around us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It's right at the edge of the wood, but the bushy foliage is so thick down low I can easily observe the Career camp without being spotted. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“We can bed him up real thick, and try to keep him off his feet. Grass hay only and no grain. And no work.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Eleanor’s little car stumbled and bounced, reluctant to go farther into these unattractive hills, where the day seemed quickly drawing to an end under the thick, oppressive trees on either side. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I open the door and find Master Crofts dressed in his thick wool cassock, but looking rather blue-lipped from the cold. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He measured Tree-ear’s feet carefully and plaited several layers of straw for the thick, sturdy soles. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Kabuo Miyamoto rose in the witness box so that the citizens in the gallery saw him fully—a Japanese man standing proudly before them, thick and strong through the torso. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He woke to the sound of voices and crept to die door of his cell,.but the wood was too thick and he could not make out the words. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Here you are,” said the manager, who had climbed a set of steps to take down a thick, black-bound book. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

They had been walking for over twenty minutes now, the woods thick and dark despite the daylight that must be approaching outside it. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the top’s covered by thick clouds and I can’t spot the city. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The mob became a thick wall, not about to let the situation die down. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

In some way my journey was like that of the moon—although I had even more thick clouds coming my way to make my spirit dull. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

He meant that we call sove-snow, a thick, wet fall, the best of news to me. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Hell, I was in the thick of it. In the menagerie itself. I was the show’s vet.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I tried to see through the thick darkness that clung to the river, searching out the opposite shore. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Honey got to her feet and walked smartly out of the room, but was back in thirty seconds carrying a thick book. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the light of the fire, the waxy leaves and thick branches stood out black. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The food was a thick soup of vegetables, beans and barley, and it filled Tristran and contented him. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Its walls were solid stone, so thick that he could hear nothing of the outside world. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The air was thick with the smell of etching acids, hot iron, and sweat. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had a thick chest and powerful arms and legs, and he could throw any man to the ground. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cast on me a glance of surprise; but without answering, he cut a thick slice from his loaf, and gave it to me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The only constant is my hair, which is always thick and straight, cut in such a way that if surfacing from a dive, my bangs would fall to my lower lip. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

They found Khal Drogo seated before a square window- less temple with thick mud walls and a bulbous dome like some immense brown onion. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I took a few moments to visualize a thick round glass tube leading from my hand up and into the basket like a funnel. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She sat on the heap of skins that he used for sleeping while he poked the ashes into a red glow and then added a thick piece of oak branch. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The air was thick and smoky and a crust had formed atop his porridge when a woman’s voice behind him said, “Theon Greyjoy.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Root nodded, twisting a thick cigar into the hole beneath his nose. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

A thick red carpet sucks at the soles of Werner’s brogues; electric bulbs burn in a chandelier above the table; roses twine across the wallpaper. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then more screams filled the air, which suddenly seemed very thick. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The wound was thick and long and warm. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The thick, green leaves formed a bowl around her. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As daylight seeped through thick curtains of haze, a new pain arrived and gradually worsened until it could not be ignored. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Once the faja is no longer holding up my anaco, it falls to the ground, the thick, dark cotton pooling at my bare feet. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only were there a dozen frost-covered Christmas trees and thick streamers of holly and mistletoe crisscrossing the ceiling, but enchanted snow was falling, warm and dry, from the ceiling. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He got up and headed out of the cabin and down to a cluster of trees whose thick branches touched and tangled together to make a dense overhang. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The wind fanned the fire, causing it to flare up, and I saw it carried its thick body close to the ground, legs out to the side, like a lizard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The wasi was sturdy, built of tightly stacked stones with a thick thatched roof, but it could not protect us from the creeping fingers of the cold night air. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Her fingers are long and tapered; her wedding and engagement rings have been welded together into one thick band. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

His body was heavy and thick with hurt. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rope was thick in my hands, and I could feel the holy prayers that it held. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

To pretend there was an impenetrably thick glass wall between us in the one class where we were forced together. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The soup was thick with chunks of boiled beef and dried fish and dark green onugbu leaves. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

They retreat to their three rooms, to their three separate beds, to their thick mattresses and pillows and fitted sheets. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was as tall as her chest, thinner at the top and thicker at the bottom, carved with a border of knots and loops. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He poured it into the strongest container he could find, a thick glass beaker. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sickly gray skin resembles an elephant's trunk with thick hair poking out. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The soldier pines and sentinels wore thick white coats, and icicles draped the bare brown limbs of the broadleafs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But one morning she announced that she would wait no more, and the seeds went into the ground that day, followed by biweekly applications of the thick black fertilizer she concocted in the evenings. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Each of the flanking booths had a small pile of onions on it, and two thick packages wrapped in cloth sat on Mama’s cart, probably fish she had traded onions for. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Inside was a waxed paper parcel containing a thick roast beef sandwich. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Curses bubbled out of her mouth and blood with it, thick. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lyons reached into the safe and pulled out a document that was sealed inside a thick plastic sheet. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Heavy branches stretched out almost at right angles to the thick trunks and gave Nhamo the idea of making a platform. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

King Walker made him sprinkle Arm & Hammer soda on them before he put on the thick socks they gave him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s an eyelash right there,” I said, pointing to one of the thick lenses. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Another soldier gave me a pair of wooden shoes and a blue-and-gray-striped prisoner uniform made out of a thick canvas material. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me?” he said in a thick Russian accent. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

But his voice was not strong enough to penetrate the thick wall. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

But a hundred yards from the orphanage, in a thick patch of weeds and brush by the side of the windy highway, something else did. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

His eyelashes were so long and thick they looked artificial. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Either that or find something thick and suitable for blocking up both my nose holes. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

And then you’re being wheeled into that room as your family tries to hear you through thick glass. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Twenty-five years earlier, I had stood behind that same window, thick rain dripping down the panes and my breath fogging up the glass. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Their friendship had always been thicker than blood. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Claire looked down at her own feet, encased in thick wool socks under her coarse leather sandals. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But they were too far away and the foliage of the tree was too thick. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was like her way of passing the cooking torch so that I could do my thing in the kitchen without having to open up one of those lame, thick, usually way too girly cookbooks. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Kabuo turned to take in the snowfall, and she noticed the thick sinews in the left side of his neck above where his shirt was buttoned. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

On the ground behind him lay a thick mace. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The place was thick with the odor compounded of paint, linseed oil, and turpentine—and after a few moments the subtle aroma of stale beer. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Slopes rose up behind and to each side, thick with conifers. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Bald like Baba, a thick mustache, and a serious face. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

In the pockets, he felt a cold hard kola nut and warm thick blood. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Matty took the packet of folded messages in the thick envelope, and placed it where Leader indicated, inside his shirt next to his chest. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Ozzie responded first, his Jamaican accent a little thicker than usual. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

When I finished the cookies she brushed off the table and brought a thick, small book from the bookcase. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father removes his hat and holds it in his thick, farmer’s hands, the palms caked with grime, soil caught beneath the fingernails. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a smell on that stage, thick and reeking of tension something awful. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever heard an ant wearing fur slippers walk across a thick wool carpet?” The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

They soon realized that the woodland on this left bank was lonely, thick and overgrown—denser than the nut copses and bluebell woods of Sandleford. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dwarf is lying on his stomach with a thick book open in front of him. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

At first I thought he meant me, but then I saw the spiders were leaving the jar, crawling over the thick edge and down toward the earth to safety. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

We seemed swamped by the thick brush of the river. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pinkie dropped his boots into the fire; their soles made thick black smoke, and the light from the fire was temporarily obscured. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It grew quiet in the cushion of brush, the air thick with needles and sap. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Whisper had taught her how to braid her hair into two thick cornrows, because neither Bitter nor Aloe had any idea how to. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The thick leather rifle strap he was wearing stopped the poisoned arrow from tearing into him. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

On nights when the moon shines full, these little fish come swimming out of the sea in schools so thick that you can almost walk on them. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered the thick, solid wood falling to pieces when I touched it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The thick mustache with twisted ends accentuated the sharp angles of his cheekbones. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The wind was blowing hard and the ladder up to the platform that held the housing would be thick with ice. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

But she so thick in what she doing, she don’t know her daddy’s listening. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The ground was thick with the furry snow, but he sat slighdy above it on a hard, flat object. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Snow fell in big, thick flakes, muffling everything. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“We thought she was sleeping,” Bitter whispered, her voice thick with frightened tears. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

In a week or so, everything would be sleeping under a thick comforter, but for now, the cabin stood out in all its sturdy homemade ugliness. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Talk of war was on every lip, and gold cloaks were as thick on the city walls as fleas on . . . well, her, for one. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When the fog cleared, I was still on the side of the mountain, but the road was dirt The grass was thicker. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Both her hands are wrapped in thick bandages—she must've cut herself on broken bottles or empty tins while cleaning out the trash cans around Union Station today. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The bigger ones had the collar, much thicker chains, and chain-like arms that ended in open manacles. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

But the sky began to whiten, the air to grow thick; shadows faded, blue drained out of the sky and snow. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

When morning came, a thick fog smothered New York; the kind Momma called a “pea-souper.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The peanut butter is thick, and it takes a long time for me to swallow just one bite. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

A thick blanket held both of his arms in close to his chest. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The air turned thick; sudden gusts caught the cedars at the edge of the fields and flailed their tops and branches. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It took up at least a quarter of the valley, with trees so tall and thick, you could imagine nobody had been in there since the Native Americans. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

This was more dangerous in one sense—if I fell to the right, there would be no purlins to catch me—but the framing beam was thicker, and I could walk it like a tightrope. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Arrows thick as the rain came whistling over the battlements, and fell clinking and glancing on the stones. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He shook his head over a painting that was nothing but bright red slashes, quick thick lines. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The air was thick with smoke, and stank. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

Half of them had collapsed, pulled down by the weight of the grey moss that draped them and the thick black vines that snaked upward from the water. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her long hair is thick and dark, and her body is still slim, unlike the other moms in the neighborhood who are shaped like upside-down pears. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Our fight back in the valley had dissolved in the thick brew of tragedy, no more than a seasoning that we might pull out later on. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I told him I had a pretty thick skin and, besides, what was a friend for if not to be blown up at every now and then. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Tony, he complained, was wearing all the newest clothes and was now sporting a thick gold rope chain on top of it. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I could not see beyond the lawns, the falling rain came thick and fast. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She stepped over a thick hose draped across the sidewalk that ran from a truck parked at the curb to the inside of the building next to Hollister’s. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She painted on over forty coats—she lost count—but by the time her lacquer had run out, the surface was at least five millimeters thick. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Leaning against the window, Harry could see Hogwarts coming nearer, its many lighted windows blurred and shimmering behind the thick curtain of rain. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“This way, miss,” she said in a thick accent, handing me a fresh towel and leading me down the long hall. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

There was a thick cloud cover, heavy and threatening above us. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He glances up at me, thick eyebrows raised. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I shoved through the thick crowd to the rail. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He pulled the wick out of the bottle and poured the bottle about half full, old straight weight oil thick and gelid with the cold and a long time pouring. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

George always made sure to leave that last thick sip. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Brownburr clung thick to the bottoms of his pants and the rough leather of his boot’s laces. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Senior hall hums, the air thick with anxiety. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Newt stood just a couple of feet in front of the thick curtain of ivy on the wall. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

His thick fingers wrapped around her left wrist, pulling her forward. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

They put their trust in thick walls, in stone and steel. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As they struggled across the dusty plain, the fog became so thick that Percy had to resist the urge to swat it away with his hands. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The teapot is sitting under a thick quilted dome to keep it piping hot. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

She stepped over a thick hose draped across the sidewalk that ran from a truck parked at the curb to the inside of the building next to Hollister’s. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It was dark behind the thick red cloth that draped the stage, and the air smelled musty, but once the curtains were pulled, the light from the auditorium windows would fill the stage. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Thrust thick sheaves of paper in my face. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

They used to be everywhere, thick in the air and offices, in the streets and in people’s own homes. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Then Jeanne returned to the forest and the greyhound—no time to show the dog to her parents now—and knelt down in the thick foliage, pushing ragwort away from her bare arms. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Adam could feel a thick carpet under his feet. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I press accept and Poe’s face slowly comes into view, his thick black eyebrows hanging over familiar warm brown eyes. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

After a moment his voice came thick and low, bubbling out of the bloody spume in his mouth. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had thick black hair, a little too long. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They were soft and thick; my father used them only on cold winter nights. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

When I followed their gaze, I saw a thick cloud of grey smoke rising from the thatch, to become lost in the darker grey of the sky. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Some had hair that was thick and bushy, others, short and hardly there. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I glided as we went into the woods again, and stayed close while the trail narrowed and skittered through some thick underbrush. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Major Sanderson proudly lettered “Contradiction” on his pad with his thick black pencil. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It would be helpful if I could grow a thicker skin, too—armor, perhaps—but we’re almost at the door. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Colonel Korn’s thick, dark jowls inflated unexpectedly with a suppressed guffaw, and it took him a moment to reply. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Ancient stone arches rose above them supported by pillars as thick as ten trees, irregular flagstones lay underfoot, and on all sides were ranged rack upon rack, tier upon tier, of bottles and barrels. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Except for some occasional thunder it was a deeply quiet morning, just the rain and the steady sloshing sounds of eighteen men wading through the thick waters. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It flew him upward, higher and higher, until he burst through the thick clouds to where the sky flowed into the edge of the sea. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Finally, with a wry, sardonic little shudder, Bernabe said, “Welcome, ball fans, to the World Series of Sex,” and he pushed down a little, dropping his thick lips over one breast. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took a thick strand and let it slip through her fingers, around and around. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The storm has churned up thick, dark water. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Yesterday morning I dug out my old Houston Oilers hooded sweatshirt, a thick pair of corduroy pants, and a wool shirt that has always been too large for me to wear. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The trees grew closer, the brush thicker and the banks higher. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Choosing a thick part, he went through the hedge and crossed the road. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The short dark hair was extraordinarily thick and soft. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The crowding trees withstand the drizzle as an artificial sunlight filters through the thick leaves. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Every step formed another word, thick like yellow pitch oozing from a broken pinon limb, words pressing inside his chest until it hurt: don’t leave me. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Drawn on the light cement wall in thick black magic marker are three neat swastikas. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

It was a thick, lush blanket of color—luxurious purple and electric blue and sunshine yellow and cheery red. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Kaede reached out and wrapped her fingers around one of the rings—it was as thick as her own wrist—and when she lifted it, the door swung open. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Cecile let her hair grow and grow in thick, natural braids, and she stuck pencils and pens in it. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I’m not, like, super-fat or anything, but I have thick legs and my stomach is definitely not flat. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The snow got thicker and thicker, and forty- five minutes outside of Eastham, we turned around. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

My voice felt thick and speaking was difficult. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Along the edge there were thick grasses and the water looked a little murky and there were small things swimming in the water, small bugs. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

She put down a plate of hash and a thick slice of sourdough bread, and even though I couldn’t imagine being hungry, my mouth watered and my stomach rumbled and I was suddenly ravenous. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was walking around in a cloud, one of those thick ones that don’t come around North Carolina that much. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The vegetation beneath the plane quickly became thicker, lusher, higher, more aggressive. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It came from several thick patches of soapwort growing along the edge of the pasture. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun fell on the girl’s face, on her large green eyes and her smooth brow, on her high cheekbones and the appealing, thick eyebrows, which were nothing like Mariam’s own, thin and featureless. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then when he thought of the weary painted woman and her thick lips, his heart swelled with sickness and anger and he sat there muttering to himself. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Near morning, I print out what I have done in one long continuous sheet, the way he prefers to read the thick stack of names. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They wrapped the cloth around him and quickly sewed the shroud shut with thick curved needles. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The forest was largely made up of pines and spruce, with stands of some low brush smeared here and there and thick grass and some other kind of very small brush all over. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

One morning she was pulled out of her uneasy, thick sleep by a steady pounding that sharpened into a knocking at her bedroom door. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is crowded and filthy and stinking, with open sewers, unpaved roads, and choking air thick with dust. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I could see his whitened knuckles around the handle and the thick veins standing out in his forearms, but I couldn't do anything to stop him. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Amari felt comfortable as the horse ambled slowly through the thick stands of palm trees that shadowed them, for they reminded her of the palm trees in her homeland so far away. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grenn loomed over him, thick of neck and red of face, with three of his friends behind him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

So we ran again into the deep woods of Salisbury Park, the damp smell of pine thick in the air. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

There are twenty beds in the ward and there are men and boys with bandages around their heads, black patches on their eyes, thick glasses. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The veins had been thick and knotted under the thin, frail skin; the fingers were thickened at the joints. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I spot a picture of him as a little boy on his dresser—scrawny, wearing glasses, and with a thick book in his hand. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Instead of burning quickly, the green chips smoldered and filled the hollow log with thick, choking smoke. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe night falls because it’s heavy, a thick curtain pulled up over the eyes. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He served strong, hot black coffee in thick cups and these visiting teachers blessed his good soul. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I discover two bedrooms, both under a thick layer of dust, one with a figure lying under a cobwebby shroud on the bed. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The smoke grew thicker and the temperature was getting warmer. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The thick voice rumbled on, pouring like oil from her fat throat. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

A thick layer of snow was accumulating on our blankets. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

A green mist poured from the mummy’s mouth, coiling over the floor in thick tendrils, hissing like twenty thousand snakes. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

As they wound up the thread, it seemed to get thicher and thicker. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Her face, as he stepped into the light, was round and thick, and her eyes were like two immense eggs stuck into a white mess of bread dough. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Ivy and Taryn spent the evening eating thick broccoli and cheddar soup out of Mr. Bishop’s homemade sourdough bread bowls and trying on dresses for the Spring Dance in Taryn’s huge room. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The stars grew thick and bright in the sky above. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

L. Roy’s thick book weighs heavily in my bag, so I make an educated guess. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The oaks grew thick and close to the ground. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The swarm of flies around me grew thicker, buzzing in my ears, biting my skin. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

As the crowds of children swelled, firefighters continued to aim their thick hoses at the young protestors. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Left of the high seat stood a maester nigh as fat as the lord he served, a rosy-cheeked man with thick lips and a head of golden curls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Empty turtle shells stood drying in the corner, and the cook’s assistant stirred the thick soup bubbling over the fire. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked back slowly, rereading the thick sheet of paper in his hand. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t want to know anything,” objected the captain, pouting out his thick lips. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

You could see them in the bull-neck, in the big shoulders, in the thick arms, in the sinewy wrists and in the powerful legs. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I focused on my eyes at first, surprised by the thick line under my lashes, but the overall look was warm and clear, maybe even pretty. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The ground was soft and damp, with old leaves thick in the mold. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other two lay on their sides, as if lounging in the thick grass. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The ceiling was thick with cobwebs, the floor coated in grime; moldy and rotting food lay upon the table amidst a mass of crusted pots. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He's light brown with thick black eyebrows and Mama's nose. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

The Russian out of his mouth was thick with an accent, but it was still intelligible. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

One morning she boiled molasses and sugar together until they made a thick syrup, and Pa brought in two pans of clean, white snow from outdoors. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a thick drawl, more ponderous than his low mass responses, the priest spoke the Latin phrases with a sonorous, dramatic discernment. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m worrying the thick gold braids decorating my sleeves when the waiter presents us with what he calls "a little something to amuse the palette." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He was a short, black man with an ever-ready smile, thick lips, a furtive manner, and a greasy, sweaty look. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They have a thick slice of experience with us, and that translates to a real sense of who we are. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Darker still, almost black, were the mats of water moss, their thick masses motionless on the bed of the river and only the trailing fronds waving slowly from side to side. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Remembering Amy’s advice, I walked right over and gave him a big hug, wrapping my skinny arms around his compact frame and taking care to avoid the prickly whiskers in his thick beard. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Before long, thick hands landed on my shoulders. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a real book, thick with more than one hundred pages of adventure. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rain fell thick and heavy, but the SUV’s headlights pierced the mist as I drove the van straight toward them. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

His beard and mustache are so thick that I can’t tell whether he smiles or not. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The interior gradually becomes opaque, covered with a thick brown tar. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The clear jar lay on top of the heap, its sides still smeared thick with the creamy prize. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You have very pretty hands and nice long thick hair.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a wiry little fellow with thick, unclean lenses in his glasses which magnified his frightened stare. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She pulled the drawstring from her pants, kicked them off, and reached down to tie the string as tightly as she could above Loo’s foot, around the fat strong child leg, the thick calf muscle. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Professor Hunk has a visiting professor colleague, a Jewish guy with a thick accent from the kind of European country where most people drink a glass of antisemitism at breakfast. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The light summer rain cooled them off after the thick haze of Club Kalfour. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Next Sunday, at a special Thanksgiving service, the garlands would hang around the thick neck of Chief Omenka and the smaller necks of his family members. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When he came back with the beers and plastic cups, he poured hers with a flourish that, to her, was thick with romance. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Marcus’s book was different—thick, with a hard cover and small type. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The egg flies far past the clearing and disappears into the thick of the park’s trees, where they line the banks of a tiny stream overgrown with bamboo. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A jelly-bellied officer with thick spectacles was purchasing a tall stack of books from the man behind the counter. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bathroom floor was slimy with too much dirt washed off too many bodies, and the toilet was thick with the smells of strangers. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was a thick reddish-brown color and in the inset panels you could see brush strokes. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

They trudged along as fast as they could, over patches of grass, and through thick drifts of old leaves; and all about them the rain pattered and trickled. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I’ll have a tray sent up right quick,” Cook said, her voice thick with disapproval. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

They took her past thick, fringed draperies that shut out the light. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In the car Phaëthon, hardly keeping his place there, was wrapped in thick smoke and heat as if from a fiery furnace. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat alone on the marsh bank for a while, my back against the thick trunk of the old live oak we called the boar hog tree. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The tough Time Suck recovered from the fall quickly, though was a bit wobbly on those thick legs. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

In her hands was a bowl with meat in thick sauce. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Eight feet tall or maybe taller, with legs as thick around as trees, he had a chest worthy of a plow horse and shoulders that would not disgrace an ox. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And the night air was thick and soft and hot with the smell of the flowers of the cassia tree. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

It was a yellowing, brittle, classroom-size map of the United States printed thick with potential destinations. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The crowd’s thick, and once we lose each other, it’s all over. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

This one stretched practically across the table, and was as thick as a brick stood on end. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

From the middle of May to the end of July he paints almost forty scenes of parks full of bright colors and thick paint. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Loud, flapping pieces of cloth, larger than a hut, were attached to the poles by ropes, some of which were thicker than her whole body. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room is thick with bourbon smell and red wool and diamond rings. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

These pines were not like the thick, cone-shaped trees of New England. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled her long, thick hair back into a ponytail and wore unusual dresses and skirts with colorful printed patterns. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He had dark, thick eyebrows, which made him look serious at the best of times and, when he was anxious or angry, came together to form a straight line across his forehead. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

A thick wooden door awaited, covered in cobwebs and dusted with golden Alkean greetings, and I eased it open, flinching as something tickled my head. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Maybe it seemed like it didn’t bother me, but nobody’s got skin that thick. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Surrounding us was a thick, wet, living stand of trees and tall grasses stretching all the way across Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

To make matters worse, because of thick fog, they couldn’t see the ground. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He could feel the silken texture of her thin dress, and beneath that, the thick chain of the topaz about her waist. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Bill startles awake, loosing a thick stream of tobacco juice in my direction. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore was humming quietly, apparently quite at his ease, but the atmosphere was thicker than cold custard, and Harry did not dare look at the Dursleys as he said, “Professor — I’m ready now.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

My voice is thick and bitter even though I really don’t mean for it to be. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The sky was suddenly thick with birds of all sizes and descriptions. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The decor was not expensive but it was well cared for—creamy white carpet on the floors, soft floral paper on the walls, thick, pleated curtains in the windows. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Ophie’s thoughts were thick with questions about Aunt Rose’s husband, about the cookies tucked under the rosebush, about so many other things to do with ghosts. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

There was also a four-foot-long iron bar that had a thick metal U welded on each end. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Hers are the brittle gray of broken glass, but Elias’s, with their ring of dark lashes, are a deeper hue, like the thick heart of a storm cloud. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The nerd at the window—I shouldn’t call him a nerd, but he’s white with an Afro and thick black glasses, plus he’s got a black, silver-buckled belt and white tennis shoes. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

But the branches were thick with spring growth. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if the pan is too small, then the batter is too thick and it might not cook in the middle either. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then he turned and I saw RiRi, her throat grasped under his thick arm, legs kicking the air. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

At 8:23:55 Prince Humperdinck rose roaring, the veins in his thick neck etched like hemp. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

To create the drums, the boys stretched thick plastic bags tightly across the tops of the cans, securing the bags with rubber bands. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He stood and walked around the desk, sitting on the edge of it directly in front of me, arms across his thick chest. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The trees clustered so close and thick that he could hardly force his way between them, and when he did, the leaves scratched his hands and his head; but this was a relief. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Where doors opened in the walls of man-rock, the wood was thick and strong. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She’s upset, so her accent is thicker than usual, and every statement is a question. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

And he handed Gert a stack of money as thick as a novel. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He carefully lifts out a crystal bowl filled with round balls floating in a thick honey-colored syrup. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It has taken us thousands of miles and many days, but here we are: her head on my shoulder, her breath on my neck, the fatigue thick inside both of us. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The creepers were as thick as their thighs and left little but tunnels for further penetration. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

With the other hand she pushed the thick tangle out of Ess’s face. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was a hot afternoon in Indianapolis, the air thick and still like we were inside a cloud. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

His lips were thick and pink and a baby face nestled under the silk of white-blond hair. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The air grew thick, the way it does before a storm. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Books on the TV set and in the closet, small piles of books, tall piles of books, books thick and thin, books old and new. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

So we both got excited when we noticed the workers dragging a long thick hose toward the stem of the Coral Queen. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Rishi looked at her in alarm, his thick eyebrows almost disappearing into his floppy hair. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

They have the same deep-set eyes, the same thick eyebrows that will never go away, no matter how many times they wax or pluck them. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The ground was covered with a thick carpet of pine needles and the charred trunks of pine. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

An hour past dawn on the following Monday, a thick, grandly muscled woman arrived on the back steps of the Meecham house and waited for the sleeping house to stir. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hands were shaking with rage or frustration or exasperation, who knew which, but I managed to fill the mug to the brim with the thick yellowish milk. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faye made a restless movement and her dry lips slobbered a few thick words and sighed off to a snore again. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The marshy water, thick and clouded with dirt, leaves, and branches, smelled and looked awful. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The moon from earlier has gone behind thick clouds. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

My brother’s face was white as a ghost’s and his thick lower lip quivered as he introduced her to our family. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

On the other side, smoke still rose in thick plumes over the rooftops as the riots raged on. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He picks up an acorn and pours a little of the thick black liquid into the cup. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Harrison fiddled with the arm bandage, thick with false blood. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I clamped onto his thick black arm and tried to push it away but I couldn’t budge him. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

She threw on a thick winter coat, pulled on a knitted cap, wrapped a long scarf around her neck, and tugged on a pair of snow boots. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Even his glasses looked dollish: they were thicker than window louvers, tinted a strange bluish shade, and framed in white plastic. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The racket stops, the door opens and the man is there, white hair, thick glasses, white sweater, a stick in his hand. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was way too dark to see anything out in the thick of trees, even with the moon- and starlight. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I looked on as the thick hoses that were attached to her quivered when the gasoline was pumped into her tanks. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We would have called,” Grace said, her voice still thick and papery-sounding from crying, “but we didn’t have a number.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

At first the taste in my mouth gets even worse; it’s something thick and awful, like tar all inside my mouth and down my throat and up my nose. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She slaps a thick folder down on the desk and turns halfway to face Alex and June, out of breath. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The mists were so thick that only the nearest trees were visible; beyond them stood tall shadows and faint lights. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A monster of a man he had been, huge and shaven-headed, with rings of gold and jet and jade around arms thick with muscle, and a great hawk tattooed across his chest. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It whined to life, and the thick metal screeched as it bent upward. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Mind your feet, Marie!” a crew member called as he passed her on the deck, guiding a thick package that swayed in a net as the winch moved it up and outward. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

To rebuild the windmill, with walls twice as thick as before, and to finish it by the appointed date, together with the regular work of the farm, was a tremendous labour. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Her voice is thick with confusion and, also, fear. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The pus that burst forth was thick and yellow as sour milk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

To Las Casas, the Americas seemed so thick with people “that it looked as if God has placed all of or the greater part of the entire human race in these countries.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Coming out of the bottoms, she led us into a thick canebrake. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house is three stories, all brick, and it sits back from Indian Hill Road, deep, deep in a yard blanketed with that thick, bright grass you see in lawn care flyers. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

A thick carrot soup, green salad, lamb chops and mashed potatoes, cheese and fruit, a chocolate cake. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Dark, almond-shaped eyes with long, thick black lashes. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

The room is like thick black velvet wrapped around us. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

He got out his thick, quilted, thigh-length coat, the one his father said could keep him warm at the North Pole. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Where is the stonecutter?” grunted a thick voice. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He peered more closely at Harry from under his thick, snow- flecked eyebrows. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Armed with water cannons and massive hoses, they shot thick streams of canal water up into the third-story windows. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

At about noon, we were brought some soup, one bowl of thick soup for each of us. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

His neck was thick, powerful, and cruelly muscled; his arms were long, athletic to the point of being simian, threaded with veins, and covered with reddish hair. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

To his surprise, Leader followed the frog, pushing his way through thick bushes, and found that it had led him to the place where the path resumed. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Eccentric souls with too much money in their pockets and far too much time on their hands, they had blown thick wads of cash on preposterous machines called automobiles. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sit in the bathtub, scraping away at my calves, which I wish were thicker, bulgier, like the calves of cheerleaders, while my brother mutters outside. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The thick rectangle was covered in grocer’s paper and tied with string. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The trip had hardly started when the Rodina became surrounded by thick cloud. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Later, when the cut bush was dried, we set fire to it and watched the thick smoke rise to the blue summer sky. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Blood, the color of thick red wine, pooled under Ona’s head. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He looked down; through thick woods he could begin to see the boulders, great boulders tall as houses, piled one upon another like the wreckage of a vast explosion. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If any of you have noticed since September,” Blessington pointed out, “this is English class, not Spanish. Julia-day-Burgos”—he pronounced her name with a thick accent—“wrote only in Spanish.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I caught a glimpse of a smile in the curve of his thick, white mustache. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was cooking coconut rice, her apartment thick with spices, a bottle of cheap merlot on her counter, and Nina Simone playing loudly on her CD. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

This man was different: it would have been easy for him to hunt in the flatland, where there were wide skies and light, but he chose instead to go into dark and thick forests. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

His thick tresses floated loosely around his head like the black tentacles of a sea monster. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Jackson reaches in and pulls out a thick ledger book. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“Such big, dark, soulful eyes,” she says slowly in her thick accent, like she’s making a meal of each word. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The undergrowth is very thick, and though there are trails where you can walk upright, the chimps seldom use them for long. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Behind her, Annabella poured water from the kettle over dried leaves that she had placed in two thick mugs. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sasha’s best friend was Michael, a tall, gangly kid with sandy-blond hair and thick glasses who always wore a gray beanie and a green army jacket. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The words float out of TJ’s mouth like clouds, all fluffy and thick. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

There was a thick tartan scarf bound around his head, and his nose was unusually purple. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Just then the Waiter stopped in front of them, beside a large white doorway that looked as though it were made of thick chalk lines. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

“We think at least an inch thick. We need a hole drilled through its center too.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The evening meal was distributed, an especially thick soup, but nobody touched it. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He chose a white nylon cord, as strong as wire and not much thicker. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Therefore, it can ricochet through even a thick layer of dense material without losing much energy. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when I’m not even trying to remember, I see those magnolia trees, the blooming white flowers, and the thick brown branches with Negro bodies hanging. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Then why are the clouds of Venus thicker than the clouds on Earth?” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked the same as she had in life: a green cap set sideways on her thick black hair, dark eyes and olive skin like her brother. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He was not so large as Rontu, but he had his father’s thick coat and the same yellow eyes. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a mixing bowl, use a wooden spoon to stir all the ingredients until they form a thick dough.* Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

But the were-person would stalk down our street; his thick face smiled between the lettering on the laundry window, and when he saw me working, he shouldered inside. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here thick black trunks crowded close together while twisted branches wove a dense canopy overhead and misshapen roots wrestled beneath the soil. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Now you’ll want to hold it out in front of you and press—” I press the button and Magnus goes stiff as a board, his thick arms clapping against his sides. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The words pain her as if they were knitted into her skin with thick needles and yarn. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’d barely made it out alive, and already they were headed right back into the thick of it all: the docks. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

These were plants, they discovered, taller than they were, with stems as hard and thick as the walls of houses, and leaves that spread out over their heads. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I knew I had a thick accent, not because I heard it myself, but because kids sometimes made fun of me when I spoke English. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Miss Love cut off most of the thick gray beard with the scissors, after which Grandpa wrapped a steaming towel around his face to soften the stubble. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

It looked like a thick, short log, but it was black. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

The smell was thick in the air, worse than ever before. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

I had always welcomed vitality and energy and warmth radiating from thick and sturdy winter clothes. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plants blossomed in the thick black earth, sprawling out in all directions while trees—palm, oak, ash, and fruit-bearing ones of every variety—reached up into the misty heights, their branches draped with vines. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Louie, laying it on thick, replied that he wanted a souvenir of the happy time he had had in beautiful Germany. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I picked up the smallest of what was left, but the metal was still thick. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

One was skinny and stringy and the other’n was all thick muscles and solid bone. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

The envelope was thick and heavy, made of yellowish parchment, and the address was written in emerald-green ink. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

His skin was the color of polished copper, his thick mustachios bound with gold and bronze rings. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Some parts of the cell were so thick with virus they looked like buckets of rope. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silence in the room is thicker than them biscuits on our plates. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

One half of the Earthworm, looking like a great, thick, juicy, pink sausage, lay innocently in the sun for all the seagulls to see. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

This atmosphere of carbolic and gangrene clogs the lungs, it is a thick gruel, it suffocates. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, well, you'll probably never be as crazy as I am!” she muttered, putting a thick pair of socks on her bare feet. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then the mist descends, thick as a blanket. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

They flipped through Clarence’s thick stack of papers with serious expressions on their faces. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Below, at each end, the hopper’s wheels are exposed: shiny metal, three feet in diameter, five inches thick, churning. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

They halted under an elm tree: its leaves though fast turning yellow were still thick, and the ground at its feet was fairly dry and sheltered. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I looked at the blank wall: it seemed a sky thick with ascending stars,—every one lit me to a purpose or delight. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Rimas was a short woman with thick ankles, close to Mother’s age. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Redemption was looking at her with those black, trusting eyes of his, his eyebrows thick and messy above them. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Then the white ones were everywhere, covering the floor of the woods thicker than the bloodroot flowers. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The mud nests were so thick on the face of the cliff that, from a distance, the wall looked like it was covered with honeycomb. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be afraid to lay it on thick,” Peeta tells me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I also didn’t want to see Hosie Roach, a snot-nosed twenty-one-year-old mill boy in my class who stunk like a polecat and had tow-colored hair so thick and tangled it looked like a cootie stable. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Through his coat, through the thick smoke of wintry air, I can see TJ’s heart pounding out of his chest. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Tension spreads out like a thick blanket ready to suffocate us all. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

When he spoke to the players that very first time, he told them to ignore the outside pressure that would inevitably swirl around them during the thick of the season. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, on the promontory, the blue-painted cannibals had piled up their cyclopean wall of unmortared stones, fourteen feet high and equally thick, with terraces on the inside from which they could hurl their flints. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ran his fingers through his thick hair and started back up, walking and thinking, thinking and walking. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Grandmère had a thick French accent that was hard to understand sometimes. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I shuffled a few feet farther to the right, hoping to find thicker ice, but managed only to bend an ice ax on the rock. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, Albert opened a door in the cabinet and pulled out a thick manila envelope. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Frank with his baseball hat and his thick beard. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The ivy was especially thick there; it made the world seem green and lush, hiding the hard, impenetrable stone. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He was a stocky youth of twenty years, earnest and homely, with a wide nose and a shock of thick brown hair. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Blunt’s eyes, magnified by the thick lenses of his spectacles, lasered into his own, and for a moment, Alex felt himself pinned down, like an insect under a microscope. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The Friday before Main Street Fest was loaded thick with worry. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Noggle is flipping through a stack of thick, dusty books, probably trying to come up with a lesson that Cardan will like. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

One particular night, as Cabot Searcy was coming in late from a date, he looked over at Benton, who was reading some thick novel, and began to talk. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Her hair is thick and brown, the color of a rotten branch teeming with luscious ants. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Explosives would be arranged around the plutonium, like a very thick skin around a fruit. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed at how long and thick and deep they were, and me and Rondell nodded and laughed with everybody else. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Jonathan’s mouth felt hard and dry, his tongue thick. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

They were safe from any trouble on the way, for Hera wrapped them in a thick mist, so that they reached the palace unseen. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was answered by another of the guardians, a heavy-set man at the end of the table who had several thick books and a stack of papers in front of him. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cut out from the bottoms, walked a rail fence, and jumped from it into a thick canebrake. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indian Health Service also funded eyeglass purchases only once a year and offered one style: those ugly, thick, black plastic ones. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of the first things he intended to do after he deposed the chaplain was move back into the Group Headquarters building, where he could be right in the thick of things. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The fog’s so thick, I have to walk with my arms out straight so I don’t collide into any mailboxes or telephone poles or trees. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He went to bed then; I told him to leave the bedroom door open, and I put some more wood on the fire, thick logs that would last all night. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

With their black hoods and thick black cowls, the six might have been carved from shadow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was so dark on either side of them that Harry thought there must be thick trees there. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

It all looked exactly the same to me—green farms, thick expanses of trees. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Aunt Docia’s dress was a sprigged print, dark blue, with sprigs of red flowers and green leaves thick upon it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly and carefully he rolled about in the thick mud until it formed a poultice, cooling the wounds in his leg and neck, preventing further blood loss. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

All around were great big cages divided up by thick, green, iron bars. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Up the sides of the valley grew thick stands of thatching grass. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

They had taken her to a witch doctor, who had pinched her thin arms and rubbed a thick paste on them. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Hazel jumped lightly on it and from there to the thick planks, which were old and soft-surfaced, dusty and covered with chaff. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I smoothed my hand over his thick hair, cupping the back of his neck. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

They stood at one end of a large room, which was split into two sections by thick metal bars. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Another guy with a thick red scar across his neck says, “You best move along. Now.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lounging in the sun at 28,700 feet inside my thick down suit, gazing across the roof of the world in a hypoxic stupor, I completely lost track of time. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He finally turned to her, grabbed the shirt, threw it to the side of the road, thick with decomposing leaf mold, and ground it in with his foot. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He drummed his thick fingers on the armrest. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Moss saw that she was twisting one of her thick dreads in her hand, something she did when she was anxious. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I also remember watching lots of television in a room covered with really thick brownish gold carpeting.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The top was a thick mass of large limbs, and it hadn’t shed all of its leaves yet. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The glass down here was too thick, but what about the glass upstairs? Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Reeds grew thick in the shallows along the banks, and Arya saw a water snake skimming across the surface, ripples spreading out behind it as it went. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

This part of Iowa has some of the richest topsoil in the world, a layer nearly two feet thick. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

A thick cuff of white string bracelets circled his left wrist. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He has heard Laura in the living room speaking with two men, one of them with a ripply, tricky voice, the other with a coarser voice, a thicker laugh, a big man, no doubt. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I felt a thick lump of fear force its way down my tight throat, into my tight stomach, where it settled. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The towns were zipping by faster now, islands of light thicker together, until the whole landscape below was a glittering carpet. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

An amber eye, a delicate wrist with a silver-and-turquoise bracelet, eyebrows arched and thick as if inviting danger. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the definition of a thick skin. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Long, thick, concrete tables and benches streaked tediously, in two rows, from one end of the hall to the other. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thick black curtain drops over my eyes. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Salim wonders how he can see to drive, between the rain, the night, and the thick sunglasses. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The throngs of people celebrating are so thick it’s slow going. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

At the top some mottled-red boulders provided shelter from wind, and between the rocks grew more thick brown grass. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Others say it was a young Luci Johnson, thick ribbon in her hair. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Its low-slung body is covered with thick reddish-brown hair, as are its five legs, each of which ends in a clubfoot. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He threw himself down on a thick padding of dead leaves and motioned Jethro to do the same. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Davos had almost forgotten how high and thick the walls of Storm's End loomed up close. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I've had visitors from all over, but Alisha's friend was the first to arrive with an itinerary, a thick bundle of brochures and schedules she kept in a nylon pouch strapped around her waist. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Bodies are strewn everywhere and the air is thick with the pungent smell of grass. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

But mostly, it’s because I realized something the day she unrolled her magnificent dot game across the lunch table: Maya’s been my friend through thick and thin. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

The third field was of thick corn, almost ripe. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

They had walked into a patch of tents that were all covered with a thick growth of shamrocks, so that it looked as though small, oddly shaped hillocks had sprouted out of the earth. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It took effort—my head was thick and pounding, my body stiff and sore—but I pushed the comforter onto the floor, swung my legs off the couch and sat up. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Too hungry to worry about tomorrow, I bought a thick slice of cheese and a warm sausage, then a whole loaf of fresh bread and a warm apple tart. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

While Ralph planted both feet, braced himself, and strained to keep his balance, Ronnie leaned back in a deep dip, letting his thick left arm swing wide and high, his pinky finger extended. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

I would have liked to have sat across from her when Fats Waller, tinkling the keys of the piano seductively with his thick, powerful fingers, rolled his big eyes at her. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

So thick was his beard, and so crusted with ice, that for a moment Asha did not know him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

My hands fumble over the thick bandages encasing my ribs and I wonder what I’m still doing here. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He wore his thick brown hair parted neatly to the left, and he flashed me his entitled grin. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

His arms were not burned and neither were his shoulders or back, but a thick swath of gauze ran over his stomach and chest. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The bluebells were so thick underfoot that it was impossible not to tread on them. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There was lemon soda in thick bottles with blue marble stoppers to keep the fizz in. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The stars were so thick, Percy was tempted to stop and gawk at them. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

In the evening there was a great rainbow over the eastern hills; and then the sunset was blotted out by a thick drizzle on the mountain-sides. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They felt thick and swollen, and her mouth was dry. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Flames, like yellow demons, streaked through the thick smoke that poured from the fire. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snow was still thick on the ground, with more falling every day, and Jews were put to work shoveling it off the streets. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

This time, the night so thick, it was impossible to tell the precise moment when the creature emerged from his dreggy pool and began to drag his coils toward hall Heorot. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brian read thick adventure books, ones written by guys like Zane Grey. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll think about it,” I say, and step outside into the cool dusk, thick with the scent of fresh earth and cows. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the poster board was too thick and the scissors kept twisting over onto their side and the harder I squeezed the more my fingers hurt. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked deserted: trees and bushes grew thick in the property behind her house, and long grass and weeds filled the front yard. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The door of the banqueting hall was thick and studded. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, coiled comfortably on the second step, was a thick mottled specimen that Curly recognized as a cottonmouth water moccasin, common in southern Florida. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat at the kitchen table and watched Bertha cut a thick slice of coffee cake and put it on a paper towel in front of me. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I’m certain that Mustafa, who’s on the other side of me in the backseat of our minivan, can hear my heart beating through my thick jacket. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Small wonder that they had to hold Joff's tournament behind the thick stone walls of the Red Keep. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

There was hot bread and fresh-churned butter, a thick beef soup, capon and carrots, and peaches in honey. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He wears thick glasses, which he touches over and over again as he testifies. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

His concentration broken, he stepped awkwardly upon a joist and tripped heavily into the thick dust. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The grand palace rose above the rest of the city like a mountain, the thick snow lying on its tiered roofs like heavy clouds. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He pushed it even harder, till it was biting into the man’s black skin, making all the veins in his hand bulge like thick, black night crawlers. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“No. To make her aware of me would have taken more energy than I had. It’s so very far, and Forest is so thick now, to go through.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Mother’s once thick brown hair is now snow white and thin. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was a stone gray day, the sea a bleak slate broken up by whitecaps, the sky pleated with thick ripples of cloud. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“There’s a thick mist between the hills and us. I can’t see through it, but through it we shall have to go. Or into it, anyway.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had a habit of pushing his thick glasses up the bridge of his nose. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was like trying to swim through thick air instead of water. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be ridiculous. You’re not suggesting attacking a bird that size, with a beak as thick as my front paw?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Man or woman, you couldn’t tell, they were so dusty with a thick cover of snow. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were long gone from thick, white clouds, the plane steadily climbing down. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Servants present us with thick traveling cloaks lined in white fur and covered in tiny gold stitches in the shape of Belle-roses and our royal emblem. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I could hear the roar of the blizzard back in the thick timber of the bottoms. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

People packed the tiny room, and the air felt as thick as the crowd. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

One sat in a chair and looked through the thick, smudged glass that had a few small holes drilled into it to permit conversation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each winter the waters withdrew, leaving behind a thick new layer of mud so black and fertile that two crops grew in Egypt while other lands eked out one. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

He crouched down and began to nibble and gnaw at the thick cord. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heavy curtains and thick carpet muffled the sounds from the train wheels. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

At seven feet long and three inches thick, it makes a perfect stretcher for Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

The day was growing hotter, the air as thick and wet as damp wool, and the pails seemed to grow heavier with every step. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And she just might: she has shiny, wavy hair that she wears back in glittery barrettes, and thick, naturally curly eyelashes, and full, pouty lips. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a young face, painted very thick. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The jungle was thick and the trails dangerous and narrow. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tree’s thick limbs draped all the way to the ground, forming a kind of low-ceilinged room surrounded by the waxy evergreen leaves. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The fire had burned down to a few glowing embers, and shadows lay thick across the bedchamber. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

His right arm was shaded black with mosquitoes, as thick as hair. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She had a sweet, simple face and dark, thick hair held back with bobby pins. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I added some crushed berries for good measure, and then I heated the mixture over a candle flame, reducing it to a thick, heavy syrup. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Dreaming of the day she could funny her mother free of all the work, of all the stress she seemed to wear on her face like thick makeup the wrong color for her skin. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The road ran through thick dark woods that were probably full of good places to hide. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He headed to a clearing he knew of, a place that lay just beyond a thick stand of bristly pines. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He was standing at the head of the table; the rest of us perched on benches, studying the thick planks of red oak. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Frodo received it on his shrinking palm: it seemed to have become thicker and heavier than ever. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Finn had thick, unruly hair with odd cowlicks that sprang up no matter how much Mom smoothed them down. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

As soon as they took the body out, Rebeca closed the doors of her house and buried herself alive, covered with a thick crust of disdain that no earthly temptation was ever able to break. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I plunged my hand into the gourd, making a grab for his thick throat, and he broke into pieces, splashing water all over my face and clothes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In addition to the boiled egg, her breakfast tray contained more of the thick bread and a bowl of warm cereal swimming in cream. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dark, thick smoke filled the top of the opening. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a pair of fingerless gloves knit from a dense navy blue yarn, and a thick pair of brown wool mittens. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Police Chief Song ran a hand through his thick, graying hair. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The moss was thick on the overhanging trees and the light of every star was extinguished in the leafy chapel through which Ben and Mary Anne walked home. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Granddaddy opened his log book and riffled through it in the gloom, his thick yellow fingernail running down the columns. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

When the next face appeared I saw the eyes behind the thick glasses blinking as though noticing me for the first time. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re driving through a stretch of trees so thick that where the road curves up ahead, there’s no way to tell what’s around the corner. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened his knife and began to saw at the thick, stiff fabric, cutting out a piece a bit longer than the split in the hull. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

And I estimated, hand, door frame...I am about three and a half inches thick right now. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Women wailed around bodies lying thick on the grass. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“We have built the walls far too thick for that. They could not knock it down in a week. Courage, comrades!” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

Sirens flashed, and Sean and Jonas Apple helped Finn to his feet, his legs so stiff he could no longer feel them, the air outside him and the air inside him foggy and thick. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Her thick brown hair was in a French braid, and she’d gotten new red glasses. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

His tongue felt heavy and thick; his senses dulled. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Shawn shuffled in wearing heavy boots and a thick winter coat. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

But the flames were thick and oily and burning fast, consuming the ball of bark as fast as if it were gasoline. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pants rarely fit right because of my thick legs and round butt. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he was enveloped in a rancid aroma so thick that it was almost foglike. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Her mouth corners erupted thick bubbles and her face was on fire. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The fog was thick and drizzly, and I couldn’t see much past the edge of the boat. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The growth turned thick, and sticker bushes snagged my legs, but I found it—a little river, not much bigger than the creek where Rosaleen and I had bathed. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We both glanced at the bright lamp he had just plugged into the end of a big, thick orange extension cord. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He was speaking, but we couldn't hear him over the thick shriek of the van’s horn. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She saw two thick dirty toes with creased gray toenails. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isobel places the box upon the table and brushes a thick layer of dust off the top, though much of it still sticks to the knotted ribbons. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Prince Humperdinck dove for his weapons, and a sword flashed in his thick hands. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Don't listen to the crowd, no one's hitting them, pop-pop, in and out, jab and run away, circle left, and Rivera's eyes were bloodshot and swollen, his thick arms were sagging. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I fingered the silver talent in my pocket, thick and heavy. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A stylish sandal lay on the ground and he picked it up and looked at the leather straps, the thick wedge heel, before he left it where it had been. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His tongue felt strange and thick in his mouth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Above the small of the back were the same two scars, raised as thick as a finger. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

The doors have thick glass, but I still hear her go off on him. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I am hiding now in thick woods high up on the west ridge near the gap at the south end of the valley. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

They’re throwing smiles at me from the insides of two very thick balaclavas. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The movie theater's screen was hidden behind a thick curtain embroidered with golden stars. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He has thick ginger eyebrows that meet in the middle and hang over his eyes and his arms hang down to his kneecaps. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The clearing was small, maybe thirty square feet, and covered with a thick layer of leafy weeds growing close to the ground. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

At last her thick black lashes fluttered open. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

In the work’s only avant-garde touch, a thick wire extended from Miss Baker’s head, at the top of which hovered the object of wonder: a hummingbird. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I thought for a moment we were trapped; the thick haze tricked my mind and I knew not if we should proceed down or up. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But as they were covered with a thick coat of mud, they had not been noticed. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The farther west the trail went, the higher it was; the pines were tall and thick, and brushy pinon and cedar filled the spaces between the big trees, blocking out nearly all the light. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The thick cover was smooth under her fingers. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The fuming concoction sent swirls of steam up to the cave ceiling, where bats flapped their wings, clinging upside down from their claws, and pit vipers uncoiled themselves from thick iron hooks. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The lavanderia is undergoing restoration to remove a thick layer of dirt that covers its northern end, brought about by some long-ago mudslide. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me,” she said with a thick French accent. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I was in it thick, up to my neck, and I’m still looking for my boyfriend. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew they were still talking about hair, how long and thick mine looked. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He watched the thick white smoke drift upward like a twisted ribbon dissolving into the sky. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

In the house, the air was thick with tension. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They moved about a mile closer, heading deep into one of the thickest areas of woods they’d crossed yet. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The thick walls shut out the clamor of the castle, and he could hear birds singing, the murmur of crickets, leaves rustling in a gentle wind. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The thick of the night rush is on now, and he flits from table to table, no time to stop and talk. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It comes out thick, as if his throat is bruised, his tongue huge in his mouth, but I hear it anyway. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, there’s a tall, thick bush just below his window, similar to my own window, so I’m feeling pretty safe. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Two of them, a tall thin man and a short thick one. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As Jack and Moniek worked, each managed to make a few peels extra thick, so they contained some potato, and then slip these into their pockets to eat later. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Pregnancy had put color in her cheeks and brought a shine to her thick, dark hair. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But other scientists thought there was a layer of dust on the surface which in places might be thirty or forty feet thick! Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over them both loomed a giant in armor made of stone, but when he opened his visor, there was nothing inside but darkness and thick black blood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He whips a thick leather strap off a hook on the wall, and Alex almost blacks out. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She lifted the cover from the pot of rice, and steam rose like a thick smoke, veiling her face. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

She soon possessed a thick file of nightmare accounts. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The walls were made of branches as thick as my arm, woven together like wicker baskets. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The thick tail of the Warlord flicked out venomously at Matthias’s face. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Luke lifted the pot easily, holding it as she scooped the thick mash into a glass bowl. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Pa would run his fingers through his thick, brown hair, standing it all up on end. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore thick bull’s-eye glasses and she wore a huge gingham apron with pockets, and she was starched and clean. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slabs of ham, poached eggs, the leg of a roast chicken, thick Irish stew, lemon meringue. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Gum Baby shouted, and I lunged for the thick line. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I heard the words thick in my mouth, as if my face had been shot full of novocaine. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was moving on four good legs, strong and swift, and he could feel the ground underfoot, the soft crackling of fallen leaves, thick roots and hard stones, the deep layers of humus. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I was about to stick my wallet back in my pocket when I saw the thick edge of pink paper inside. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

My face feels like it’s on fire as I say it, and my tongue feels twice as thick. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The old man peers up at me through thick lenses. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Hema’s canvas was too thick for Koffi to discern anything from outside, but she heard what sounded like two sets of hands offering polite applause as the musicians exited the tent. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The outer wall, raised many centuries later, was twenty feet lower, but thicker and in better repair, boasting octagonal towers in place of square ones. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His fur was wondrously thick, and the sense of immense power she felt was overwhelming. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I held the letter up to the light to see if I could detect what was inside the envelope, but the paper of the envelope was too thick. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But in Spanish my name is made out of a softer something, like silver, not quite as thick as sister’s name— Magdalena—which is uglier than mine. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning, they took over the girls’ bathroom, where they dragged on cigarettes as they did their hair until the air was unbreathable, thick with smoke and hair spray. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Inside, the smell of mustiness coated everything like a thick layer of bad cologne. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He showed them pictures then; they crowded around his La-Z-Boy as his wrinkled hands flipped slowly through a photo album thick with memories. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Blood was thicker than water and that’s what he wanted, blood. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He had been waiting for her hidden in the thick weeds of the garden. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s so quiet, with the thick carpets and heavy tapestries soaking up the sound. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Over the front door, a yellow star glares thick with wet paint. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

There, beneath a large tree, next to a thick bush, I hide from the rest of the world. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And like he’s forgotten something important, Axel leaves Lark at the thick wooden door, races back through the parking lot, back to Emmett’s SUV. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

My mind feels like a thick, swampy cesspool, a muddled mess. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been her thick accent that had thrown me off. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held out his cup, and a slave filled it with fermented mare's milk, sour-smelling and thick with clots. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“This isn’t working,” he said in a thick voice. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Hugo shrugs into his thick black coat, picks up his SS hat. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a faded Hawaiian shirt and nothing for pants except thick brown goat fur. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Tyrion felt the anger all around him, thick and smoky, fed by the deep cuts in the Stark woman's hands. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

All my life, hot days came with cooler breezes, but even with the sun setting, the air was thick and relentless. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We spent some of our skimpy earnings on thick plastic sheets to keep our home dry, because Arul said the rainy season was approaching. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was thick and beautiful, and I was careful to write slowly and as clearly as I could. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Was the Spirit Bear still out there prowling like a ghost under the thick canopy of spruce trees? Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

As I near the ruins of my old house, the road becomes thick with carts. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Whole civilizations of motes are caught in the thick stripes of light beaming down from two high windows. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Dazed by the collision, he found himself floating in a sea of molasses so thick he could not stand up. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Still, every time he saw Charlie Bombay, he imagined him beating his wife with a thick leather belt. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I black out the basement windows with thick muslin. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

All at once he felt afraid of their thick, ridged horns and their strange eyes and their strange silence. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The second day the host made twenty-four, as their vanguard passed beyond tire Glover lands into the thick of the wdlfswood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He had short, thick arms, no neck, and a pudgy, adolescent face. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Curling white snakes with flickering black tongues, birds with coal-colored wings flapping through the thick fog. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They passed oak-groves where shadows lay thick for all the brightness of the sun. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Flowing black pants made of a thick, warm material. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She began by smearing handfuls of thick mud over her entire body. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I curl up next to her, stroke the thick cloth, and try to fall asleep, while Jay watches over us with his bright eyes. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The choking dust was so thick that it shut out the sun. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a thick pen in one hand and a bag of almonds in the other. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The walls are papered with thick lines of black and cream. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Harry thought the blood seemed to be getting thicker. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

That night, when all the kids were in bed, Mama and Papa sat in the living room holding thick ceramic mugs filled with hot chocolate spiced with cayenne and cinnamon. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

By noon we were both hungry, and we filled up on Gramma’s sandwiches, thick slices of homemade bread with a slab of honey ham between them. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

This time, he drew from his small sack a long, thick band of indigo ribbon for Angeline. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Sometime later, the rain stopped, and a warm sun brought back the thick clouds of mosquitoes and horseflies.They swarmed over Cole’s body as if it were a dead carcass. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Harry saw the lower part of Fudge’s thick body twist in his chair as though he were checking for eavesdroppers. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He was tired of studying the play sheets that filled a thick notebook, tired of being picked at and probed and poked for every detail. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Deep in her belly she felt a vague cramping and a warm damp trickle into the thick sanitary pad the nurse had given her. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A bunch of sleepy snow birds rose from the thick cane, flitted over, and settled in a row on the old rail fence. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Going over to his sheep, Rick bent down, searching in the thick white wool—the fleece at least was genuine—until he found what he was looking for: the concealed control panel of the mechanism. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

The two men looked alike, with thick eyebrows that almost touched, although they had told him they were just friends, and they were dressed alike, too, in leather jackets and long gold chains. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Bone plates move and grow over time, with the skull eventually forming a thick, solid layer of protection around the brain. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Mixed with the scents of grass and cattle came the warm, thick smell of a heavy cloud mass, still far off. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fog so thick, you can’t see the sun, only the light it makes. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The blade was thick at the point but had a sharp edge. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he unfolded the cloth, Lyra saw something like a large watch or a small clock: a thick disk of gold and crystal. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Something he’d seen before, but through the safety of thick glass. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He had a large pink face, not much neck, small, watery blue eyes, and thick blond hair that lay smoothly on his thick, fat head. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Her blonde hair is streaked with gray, and tied back in a thick, cinnamon-roll-shaped bun. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was the shortest nineteen-year-old Mark had ever seen, but thick as an oak tree—all muscle and sinew and veins. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It was just a little thicker than the rest, but I could still see one branch that was a little too straight. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sit down,” she said, her voice thick and savory, like goulash. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

When he speaks again, his voice is thick. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was a short stocky man with thick hands, a short red neck and thinning hair. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frustrated, he got up and moved into the trees to try hiding beneath the thick undergrowth. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She wears a pair of nicely faded jeans, brown leather boots with yellow laces and thick rubber soles. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was a mountain of a man with deep oak-brown skin and a mane of thick black and blond dreadlocks that stuck out in every direction. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

I moved my head slowly to the left, not taking it off the pillow and moving it carefully so as not to disturb the thick bandage that covered my left eye. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

With its sinuous trunk it stroked the huge corpse; then it reached up, broke some leafy branches with a snap, and draped them over the mass of tom thick flesh. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you know,” she said, “it took me so long to plait this hair? She had such thick hair.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

He stopped when he noticed a thick glass Coke bottle on the hood of his Honda. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

My brothers have grown slightly taller and thicker with age. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the trees were so high, so thick, and now the sound was still fainter. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they arrived, the chauffeur had to slam on the brakes because a thick wooden beam had been thrown across the gate to the hacienda as a roadblock. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Donovan leaned back heavily in his chair and shoved thick fingers through his hair. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Its iron-crowned battlements, massive towers, and thick red walls gave it the aspect of a ferocious beast hunched above river and streets. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I select her gold lamé sandals, which have a thick platform sole and an ankle strap. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Each night guards locked the room’s thick steel door. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The sky was many clouds at many levels, some thick and opaque, others looking like smoke. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was rougher than ours, thicker, fitted in smaller pieces. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Good wool, thick, a double weave, damp but not rotted. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The thick eyeliner made us look like raccoons; the bright circles of rouge on our cheeks made us look like dolls. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He put his head close to mine and studied me through thick glasses under the streetlamp. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look down, and I am wearing gray slacks and a gray shirt; I am thicker around the middle and thinner through the shoulders. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He was the only one who couldn’t protect himself, although the thick adobe walls of the office made life somewhat bearable. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Although the birds did not provide much meat, their skins, lined with a thick layer of fat, made a good fuel for the blubber stove. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He distrusted the thick mud walls and built a frame house some distance away, and his cows put their heads out the deep recessed windows of the old Sanchez house. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

My slow southern ears were baffled by their clouded, thick accents. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brandon shushed everybody when they giggled, as he took a thick rubber band off of his wrist. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

At least eighteen hands high, but not thick in the way of shire or draft horses. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Jewelry and rings and watches all locked up behind more thick glass. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Anyway, the thick lenses magnify Lolo’s eyes, so they look really big and green from some angles. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She brushed and braided her hair and let it hang behind in one thick pigtail tied with a little white bow. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was to reach under the thick twiggy construction for a place to grasp. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The last thing I saw was this thing, thick as a tire, snapping into a coil. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The sky had grown as thick and gray as lead. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Even his hair was bigger—a massive globe of blue-black frizz so thick that his lobster-claw horns appeared to be drowning as they tried to swim their way to the surface. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

We scrunched up our noses at the smells of bloody fresh meat and musty dried fish, and lowered our heads from the bees that buzzed in thick clouds over the sheds of the honey sellers. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

His thick lips nursed a big, black cigar that held white ashes an inch long. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I opened the top and inside were a book, a box of crayons, a yellow ruler, a thick pencil, a pair of scissors. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mully had the keys for the j three gates, where bars of black iron as thick as a man’s arm closed off the passage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Beyond the ice, the trees stood tall and silent, huddled in the thick white cloaks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Queen Selyse's uncle was a keg of a man with thick arms and bandy legs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But when I first started walking it was just a thick mist that left everything sort of hazy. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She held the hand of a younger child whose eyes were thick with yellow mucus; it was a common ailment of new ones, quickly healed with herbal mixtures. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

She sank her fingers into their thick, coarse wool. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

He remembered how Carl looked sitting beside him with his gym towel draped around his thick German neck, glaring out the window at the fields. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The two men, long legged and thick chested, could be father and son. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The walls in this building aren’t as thick as the ones in our house. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Out stepped a tiny pink shoe, a foot soft as a rabbit’s ear, then the thick ankle, a flutter of hips, fuchsia roses and green perfume. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

His thick black hair is pulled back into a ponytail. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

It’d never even occurred to her there was such a thing as Puerto Rican literature, let alone that it would be worthy of a thick volume in a Columbia University library. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The breathlessness of the air was growing as they climbed; and now they seemed often in the blind dark to sense some resistance thicker than the foul air. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A tall, skinny, coltish girl, all legs and elbows, her brown hair was woven in a thick braid and bound about with strips of leather. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I’d been fooled because my great-great-grandfather wore the same suit and the same grim face in both photographs, his hair thick and long. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Like a shot into a rotten leg, a wet thick leg. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t large in any sense of the word—he looked like he could have been an accountant, with thick glasses and hunched shoulders from spending too many hours at a desk. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The air was sharp, and there was white frost thick on the ground and on the dead leaves at the edge of the wood across the garden patch. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The other tied a thick rope to a loop on the metal neck ring. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smelled the thick bit of punk which was given gratis with each purchase and which, when lit, smoldered for hours and was used to set off the firecrackers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It did not seem to be any nearer to the edge of the wood, the trees were thick, on all sides around them. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The drawing was of what seemed to be an ordinary man, with a swath of thick black hair. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The rest of the jam he spread in a thick layer on his buttered toast. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picture it hidden, underneath her woolen afghan and the billow of her apron bib, pumping in the thick fleshy darkness of the inside of her body: something taboo, intimate. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

This he said because the woman was fat and ruddy and thick in the bone, but still not uncomely. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Rather thicker than one usually sees . . . quite rigid . . . ten and a quarter inches. Avis!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Like a veil, like a thin mist, a weariness settled on Siddhartha, slowly, every day a little thicker, every month a little darker, every year a little heavier. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then through the trees the familiar form: big man on a black horse, great round shoulders, head thick as a stump: James Longstreet. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sped up to a jog, heading for the green hills filled with wildflowers so tall and thick they waved like new corn. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The enormous serpent, bright, poisonous green, thick as an oak trunk, had raised itself high in the air and its great blunt head was weaving drunkenly between the pillars. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The night was clear and cold, and we bundled up in our thickest coats and scarves. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I trod on three people’s feet, but they were big biker men wearing thick black boots and they didn’t notice. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light was thicker, the breeze had dropped and the beans were still. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thick book made an unpleasant dent in my stomach. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Some nights, the heat lay thick like a towel. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

This woman’s got a plate of grits with fried whiting, biscuits in white gravy, three thick slices of beef bacon, and a side of candied yams with marshmallows and raisins. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Primus's face felt strangely cold; he missed his thick beard. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know which, and I wasn’t sure how she could find anything in the thick mist. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The soles were thick,and made of a material that she could not immediately identify. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

My throat gets thick and my pulse quickens. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The sky now was full of low, ominous clouds, and the air felt murky and thick. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Because they did not burn the land with the same skill and frequency as its previous occupants, the forests grew thicker. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

The trees were so thick he couldn’t see where Snape had gone. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The balloon was certainly descending, because they were enveloped a second later in thick freezing cloud. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The mud is thick and hard to use. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

She had golden-brown skin, thick hair with blond highlights, and long, sparkling fingernails. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

We lived separated by thick doors with several bolts, windows with iron grates, peepholes. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It almost gagged her, but Sansa emptied the cup, gulping down the thick sweet wine until her head was swimming. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But they belonged to a fiercely loyal Irish community that they could count on to stand together through thick and thin. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Greatly reassured they took the path Venus pointed out, protected, although they did not know it, by a thick mist she wrapped around them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked up at the thick trees, then back down into the hole. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Next to him is the second drummer, Manny, a shorter man with a mustache so thick, his lips are invisible. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

He danced about the room in pain on four, then two legs, the kettle covering his head, the boiling oatmeal raining down his thick neck and coat. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The walls, ceiling, and floor were all padded with thick white cloth, muffling even the faint noises from the hallway. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They skip and scamper, scattering for shelter among thick shrubs and hedgerows. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I quickly pull away, but he keeps staring down at me out from under his thick eyelashes. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The water was already thick with singed carcasses. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was trying to twist it thick enough to use it as a whip, but Irene had that figured out. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I remember best going with the younger daughter, Helga, to visit the neighboring farms, eating thick, dark bread in farmhouse kitchens, and learning to wear clogs. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The room itself had no windows and its walls were thick. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Candles float in three small pools: the first is full of rose petals, the second is thick with an infusion of aloe, and the last one simmers with salt, sulfur, and steam. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“Wait for the bloody Tour, Alby,” he said, his voice thick with an odd accent. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He kept ’em hid under the floorboards wrapped up in a fancy piece of thick purple curtain that had beautiful gold tassels sewed on ’longside the fringe. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

Back in the thick timber of the river bottoms, the sharp snapping of frozen limbs could be heard. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Heavy and thick, it weighed me down as I squished along the hallway. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

On top of this we added piles of feathers, and finally the blood, which now was as thick as house paint. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The thing’s body had to be thicker than her arm, rings of black covering its golden scales. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

By that last summer Mitt was thick with them all. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No; I’ve relaxed it recently, as you suggested,” the duke replied, rotating the obsidian ring around his thick finger. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He was a tall black man, with eyes so dark brown they looked almost black beneath thick eyebrows. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of them, a dark-skinned man in his early twenties with thick, knitted eyebrows twirled a whip in his hand and rhythmically swatted the side of the truck with it. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I knew every game trail in the thick canebrakes, and every animal track that was pressed in the mud along the riverbanks. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"A fresh kill . . . the blood would still flow, my lords. Later . . . later it would be clotted, like a ... a jelly, thick and . . . and . . ." He looked as though he was going to be sick. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She takes off her thick, long scarf and wraps it around my shoulders—a gesture that only my mother has ever done for me. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She’s overdressed for a day spent with toddlers, maybe a bit too professional-looking in her pale yellow skirt and white cotton blouse, her thick, dark brown hair twisted into a low bun. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Finally it was established beyond a doubt that he was growing fatter; his thighs were now definitely thicker than his knees. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She wrapped a thick arm around me, and next thing I knew she was tapping me awake. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shadows of the brush and the towering cottonwoods were thick and dark. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the store gave me another present: a long, thick- linked, gold-plated chain that swung down lower than my coat hem. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! Now out of the terror rose another desire, thick, urgent, blind. "Kill the beast! Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I am exhausted, mv head thick with sleep. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was exactly the kind of business lady I’ve always dreamed of becoming, one who wears finely embroidered, shiny white blouses tucked into soft black anacos hemmed with silvery trim, and thick, gold-beaded necklaces. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were young and old, fat and thin, dark skinned and pale, surrounded by thick curls or bald scalps....But all of the faces were twisted in terror, and that made them all look alike. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Fat carp schooled so thick they formed writhing mats of silvery scales on the surface. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Aunty Uju reached for her toothbrush and saw, inside the sink, a thick blob of toothpaste. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

So thick that you can’t make out any actual feature on their bodies, but you can still see their silhouettes. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Breathing thick marine air that carried the scent of a minus tide, I marveled at the fecundity of the Seattle spring, appreciating its damp, mossy charms as never before. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Or it is a thick yellow grub highly prized for fish bait. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kino moved sluggishly, arms and legs stirred like those of a crushed bug, and a thick muttering came from his mouth. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see some sort of thick, gluey secretion from the spider’s pincers on his torn robes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The water turns thick and cloudy, and when we look closer, we see a dot of dark blood in the center of the yolk. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The chorus of the boat song was whispered into the thick jam. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were all in a small clearing completely surrounded by thick oak trees and towering pines—older ones that hadn’t been completely consumed by the sun flares—standing on dry, brittle undergrowth. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Her mind was too soft and thick, and not suited for things like thinking anymore. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“More like thick and tangled, like my hair,” Stella mumbled. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She began to brush Lady Isobel’s thick hair with short, rough strokes. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the tangle of balled-up socks and dust and ratty magazines sat the Converse shoe box—the glimmer of red star on the lid, the march of thick blue letters along the side. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The bronze coffin was wheeled inside and placed upon a platform draped in thick dark red velvet, in front of the altar, and the coffin’s lid was reopened. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Odim Street itself was shapeless and tangled, with both sides knotted in thick bush. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We walked out the front door, to face the chill air and a thick glaze of ice under our feet. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Chet wandered away from his house, thick hands still holding his basketball. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

The ditch was thick with cow parsley, hemlock and long trails of green-flowering bryony. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a moment of perfect quiet, then the mercenary made a deep, wet, coughing sound and vomited up a foul fluid, thick as pitch and black as ink. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His manner is mild, his hands large, with thick fingers and acquisitive thumbs, his blue eyes uncommunicative, falsely innocuous. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

They came crowding in on her thick and fast. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

They knew she was behind it, though, because of the brightness that shone about its thick dark edge. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The smith was squat and broad, plainly dressed in wool and leather, but his arms were as thick as a bull's neck. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The night air was cold and thick with mist. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Outside, she wrapped her shawl tightly over the fur vest and pulled her thick knitted hat down to protect her ears. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He had a thick sheaf of leaflets under his arm. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sheed ceased his grooming, wedged his pick tight into his thick hair, so only the handle protruded, and dug into a bowl of Frosty Loops. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

As she passed one to me, I noticed how thick and red and sausagey her fingers were and wondered if that was a common Polish trait. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

To be an actor you’re supposed to have thick skin, but Samuel’s skin was never thick enough. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Slender iron rods just two and a half inches thick and eighty feet long linked the rim, or felloe, of each wheel to a “spider” affixed to the axle. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

‘It’s going to be thick,’ said Maggot; ‘but I’ll not light my lantern till I turn for home. We’ll hear anything on the road long before we meet it tonight.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Snow was thick on his hood and shoulders; it was already ankle-deep about his boots. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Massive gateways, temples, roofs and whitewashed walls rising thick along its crowded streets traced a long, angular pattern against the sky. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

His friend, a boy with thick hair that stuck up at the top, also hung back, near the trunk of the mango tree. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Finally, she threw off the blankets and dressed in her warmest leggings and a thick woolen dress, and then opened the small trunk at the foot of her bed and pulled out the silvery cloak. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I walked for hours, imagining the mist growing thick and swallowing me whole. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

She paused for a moment on the thick branch of a tree that she could not identify. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I sucked in a mouthful of thick air and held it in while I lay on the ground. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

But once he had the strength, he cut off his long, thick, splendid hair. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“We saw her. A thick dust-storm gave her her chance. When it cleared, the body had been buried and the girl was making an offering to the dead.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was larger than most, made of sturdy wood and bamboo, with thick thatch made from palm leaves making up the roof. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

A massive fish, a flounder as big as a tea-tray and as thick as your arm was brought to the table. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

At moments of wonder, it is easy to avoid small thinking, to en­tertain thoughts that span the universe, that capture both thunder and tinkle, thick and thin, the near and the far. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rider brought his club down on the brachy’s thick hide as a bucket flew past him and clanged onto the street. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“Then I suggest you find a thicker tree.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two college students, with thick books in their hands, are quickly separated from the group. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Could have straightened up and seen what was coming, for it was thick in the air all around us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grab the thick paper sides of the dog food bag. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she opened a terrace door to let the thick heat pour in over her. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He plucked herbal detritus out of the thick hair on his arms. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He whipped around and saw Moaning Myrtle floating hazily in front of him, gazing at him through her thick, pearly glasses. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The snow was thick, but Joseph was breaking a path through it, so it slowed him down more than me. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

The cheekbones were like the wings of a hawk soaring away from his broad nose; he wore a drooping thick mustache; the hairs were steel gray. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Other guards hack at the vines with their swords, but it only makes them grow back thicker and bolder. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The sun was up, but it was struggling to pierce a thick gray curtain. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Olive was tugging at the thick padded flight glove on her left hand. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A lifetime of practical and comfortable considerations settled atop the spark inside her like a thick, heavy blanket. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Because . . . ?” He took a deep breath and stared through the windshield at the thick, rolling clouds that seemed to press down, almost within reach. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Fog was so thick, they were selling it by the slice. Genuine State of Maine Fog. Very popular with the tourists, if you could find one. Many got so lost, they ended up in Pennsylvania.” The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then I’d miss, because with my thick glasses, I basically have no depth perception at all. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ropes are thick, heavy—fourteen feet long for double Dutch. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Here she paused and licked her paw with one long, deliberate stroke of her thick, pink tongue. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I assumed they were brothers, same thick, dark hair and identical molasses-brown eyes. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

He knew the answers to every question they asked, and he only had to look up one thing in one of the thick books on his desk. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

With their puffed-out chests and thick necks they looked like owls rotating their carved faces back and forth. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

By midday her arms ached, and she could hardly push the vacuum over the thick rugs. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

My mother tried to get in front of Lucas, but the crowd was so thick and so close that she couldn’t work herself around the wheelchair. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He’s short and wears glasses, but like he says, at least he has hair—thick, dark stuff that he passed on to me. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

She motioned for Ivy to sit down and Ivy did, her throat suddenly all thick and annoying. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He took the servants’ steps, not the grand stairways of veined marble, but the narrower, steeper, straighter stairs hidden within the thick brick walls. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They lost her in the thick woods and they separated in order to double the chance of finding her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of it seemed to blow the room apart: Fragments of wood and paper and rubble flew in all directions, along with an impenetrable cloud of thick white dust. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

At night it fell past the electric lights in sheets so thick they were nearly opaque. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Eating—cold, cold milk, thick white bread, cheese and cream, ah. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dozer snarls and grasps a thick cable with his teeth. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

As she pushed up, the thick blanket that had been covering her slid down her shoulder, and she realized she wasn’t wearing her dress but an enormous tunic instead. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

They dragged the kitchen table and the thick gray rug. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Tyrion touched his face, plucking at the proud flesh with blunt thick fingers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It was a thick paperback, full of logic games and brain teasers that she’d solved years ago. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The ice reflected his distorted shadow and the beam of wandlight, but deep below the thick, misty gray carapace, something else glinted. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The growth was thick here, and the ground turned to mud as if by an alchemist’s touch, but they managed to reach the top of the mountain. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Her voice is not thick now, or hesitant. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was like the thickest fog Lyra had ever known. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Both an author and a grad student at Columbia now, I affected an outerborough inflection at readings and in interviews that had become thick enough to require subtitles. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The smoke was so thick that it billowed through the roads in drifts as wide as glaciers, dimming the sunlight until it became impossible to tell whether it was morning or midday. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The gel becomes slightly thicker as I cross the living room. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

She found herself in a spacious room with black walls and thick black curtains on the windows, through which not even a feeble ray of sunlight filtered. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the ash so thick inside and out, I had few thoughts to spare for that fool. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Christ, you are as thick as it gets,” he says, and he grabs Alex’s face in both hands and kisses him. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see through the thick hedge that covered most of the eastern edge of the courtyard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The ghost of a girl had risen out of the toilet in a cubicle behind them and was now floating in midair, staring at them through thick, white, round glasses. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Her nose started blooming red, so I put my face back into the thick fabric and tried again. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

It was impossible to live in Congo without growing a thick skin for bugs, but even so, trudging through the jungle was almost more than I could take. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Cyrus took Adam to walk with him one late afternoon, and the black conclusions of all of his study and his thinking came out and flowed with a kind of thick terror over his son. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I walked through thick sand and giant clumps of fly-infested seaweed to try and find a spot with enough light that I could see what I was doing. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

With the long iron stirrer, Estha stirred the thick, fresh jam. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked less like Tom Riddle than ever, his features thick with rage. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

We hurled ourselves across the Ford, waist-deep, & the Current running thick and strong with the Tide — & I slipped & almost dropped my Musket — had not Prince been standing by & seized my Arm & guided me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sky’s gone blue: azure, the ocean bluer: cerulean, the trees are swirls of every hella freaking green on earth and bright thick eggy yellow is spilling over everything. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Above it the stars were thick in the dim sky, but there was no moon. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Crowds are still getting thicker, and things are vanishing from the shelves at an alarming rate. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The candlelight glowed dully and ruby red through the thick glass. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The barman swished two half-liters of dark-brown beer into thick glasses which he had rinsed in a bucket under the counter. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Like hell if I’m spending a night in the rain because of your thick head,” the old man said hotly. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He got a thick stack of clippings from the file box of the most important client. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know where Max got those curtains, but the material is dark and thick with white lilies printed on it, and I know immediately what they’re for. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Ashish paused in his texting madness and looked up, thick eyebrows disappearing into his hairline. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He spoke English with a thick, rolling Urdu accent. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Three days after we opened for business, every chair in the front room was filled, the air thick again with arguments, tobacco smoke, and the smell of fresh coffee and cakes. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what does he care how thick they get, he hasn’t got anything to do: what does he care what time it is. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then in the distance a thick wall of fog arose. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Leona turned around and stared at them through her thick glasses and they quieted down, but the minute she turned her back they started again, in a softer voice. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The air was thick with butterflies, lifting, fluttering, settling. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I run my fingers through the thick layer of bubbles in my tub. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

On the floor over in the far corner, there was something thick and white that looked as though it might be a Silkworm. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He ran a hand through his thick dark beard. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Wahid handed the photo back and rested his thick hand on my shoulder. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Inside it was half-dark, for there was only one window high up on the wall and a thick blue smoke was rising from a corner where a young woman was busy cooking. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the holograms of a real Illinois license, all the same colors, the same thick, laminated plastic, the same organ donor info. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

The fields had small trees scattered over them, pine and maple saplings, and the grass was thick and tangled, as tall as Dicey’s waist. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loved the thick creaminess of it and the salty shadow it left on her tongue. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He ran stumbling through the thick sand to the open space of rock beyond the fire. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Brave warriors, dressed in thick armor, go out with shiny swords to slay them. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The sky was thick and gray, smelling of heat and rain; long mists drifted down between the ridges, lay in pools in the woods, rose toward the sun like white steam. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was short and thick around the middle, with a wild mane of white hair and huge black plastic-rimmed glasses. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

She was a sturdy woman with a square jaw, thick hips, short, muscular legs, and hands rough from tobacco fields and kitchens. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But the tension of the elders—their expectation, which weighted like a thick blanket over the crowd—was the most perplexing of all. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were still inside the castle, with every gate closed and barred and the battlements thick with sentries. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

We looked in the thick forest for Junior and our friends, but they weren’t anywhere to be found. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“My sweet lady,” he murmured after, in a voice still thick with sleep. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Drizzles of rain splash down on top of us, making the air feel instantly thicker with humidity. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

It was blanketed with thick snow, iced over, and glittering like a diamond, but she still did not see anything unusual about it. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Suddenly she would be there, standing in the thick pines beside the river, watching him as he worked. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

"Your Robert got me with child once," she said, her voice thick with contempt. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Under the thick canopy of trees, it was difficult for true sunlight to find its way through, but that didn’t stop the heat from rising as the hours passed. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Outside the cafeteria windows, the snow is falling faster, thicker. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

One more night along the way and the sky had turned into the underside of a thick quilt. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I suppose I could stop you with a Bradley tank, armor two inches thick, three mounted machine guns, and a grenade launcher. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He made sure no one was watching, then slipped Jack a thick biscuit. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Wrapped in a thick black traveling cloak, he looked exhausted, but pleased to see them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The menus are printed on thick, textured paper with fancy gold lettering. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The ghosts were thickest there, and it made sense. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I pull more ice from the back of the truck, but find, even in a thick plastic bag, it’s hard to grip now that it’s starting to melt. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The houses were small, made of white stucco and dark wooden beams and thick thatched roofs. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Was perhaps the stem too long, the edge too thick? The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

It was a picture like so many others in the house, with three people inside a thick frame. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She had picked out three girls who looked alike enough to be sisters, each one as thick as my sisters and I were lanky. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see the doctor clearly then, the dark thick hair growing on the backs of the doctor’s hands as they reached out at him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Steam wafted from the pot’s contents—a thick, hearty stew of barley, beans, and potatoes, studded with chunks of brisket and sausage. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She ran the beam of the flashlight about the room as she searched, the thick dust in the air making the light beam seem almost solid. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

As it continues to shake, the edges of the book expand to twice its original size, and it gets thicker too. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

His dragonlike spines and thick skin sent a strong message to her. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

There were sunflowers big as flowers on Mars and thick cockscombs bleeding the deep red fringe of theater curtains. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Underneath the flourish and ostentation is the old city, street after street of thick red brick houses, with their front porch pillars like the off-white stems of toadstools and their watchful, calculating windows. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

But she can see the words, like thick black syrup, spilling out of the woman’s mouth. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

An aide brought a cup of hot boiled coffee, thick with sugar. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to get Tobias alone after the rankings are announced, but the crowd of initiates and members is too thick, and the force of their congratulations pulls him away from me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

A thwack on Frank’s back from a guy a full head taller than him, with a thick beard, a loud voice, and a face sunburned bright red just like Frank’s. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The flower tree by the parlor window wasn’t dark, but the thick trees were. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been cut from heavy oak planks, and they spi- raled around the massive center timber like the small bones of a spine held in place by thick wooden pegs. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled on it, and with the sound of thick paper ripping apart, the vine came unattached from the wall—more and more as Thomas stepped away from it. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

His Jamaican accent is thick, and I process the words a little after he says them. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

A thick, heavily muscled Asian kid folded his arms as he studied Thomas, his tight shirtsleeves rolled up to show off his biceps. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Beside me is a woman with thick arms, brown hair, and brown teeth. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The thick wall of his coat sleeve warmed my ears. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

At the front office we were met by Mr. Grant, a droopy gentleman with thick glasses and a kind smile who spoke no Spanish. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Harry looked into the prematurely lined face, framed in thick but graying hair, and wished that he could return a different answer. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He’s always in black—pants, T-shirt, thick jacket, heavy Doc Martens. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

In February of 1894 when a thick letter came from a firm of attorneys in Washington the postmaster thought it might be important. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“It needs some work,” said Mr. Beaver, trudging through the thick weeds, “but this ought to do the job.” The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then she tied them both securely to a massive buttress of one of the roots, as thick around as her own hips. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The compound is thick with people this morning, all dressed in green or dark blue uniforms that pool around the ankles or stop several inches above the shoe, depending on the height of the person. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

To make up for it, he paints with even heavier strokes, the impasto thick and thicker. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

There was a valley leading down on the other side, and it was thick with bushes, so they guessed there might be a stream as well. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Its walls were made of thick iron sheets that reached eight feet from the bed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They could hardly see for the thick black smoke issuing from the stall in which Hermione was stirring the cauldron. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Her fingers were thick and awkward as she struggled to lace up her bodice and knot a drab brown cloak about her neck. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The only thing unsettling about his appearance was a thick white scar that ran from just beneath his right eye to his jaw, like an old knife slash. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t noticed how her wigs have been much thicker recently, how she’s let the hair fall to her face so that only her eyes, nose, and lips show. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

There was a thick layer of gummy, dried blood caked around his nose, his mouth, down to even his chin. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I saw a plate of thick, black molasses and a hunk of white bread on the table. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moss grew thick between its ancient stones, spiderwebbing up its walls like the veins in a crone’s legs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Some remaining windows, ones in which the colored glass had shattered, were now paned in a thick, ordinary glass that distorted the view through bubbles and ripples. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other robbers hide along the tracks above and below the bridge, which is thick with bushes and vines. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The blood streaming from her nose is thick and dark and covers her fingers in seconds. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The thing was mostly iron and thicker than my palm in the middle. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They walked back to the rocket, clicked the mechanisms of their rifles, put thick grenade packets on their backs, and checked the free plan of pistols in their holsters. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Reaching the top, we stepped out onto a series of slim iron walkways twenty-five feet above the ground, weaving their way among the thick timbers that supported the roof. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Every sound reached his ears as though through a thick wool blanket. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“Himself not especially susceptible to flattery except in a sentimental way, he soon learned its efficacy when plastered thick on big business men,” Sullivan wrote. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

And the hens were a bother, darting from the periphery into the thick of things, setting up a great hysterical hoo-hah. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I slowly sank, as if in thick water, but this didn’t frighten me. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

The ice was thick but clear, and in some places I could see twenty or thirty feet into it with only a slight waver of distortion. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Two hundred yards up there seemed to be a belt of thick, lower brush starting— about ten or twelve feet high—and that formed a wall he could not see through. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like suddenly, instead of being made of baseball and castles and superheroes and Jack-ness, he was made of something scratchy and thick. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

His hands went to his mouth; he choked, shut his eyes, bent, and a thick rush of fluid filled his mouth, spilled out, fell to splash on the tiles, covering the designs. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dormitories we passed were massive and almost anonymous behind their thick layers of ivy, big, old-looking leaves you would have thought stayed there winter and summer, permanent hanging gardens in New Hampshire. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, snow swirled through the castle gates, and the yard was all noise and chaos, but inside the thick stone walls it was still warm and quiet. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The pole holders line their thick bamboo reeds flat on the floor, and we plaster on big smiles. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

She knew how thin you needed to make paint so that it would flow and how thick you could make it so that it would clump on the canvas like clay, something to be sculpted. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The tree canopy is so thick, it basically looks like night in there. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

Every islet is thick with farms and fishermen’s houses, and these are gathered into townships each of ten or twenty islets. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

She had a glimpse of a low room dimly lit with dulled red-shaded lamps and thick with the smoke of cigars. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lanre was always where the fight was thickest, where he was needed most. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Alexandra showed little evidence of such activity as she stood waiting for her niece: her thick gray hair was neatly arranged, as usual; she had on no makeup and it made no difference. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

When Mr. Jacobs pulled a thick black cable out of the wall, the hum dropped out. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

When the biologist stood up, I saw her thick, curly hair, pulled back with a purple headband. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“These are the counts from three turns ago,” Marsh told Jon, offering him a thick sheaf of papers, “for comparison with our present stores. Shall we start with the granaries?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I put on my thickest red flannel nightie and dove into bed. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The grass is yellow and brown under my feet, and I’m surrounded by thick crowds of people. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Before long the changing sound their footsteps made told them that there was an openness nearby, although the mist was even thicker. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But after five minutes of half running, half stumbling, the forest remained as thick as ever. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was as if a thick glass wall had formed in the doorway and I couldn’t get past it. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The air was thick and he couldn’t breathe. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And in the actual city it became so thick I could’ve hopped out and walked faster. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

But when I tried to take a sip, I couldn’t swallow it, as if the water had somehow become too thick. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The outside walls, covered with white stucco, were three feet thick. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not a messenger showing up at that eerie time of early dawn, the dew still thick on the grass. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky is very dark now, and the moisture in the air is turning into a thick fog. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bathroom was filled with thick smoke that burned our eyes and made us cough. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sure whatever the issue is, it’s squashable, right? Blood is thicker than water.” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Entering the destroyed warehouse, the thick smell of burnt flesh quickens my pulse. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I laid Ayanna on a flat stretch of ground, thick with grass. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The thick earthen walls protected the prisoners from freezing, but the only light was the single torch left by the guard. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

This would be the western border of the Great Fire and, aside from the thick smoke, relatively safe. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

The teachers, the pupils, the principal, everyone at school knew: Teddy and Trevor, thick as thieves. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The king’s supply of traveling cakes saved her and Dragon from hunger, but Minli wished for the thick silk blanket. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Hare sailed through the air, landing softly in the thick grass that grew on the other side of the ravine. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, it turned out to be too thick for tying his exhaust pipes in place. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

The rubber band was small but thick and had a good, tight fit. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The door swung open behind us and in piled a group of boys, thick ’fros, long black T-shirts and hoodies, one carrying a basketball. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

You got good hair, not as thick as some of these other girls.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

His thick lips worked soundlessly for a moment before he gained his poise. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

They were heavy old glasses, an inch thick at the bottom. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I know,” I said, putting on the thick glasses, the ones Squints wears. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I followed him right into the thick of it. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

So instead of following Georgie, I sat in the sunshine and braided my hair into a long single plait, as thick and heavy as rope, and tied it with string. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

There wasn’t anyone in the field and, judging by the thick weeds engulfing the manioc plants, hadn’t been for a while. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Triumphantly Matt pulled a thick wad of bread from the voluminous pocket of his baggy shorts. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man knelt beside him and reached out a hand gingerly, running his fingers over the thick links of the chain. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He streaked through the dark, thick underbrush of the forest like a bullet, like a ghost. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The growth of pines was not thick enough to do more than interfere with the rain, and the needle-carpeted ground underfoot was damp. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pesza had long blond hair that my mother plaited into thick braids. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Pri has already dug her thick hand into my bag of potato chips. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The old thick walls sucked in coat after coat of whitewash made with lime in salt water, which, as it dried, seemed to have a luminosity of its own. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The glass on the frame was so thick with dust that I tried to blow it clean. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

His legs were covered in dark greaves; his flesh all thick purple muscle, like the ground. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The jungle foliage was so thick, he could barely even see the sun. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The shortest way to the central keep where her father lay dying was through the godswood, with its grass and wildflowers and thick stands of elm and redwood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Their thick, dark, shabby clothes got all full of prickly things, and since they were much too hot anyhow, they took most of them off. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

No edge of light escaped the thick curtains, but the room was bright with the light from the lamps. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

In the summer they preferred the thickest forests, where they could frolic as they wished as soon as they got away from hikers and boy scouts. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mirror showed my sleeping space—a thick blanket and a pillow. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The boys cut through the thick elephant skin to rescue their small brother. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“He had the prettiest lashes, thick like yours. A good chin, a fine nose, and a round forehead. Oh, your father was handsome, Aziza. He was perfect. Perfect, like you are.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Over two meters tall, a half meter wide, and three- quarters of a meter thick. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyebrows, however, were as seductively arched as a nautch girl’s, his eyelashes so thick he might have been wearing mascara. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Some on thick paper and some that looked like they were ripped out of her sketchbook, because they had crinkled edges on the side. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The trunk of the tree split in four directions, each branch thicker than both of Emily’s legs put together. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

A boy skips into the hallway in a thick fur coat, a large pair of antlers perched atop his head. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Looking back they could see the dark line of the Hedge through the stems of trees that were already thick about them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Some ten feet in front of them stood a short, plump man wearing enormously thick glasses that reduced his eyes to molelike specks. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It was a Benz, an unusual car in this neighborhood, blue with a thick white stripe bisecting the hood, the roof, and the trunk. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

A thick line of police fanned out to hold the masses back. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their voices buzzed in his ears like wasps muffled in thick felt. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t thought of it at the time, but I guess all of the snowballs hitting him had taken a toll, even through his thick winter coat. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

She ran from him, but her body seemed thick and ungainly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Modest wood-frame houses are dwarfed by the trees, which grow thick and tall here. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

It was thick and raised, wrapping around the bottom of his leg like an ugly bracelet. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Neither Wilfred nor Hilda came out to the porch, so I sat there, long after the thick billowing exhaust fumes faded into the white landscape. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I woke once and heard the snow ticking thick and soft on the tent. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Long stones lined the interior walls, like benches, and were covered with thick cushions of moss. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

We get to the foot of the hill, where the crowd is thicker, pushing and prodding on all sides. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

Through their thick, diamond-shaped panes of yellow glass Jaime glimpsed the gnarled limbs of the tree from which the castle took its name. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The dense hair on my arms was almost blond, and my eyebrow hairs weren't nearly as thick as the ones my sister had been born with. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Go in,” he said in a thick, light voice. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shaded her thick chestnut hair resting in a smooth curve against her face, a large bruise blazing across her cheek. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I was going slowly along one of the tunnels made by hippos, through the thick undergrowth where they move inland to graze at night, when I heard something moving toward me. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair, thick and matted, obviously had not been brushed in a long time. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He cleared his throat and spat a thick glob of phlegm onto the rushes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Arriving at the door, I grabbed its thick golden handle and pulled. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The island, which was about nine square miles, had a thick belt of quite dense bush around the edge. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

I try on a few pairs and then pick up a thick bracelet the color of a pomegranate and sitting in the clearance basket. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

"Bring him here," Robert's voice called, strangely thick. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then scientists passed around thick pieces of dark glass, the kind used in welder’s masks. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally, Jimmy Zizmo brought home a few of his business associates, hulking men with thick, ham-like heads stuffed into their fedoras. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Little plumes of smoke, thick as worms, began to writhe in the air. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

As KGB officers surrounded Tolkachev, one of them forced a thick rope between his teeth, to prevent him from biting down on a suicide pill. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The crust on them was an inch thick and so short and flaky it looked like scorched tissue paper. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was also a strip of some dark substance as long and as thick as his forearm. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It hadn’t occurred to me that Cecile didn’t own a hot comb or curling iron, even though that fact was as big and thick as her unpressed braids. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had left him in the shelter of a thick hedge, sure of his course for the big warren. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nasser was thirty-five and tall, with freckles and a thick mess of red hair. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

And the thick curl of something more, something I thought I’d only ever smelled with the memory of smell. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He put it all to boil in a pot of castor oil until he got a thick and pestilential syrup which was more like common caramel than valuable gold. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The third level of the platform was woven of branches no thicker than a finger, and covered with dry leaves and twigs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He found one beside a rotting log and drew in the thick scents of a colony of field mice. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Halfway up War Mountain, the wind started to blow and the snow pelted down so thick I couldn’t see the lights of the houses in the valley below. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“He took my eye,” Chencho said, lifting the lock of hair from over his left eye to reveal a deformed eyelid fused together by thick scars. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He’d gained weight since I’d seen him last, and his heavy gray wool pants and thick blue down coat made him look even bigger. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Poking out of the end of his robes was what looked like a thick, flesh-colored rubber glove. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

He removed the green cap and revealed thick black hair plastered to his skull with Vaseline in the style of the 1920s. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is so thick that she doesn’t know how he even fit whatever it is into that envelope. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A vein popped out on Major's forehead, and his thick arms shook from the strain of keeping his muscles flexed. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

To wear it, I’d pull a thick woolen sock over my real leg, slip the fake one over it and tighten the lace so it didn’t fall off. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to give you the same deep condition treatment that I give my daughter. She has thick, curly hair like yours. I make the conditioner myself.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He presses his lips together as his thick brows furrow. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She pauses, and my throat feels thicker with every passing second. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Jody took three eggs on his plate and followed with three thick slices of crisp bacon. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment I see her in Abnegation gray, her thick hair bound back with a dozen pins, sitting across the dinner table from me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Tia is kind of big and imposing and her thick black eyebrows have scared me since childhood. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was as thick as Indiana bean soup. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I moved to sit on the edge of the water trough, but the thick planking crumbled under my weight like a rotten stump. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was more like a thick, tattered cobweb. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The fabric looked like plain cotton, but she felt as warm as if she had put on a thick fur. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

After rain, or when snowfalls thaw, the streets, unnamed, unshaded, unpaved, turn from the thickest dust into the direst mud. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning the house was warm from the stove, but when Laura looked out of the window she saw that the ground was covered with soft, thick snow. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man with a brown suit and thick glasses like mine was sitting at a desk. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking back, I try to find Chou and Pithy but cannot see them in the thick brush. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is showing how his magic can make my hair thicker and longer. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached into her backpack and pulled out a thick bar of milk chocolate. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Grandma Post let us have leftover peanut-butter pie for breakfast while she played solitaire, occasionally looking up through her thick glasses at the Perry Mason rerun she had on, the volume blasting. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

It was hard sledging in that much-folded land, with more than my weight to pull, but the snow was thick and already growing firm, and I was in dothe. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She, however, wanted to hide away from the lion in the thick undergrowth at the bottom of the gorge. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The policeman’s hand squeezed her shoulder, and his fingers dug through the thick cloth of her coat. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The American ship tows ours with a steel braid thick as my body. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The milk was the sweetest thing I had ever tasted, the spices so thick I could near chew them. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Crazy Horse took his warriors to a thick stand of leafless bushes. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

There was a white linen cloth laid on the grass, with bowls piled high with food—she could see salads and sandwiches, nuts and fruit, jugs of lemonade and water and thick chocolate milk. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

When she felt okay enough to open her eyes, she wasn’t standing on hardwood anymore but on thick green carpet that was easy to recognize: it was the top floor of Redemption’s house. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Their hair was still wrapped in thick towels, and they were wearing their long shirts from home. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Just then the number 25 bus screeches to a halt in front of the bodega, coughing out a thick puff of black smoke before the doors open. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

When we reach the square, it’s clear something’s happening, but the crowds too thick to see. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

A thick milky liquid oozed out, which they eagerly drank. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

It's probably three inches thick under my feet, and a few strands of it jut out stiffly from the slats of my locker. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

A thick blanket of snow covered each roof as if to warm and protect the house underneath. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

A serious lady in thick black glasses even suggests I be taken to her lab and studied. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was like they were in a massive empty room with thick curtains pulled all around them. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

We unlocked our bikes and started pedaling home in the thick July heat. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The floor was covered with dark, thick rugs. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crust beneath the Sierra Nevada Mountains, for instance, is only about nineteen to twenty-five miles thick, and no one knows why. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

As she had guessed, a thick hairbrush with a wooden handle lay on the shelf beside the sink. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her thick white sneaker toddling on the first step. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He stood on the rimrock and looked over the edge, down on the dark evergreens and pinon trees growing thick on the steep canyon slopes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

For breakfast they brought you these peanut butter sandwiches on thick slices of bread. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Her hair was black and generous, with thick curls circling her face, a face I could never quite coax into view, despite the sharpness of everything else. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wears the braid every day and always, by lunchtime, the curls and ringlets of her thick mane have managed to escape in rebellious little tendrils. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thick glass windowpanes are covered by dreary dark brown curtains. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then I saw the thick black eyebrows arch upward and the lids go about halfway down across the eyes. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

That summer, all the men except for my grandfather Walter Tate cut their hair close and shaved off their thick beards and mustaches. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Her eyes turn up at the corners and are lined by thick eyelashes. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

On Thursday, I was sitting in Mr. Harding’s classroom, munching on my pimento cheese sandwich, when he came over and threw a thick book down on my desk. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice was thick and dark like coffee. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I just stared, looking at his thick and bushy hair. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

I tried to focus on the one thing I could be thankful for—the thick haze of rain clouds that kept the sun from beating down on you and the rest of us. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

His eyes were glowing in the dim light, a drop of water on his thick eyelashes. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The smell from the thick mounds of excrement beneath the terrified pigs and the high-pitched squeals of terror as they awaited death made Kira feel dizzy and nauseated. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were small ashes, which at some time had been cut down and had sprouted up again into a forest of poles, none of them thicker than one’s wrist. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Mr. Jackson was a tall black man with a mostly bald head and a thick mustache. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

His voice was thick with grief, and Dany was reluctant to press him any further, yet she had to know how it ended. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Kate settled herself gingerly among the thick down cushions and slowly removed her gloves. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The thick scent of the tree blossoms was beginning to border on nauseating. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

It is thick with stalks of corn, each with three or four ears, standing twice the size of the small boy. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tasted sour milk, and something else, something thick and bitter. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

A slender spirit with a thick mustache waves us over to his table. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I knew I was looking for a yellowish-orange, thick trumpet shape. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Dinka cows look wilder than their American cousins and have thick horns that are two to three feet long. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bread was thick and dark, and tearing chunks of it gave us distraction for our hands. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We built a fire in the cave once and had to run outside because the smoke got so thick. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I could tell it had turned thick with afternoon rain, but the sky was holding back. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cut a thick slice off the loaf while she sprinkled sugar onto the plate. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

By midafternoon the front room of the coffeehouse was thick with customers, pipe smoke, and loud arguments. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kendra tried to pretend she was on a surreal playground, where the kids waded in milk instead of sand and slid down thick, meaty poles. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The book had a cloth cover with several dark stains, and the paper was thick and creamy, soft at the edges. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

She let me lead the Pledge of Allegiance for the class and gave me thick slices of icebox cake from her own lunch. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The summer was already thick when Frieda and I received our seeds. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although Johnny told him three times about those eight shillings, he was not sure whether the idea had penetrated the wild Irishman’s thick skull or not. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His charger wore a blanket of enameled crimson scales and gilded crinet and chamfron, while Lord Tywin himself sported a thick ermine cloak. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And the throng haint gave way around her, splattered back across Wick and the far wall in a thick coat of nastiness. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Alex followed the driver along a carpet so thick that he almost bounced. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Rose vines push from their pots, curling and lengthening to create a thick and thorny arbor over our heads. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

And she had long, thick eyelashes that were the key to my parents' hearts. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The students are each given several sheets of newsprint and thick colored crayons whose labels have been peeled. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

A few yards away, a column of thick black smoke roiled into the sky from a much larger crater. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Drawing it back, I looked around me, and it was like seeing everything through a train’s thick window. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was impressively strong, if a bit thick around the middle. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She handed Lyddie a cup of her boiled coffee, thick with cream and maple sugar. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Time enough for Cora to take stock of her journey from Randall and make a thick braid of her misfortunes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He had meant to fill that wide crack with thick mud and let it dry and harden. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The telephone poles stood firm, but the pines, both narrow and thick, had fallen, like soldiers in ugly army green had been shot up in the road. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The driver stopped with a jerk, in the middle of the road, and they jumped out of the car and into the thick green bush. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

And Darius’s brown eyes with those thick eyelashes, staring at me. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

For now, only one thick book, as thick as a brick, rests with its golden letters turned out to face the room: A. P. Brown’s Collection of North American Birds. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

But when the sun sank low they would return, descending from the sky on night-black wings until every branch of every tree was thick with them for yards around. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The saplings shuddered with every tug he made, and they all grew taller and thicker, doming inward, until they touched at the top. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

A thick coating of the warm flakes covered their heads and shoulders. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

The left hand was curled open; the fingers were filthy; the wristwatch gave off a green phosphorescent shine as it slipped beneath the thick waters. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep glancing out the window, watching the snow coming down thicker and thicker. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

She wore a flowing, bright yellow dress, and her blonde hair was perfectly coiffed in a thick chignon. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

It barely even registered that the music, distorted by the narrow corridor into thick, echoing noise, was “Scar Tissue,” one of my favorite tunes. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Anborn grunted and led the way down the winding stair to the landing, and then up the other stair, until at last they came to a narrow opening shrouded with thick bushes. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Spider pulled from her abdomen a folded white sash that was two inches thick. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

“You weren’t being thick after all — you were showing moral fiber!” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Mom eyed George, her eyebrows thick and heavy. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

That part reached into the bucket for a thick Magic Marker. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

On top of the counter are three thick books. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The leaves, smooth slices of silvery green, create a thick, lacy carpet on the forest floor. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

When am I going to find time to read such a thick book? Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Grandma Sands must have real thin blood, because even though it was hot as a furnace in the house she had on a big thick nightgown and a big thick robe. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The morning air was thick with the old familiar stinks of King’s Landing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Like thick paint, it slowly dripped all the way down into the bottom of his stomach. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The iron bars are thick and smooth, and Bailey knows without trying that he will not be able to climb over. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And so Bono and I, Clippinger and Olakunde lay that night in the mud of the marsh, flies thick upon our heads, roots around our fingers, guns lain in leaves upon the shore. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

He was big and tall, with thick black glasses and a name tag that read joe. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Before leaving the house, he had gone down into the kitchen, and cut one thick slice of bread and butter, and he ate that, now, with one of the cheese triangles. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

But it’s difficult to keep to it because the bushes are thick. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remained on the porch, but he leaned forward, his thick arms going up on either side of the door frame. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Then she ran off, disappearing into the thick stalks of corn bordering one of the farms that led around the opposite side of the marsh. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“My pa sent thee this,” he said, handing her a thick brown parcel about the size of a small book. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t sleep well at night, though, and my head feels thick and dizzy. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Her body is covered in thick golden hair, her arms long enough to drag on the ground if she didn’t bend them. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There, light from the window of thick oiled paper falling golden on their faces, the two young women sewed and talked. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

But then ... then ... we hear this heavy, thick sound, like an explosion in a closed room, and Andy and B. J. is knocked off the hood. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thick soles of his own high shoes are crusted with white and there is white in the stitching and lace-eyes, and under his nails and in the cracked chapped skin of his hands. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

They melted from sight in the thick green. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joffrey examined the boy, an ungainly lad with a coarse, freckled face and thick red hair. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The seemingly obvious answer is that you should take the first option: the thick slice. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It makes another mouth, a small red one, like the mouths painted with thick brushes by kindergarten children. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of the prince’s status, we were allowed to meet one another in the consulting room, not the normal visiting area where one is separated from one’s family by thick walls and glass. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We walked through it without notice, so thick was the very air with water, until the flood reached Dr. Trefusis’s knees, and there he halted, swaying. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

All around me there was a great numbness, as if I were sealed in wax ten inches thick. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I stare down at my hands, disappointment pooling inside me, black and thick and hopeless. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It would be Heisenberg and his mentor, the soft-spoken but rigorously logical Dane Niels Bohr, who finally divined the solution, in a process Heisenberg likened to watching an object emerge from a thick fog. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

His opponent was shorter and thicker, built like an ox, with a low jutting brow and broad cheeks, and he hacked and battered at his door, making it shudder and jump under his sword. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Even if it was 30 miles from the village, I’d go on my own, through thick and thin, through the forest and deserts. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

His voice sounds thick with emotion, so thick I am surprised it does not choke him on the way out. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the morning I added: “It is quite true. The can is dry, and thick with a black substance. It is very salty, and I tried it on frogs’ legs for breakfast. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they drank their tea and the son said at last in a thick, uneven voice, “I did not believe it was so.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The smoke had grown thicker, making it hard to breathe. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

For bedding, he spread out a thick mattress of dust-free rice straw. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each has a thick coat, some with fur that is straight and sleek, others curly, and the colors vary from jet black to what I can only describe as blond. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Their ankles were covered with the same kind of thick iron shackles as the woman’s. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Away eastward the sun was rising red out of the mists that lay thick on the world. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

For dessert we each get a bowl of grated coconut in really thick syrup. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

After a few days of coolness, the sun blazed with heat again, and the air was thick with moisture and infection. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing that I’m the littlest girl with the darkest skin and the thickest hair in the whole Catholic school, Missus Wilhelmina doesn’t like me—no, not at all. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The barrel of the ribs was as narrow as that of a skeleton; the legs had shrunk so that the knees were thicker than the thighs. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I had the Mexican going on for sure: brown skin and thick brown hair that was lighter than Mom’s but darker than Dad’s and that I usually wore in two braids. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Once more the smoke rose, yellow and thick. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The library door was thick and none of the ordinary sounds that might have reminded them, might have held them back, could reach them. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“She has a boyfriend! I knew I should have tried to holler at that thick one!” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The milk of the poppy had left a thick white fllm around her father's mouth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A girl with thick, short hair stretched up to the ceiling, then bowed down to her feet, holding her position and letting her arms dangle toward the hardwood studio floor. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The grassland between the stream and cliff was thick with them. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a carpet on the floor more wonderfully colored than anything he had ever seen and his feet sank down into it as if he were treading in thick moss. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

It was perfectly circular and as thick as the width of her palm. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He had to be careful; the paint was still wet, the impasto so thick a piece could take weeks or months or a year to dry. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The heavy thighs, the thick calves, the strange roundness of the knees, the wide feet. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even from a distance I could see that it was something meant for animals, twenty feet by ten, made of thick iron bars. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

She tore off a chunk of bread from a long loaf on top of the refrigerator, spread it thick with butter, and put the bread on a napkin in front of me. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then, coming out of a stand of thick willows, they found it. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

The rain poured down his thick glasses and he took them off and wiped them to see the protecting canvas unrolled from Gatsby's grave. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

As Sefia and Archer entered, their footsteps making soft depressions in a thick carpet of red and gold, a man in a dirty aubergine overcoat closed the door behind them. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The driver was an oldish man with a thick black drooping moustache. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Even with the thick black lashes that Faris and Dex love to mock, my eyes are so much my mother’s that I hate seeing them. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He showed up punctually at the appointed spot and did not once look up at the sky, which was growing darker and darker with thick gray clouds. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His thick hands squeeze my arms and leave behind more bruises. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It was nothing but a log raft drawn by thick ropes pulled by twenty men who walked along the bank. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Together they climbed up to the center of the island, where the trees were thick and high. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The air was thick with the stench of excrement. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was thicker than his entire body, and one side of it was covered in a thick blanket of moss. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The cop kept writing in his thick pad. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

I gently brush the dark, thick hair back behind her ear. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I finger the thick toweled robes, read the labels on the amenities, pat the eiderdown quilts, inspect the well-stocked refrigerator, and step into the huge, empty, gleaming bathtub. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I thought about Ade Coker’s glasses, I imagined the thick, bluish lenses shattering, the white frames melting into sticky goo. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The ground at Birkenau was like a swamp, wet and thick with mud, and there were no floors in the barracks. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She tapped the thick plastic case to make sure he knew which scratch-offs she wanted. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The thin, patchy blanket didn’t protect him from the cold desert night like his thick blanket at home did. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Sitting on my bed looking at my bookcase one night during the second week, I see my thick Sherlock Holmes collection. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maman descended on me, mopping my tears with her apron with one hand, showing how warm and thick the slacks are with the other. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Rather than the thick, unbroken, monumental snarl of trees imagined by Thoreau, the great eastern forest was an ecological kaleidoscope of garden plots, blackberry rambles, pine barrens, and spacious groves of chestnut, hickory, and oak. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He had dimples, too, just like mine, and if it hadn’t been for his somewhat thicker eyebrows and smaller nose, we would have been able to pass for twins. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

She was camouflaged in thick mud and clusters of wildflowers. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They stood in a vast courtyard several times the size of a football field, surrounded by four enormous walls made of gray stone and covered in spots with thick ivy. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Underneath the spread branches of the oaks the plants grew pale and tall, and on the hills the feed was smooth and thick. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

As each one landed, it emitted a thick cloud of white smoke, which hung malevolently in the air. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Annabeth wanted to strangle the guy, but she wasn’t sure her hands would fit around his thick neck. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

At first the splashes of cream showed thick and smooth around the little hole. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held a beaker of muddy brown liquid up to the warm, wavering light and put on his spectacles to peer at the thick sediment that settled to the bottom like river sludge. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

She continued to step deliberately through the trees, and soon her brightness was striped by their thick black trunks. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Strands of thick black hair, still wet from the bathhouse, fell across his deep blue eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It would only grow thicker as the day dragged on, until it blanketed everything. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

She held up the thick picture book I’d used to memorize titles and artists. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The trees were thicker now than they had yet been and in the more open spaces there was bracken. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Then, finally, there was a scraping sound as the thick beam blocking the opening moved a bit to the side. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The next day it had stopped raining, but a thick white fog had lowered over the house. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

In a thick voice he said, “Your parents kick you out, Cal? Is that it?” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He takes Axel into his thick arms, pulls him into his soft, round belly. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

To the north was the main road where we had seen the cyclists; to the south there was a small branch-road across the fields with thick trees on each side. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I rise out of the thick cloud of the past. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The thick strings vibrate through my fingers, up my arms, down my chest. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the pools were so thick and dreggy that no one knew what linked in the bottom of them. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Belly down on a thick branch, Naomi settled into the sway and creak of the tree. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The moments begin to come thick and fast and in no particular order. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Whimpering, I tried to shake them away, but then a thick cord coiled around my throat. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her throat felt thick with a wish to say, simply, “You” but she said, “Mark Twain.” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

The cell had two doors: a metal gate or grille with iron bars on the inside and a thick wooden door outside of that. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon the crowd grew so thick that Chess could no longer see where they were going. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Upstairs, Ivy heard her and looked to see what caused the thick music that rocked her neighbor’s breasts. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I yanked on the padlock, but despite a thick encrustation of rust it seemed rock solid. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He closed one eye and then the other and hugged himself with his four thick arms. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

A thick black arrow on the sign points to the pawnshop. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

They fled deeper into the jungle, scrambling through mud and stumbling over thick cypress roots. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

In front of them, flanking the courtyard, plants and trees slept under their thick blankets of snow. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Inside, I found a cream-colored envelope—thick paper, crisp and very formal—but the handwriting was crabbed and childish as a fifth-grader’s, in pencil. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z