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Thickly

adverb

Spoken with poor articulation as if with a thick tongue.

In a concentrated manner. Synonym: densely. "A thickly populated area"

With a thick consistency. Synonym: thick.

With thickness; in a thick manner. "We were visiting a small, thickly walled and lovely town with straggling outskirt"

In quick succession. Synonym: thick.

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"Thickly" Quotes from Famous Books

... House, like Maria, never moved; it existed comfortably; it seemed independent of busy, hurrying Time. So thickly covered was it with ivy and various creepers that the trees on the lawn wondered why it did not grow bigger like themselves. They remembered the time when they looked up to it, whereas now they looked over it easily, and even their ...

— The Extra Day • Algernon Blackwood

... nothing more efficacious than flour. It ought to be thickly applied over the part affected, and should be kept in its place either with a rag and a bandage, or with, strips of old linen. If this be done, almost instantaneous relief will be experienced, and the burn or the scald, if ...

— Advice to a Mother on the Management of her Children • Pye Henry Chavasse

... getting all our horses to the water; three of them are very bad; two have been down a dozen times during the journey to-day. On approaching the range, we passed through some large patches of kangaroo grass, growing very thickly, and reaching to my shoulder ...

— Explorations in Australia, The Journals of John McDouall Stuart • John McDouall Stuart

... a long table draped in black were seated twelve men, mostly old men. There were benches along the sides of the hall, filled with the most distinguished of Florence. The galleries, which were above, were thickly crowded with spectators. When I had stepped towards the table covered with black cloth, a man with a gloomy and sad countenance rose; it was the Governor. He said to the assembly that he as the father in this ...

— The Severed Hand - From "German Tales" Published by the American Publishers' Corporation • Wilhelm Hauff

... him. Under water he turned round and came up again as if in flight towards the middle of the river. Directly his head reappeared Mr. Polly had him between the shoulders and under again, bubbling thickly. ...

— The History of Mr. Polly • H. G. Wells

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