The route was choked with rugged lava-rocks, creepers and bushes, so thickly overgrown that when Kearton lost sight of Ulyate and called, Ulyate answered from ten feet away.

It was in a wild district, thickly covered with pine forests and brushwood.

A February 2, 1893 article in the New York Sun stated that, " Every groan from the fiend, every contortion of his body was cheered by the thickly packed crowd.

Some, therefore, of the miserable remnant, being taken in the mountains, were murdered in great numbers ; others, constrained by famine, came and yielded themselves to be slaves for ever to their foes, running the risk of being instantly slain, which truly was the greatest favour that could be offered them: some others passed beyond the seas with loud lamentations instead of the voice of exhortation ... Others, committing the safeguard of their lives, which were in continual jeopardy, to the mountains, precipices, thickly wooded forests, and to the rocks of the seas ( albeit with trembling hearts ), remained still in their country.

By fighting lifetimes of war, they discovered that heavily armoured spear infantry was very effective in breaking apart thickly defended areas and charging cavalry units.

Davidson details that it would be difficult to ascertain whether a tree or pillar came first, and that this likely depends on if the holy location was in a thickly wooded area or not.

By the 19th century, the site of the ancient city was wholly desolate, with the exception of a solitary guardhouse, and the ground for the most part thickly overgrown with shrubs and low brushwood ; but the remains of the walls could be distinctly traced throughout a great part of their circuit.

To the left of his army was a thickly wooded park.

On all this again earth had been piled to a depth sufficient for the roots of the largest trees ; and the ground, when levelled off, was thickly planted with trees of every kind that, by their great size or other charm, could give pleasure to the beholder.

In the meantime the necessary organization of the inhabitants of this thickly populated district was in a measure supplied by grouping them round important shrines, especially that of Diana Tifatina, in connection with which a pagus Dianae existed, as we learn from many inscriptions ; a pagus Herculaneus is also known.

The extreme length of the city was little less than a mile, and the whole intramural area is still thickly strewn with architectural remains.

Argolic was spoken in the thickly settled northeast Peloponnesus at, for example, Argos, Mycenae, Hermione, Troezen, Epidaurus, and as close to Athens as the island of Aegina.

Ottawa history records that Emmet County was thickly populated by a race of Indians that they called the Mush-co-desh, which means, " the Prairie tribe.

Once known as " The City of Trees ," the town was thickly forested until the 1970s, when Dutch elm disease caused many old trees to be cut down.

Oakley's original name was " Oak Creek ", derived from the name of a creek that ran just east of the present town site and that was thickly overgrown with oak trees.

In 1940, it was described as " Fife ... at a valley crossroads in the midst of a thickly settled berry growing and truck-gardening district is represented by a string of markets, taverns, shops, and a large, balloon-roofed dance hall along the highway.

In the nineteenth century the Mountlake Terrace site was thickly forested.

Part of these men came from the Frankfort District along Patterson Creek, likely Frankfort, as it was more thickly settled than any other section at that time.

Despite such concerns the area was a tangle of rough country thickly covered in heavy brush well suited for deploying light infantry.

He also stated that flea powder was the " staff of life " and that the cabins were thickly sooted from the use of smudge pots.

Another method was to apply the clay thickly at the back but thinly at the edge, providing a lesser amount of insulation.

The wild hop scrub grew thickly, and the hidden ground was full

Known chiefly for his thickly impastoed portrait and figure paintings, he was widely considered the pre-eminent British artist of his time.

He settled on the sofa with his coffee, warming his hands on the cup, although the room was heavy with heat.

Her voice was ripe and full and her teeth flashed again in Sicilian brilliance before the warm curved lips met and her mouth settled in repose.

At the time Alex arrived he was engaged in some sort of intimate communication with the hen, who had settled herself on the nest most peacefully after the occurrences of the morning.

He said that the propriety or impropriety of such a gathering was a question that was to be settled by every man in accordance with the convictions of private judgments.

The increase in oxygen uptake rates from 1.2 to 2.6 mg/l/hr which followed an increase in rotor speed was believed to be related to resuspension of solids which had settled at the lower rotor speeds.

After every money argument, she rebuffed her husband's overtures until the matter was settled in her favor.

The issue was settled on shore, Greene winning and Wilson remaining ashore, determined to catch the next fishing boat back to England.

Once the question of emancipation was settled to Palfrey's satisfaction, he faced a real problem in placing the freedmen in suitable homes as servants.

She finally settled in Fall River and, after being employed for a time by a Mrs. Reed, was hired by the Bordens.

Hengesbach, who has been living on welfare recently, said he hopes to rebuild the farm which was settled by his grandfather in Westphalia, 27 miles southwest of here.

Her hesitation was only momentary and she hoped he didn't notice it, as she settled herself, asked quickly how Miss Jenny and the babies were getting on.

First, it came out after Mr. Cooper's will was settled -- he had died the year before -- that John and his mother weren't rich any more.

One of my private patients was being admitted and I went in to see her settled.

The trouble with them was that they almost never worked, and in fact an agreement `` in principle '' historically turned out to be a sure sign that neither party really wanted the quarrel settled.

Nobel later on combined nitroglycerin with various nitrocellulose compounds, similar to collodion, but settled on a more efficient recipe combining another nitrate explosive, and obtained a transparent, jelly-like substance, which was a more powerful explosive than dynamite.

Beginning with the Bronze Age Collapse at the end of the 2nd millennium BC, the west coast of Anatolia was settled by Ionian Greeks, usurping the related but earlier Mycenaean Greeks.

He argued Congress could not decide either for or against slavey before a territory was settled.

Named in honour of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to King William IV, the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for a freely settled British province in Australia.

The question of the regency was settled, and a form of Lutheranism was adopted and declared binding on all teachers and preachers.

Mark J. Hudson Professor of Anthropology at Nishikyushu University, Kanzaki, Saga, Japan, said Japan was settled by a " Proto-Mongoloid " population in the Pleistocene who became the Jōmon and their features can be seen in the Ainu and Okinawan people.

They settled down near Kurile Lake, which was inhabited by the Kamchatka Ainu and North Kuril Ainu.

Among the Visigoths settled in Lower Moesia, the situation was ripe for rebellion.