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thickly

/ˈθɪkli/ adverb B2
  1. In a thick manner.

Comparative thicklier · Superlative thickliest

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The shore road was “woodsy and wild and lonesome.” On the right hand, scrub firs, their spirits quite unbroken by long years of tussle with the gulf winds, grew thickly.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 54 · C1
As Marilla lifted it out, the sunlight, falling through the vines that clustered thickly about the window, struck upon something caught in the shawl--something that glittered and sparkled in facets of violet light.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 102 · C1
It was fringed in all its length with slim young birches, white stemmed and lissom boughed; ferns and starflowers and wild lilies-of-the-valley and scarlet tufts of pigeonberries grew thickly along it; and always there was a delightful spiciness in the air and music of bird calls and the murmur and laugh of wood winds in the trees overhead.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 107 · C1
Some of the Monkeys seized the Tin Woodman and carried him through the air until they were over a country thickly covered with sharp rocks.
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, p. 83 · B2

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