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"ref": "1862, Christina Rossetti, “A Birthday”, in Goblin Market and Other Poems, London: Macmillan, page 56:",
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"text": "1581, Thomas Newton (translator), Thebais in Seneca His Tenne Tragedies, London: Thomas Marsh, Act 2, p. 48,\n[…] let me be allowde\nTo lurke behinde this Craggy Rocke, or els my selfe to hyde\nOn backside of some thickset hedge:"
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"text": "1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, London: M. Lownes et al., Song 1, p. 11,\n[…] Corineus ran\nWith slaughter through the thick-set squadrons of the foes;"
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"ref": "1635, John Taylor, The olde, old, very olde man: or the age and long life of Thomas Par, London: Henry Gosson:",
"text": "[…] though his Beard not oft corrected,\nYet neare it growes, not like a Beard neglected\nFrom head to heele, his body hath all over,\nA Quick-set, Thick-set nat’rall hairy cover.",
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"ref": "1696, Jane Leade, “Solomon’s Porch: or the Beautiful Gate of Wisdom’s Temple”, in A Fountain of Gardens, London:",
"text": "The beauteous Love-Eye burning in the Heart;\nFrom whence Loves Centres endless multiply,\nAs thick-set Spangles of the Sky,\nRaising a Sting of Joy in ev’ry Part.",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "1700, “Meleager and Atalanta, Out of the Eighth Book of Ovid’s Metamorphosis”, in John Dryden, transl., Fables Ancient and Modern, London: Jacob Tonson, page 106:",
"text": "His [the boar’s] Neck shoots up a thick-set thorny Wood;\nHis bristled Back a Trench impal’d appears,\nAnd stands erected, like a Field of Spears.",
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"ref": "1862, Christina Rossetti, “A Birthday”, in Goblin Market and Other Poems, London: Macmillan, page 56:",
"text": "My heart is like an appletree\nWhose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;",
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"ref": "1950, Mervyn Peake, chapter 77, in Gormenghast, London: Eyre and Spottiswoode:",
"text": "It was for the arc of lanterned boats to close in and to form the thickset audience, armed and impenetrable.",
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"text": "a gully thickset with brambles",
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"text": "1583, John Foxe, Acts and Monuments, London: John Day, Book 4, “The tragicall historie of Gregorie the vij. otherwise named Hildebrand,” p. 177,\n[…] in a vessell being thick set with sharpe nayles, he tormented him to the poynt of death:"
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"ref": "1660, Nathaniel Ingelo, Bentivolio and Urania, London: Richard Marriot, Book 3, p. 134:",
"text": "The sides of the Church were so thick set with Pictures, that it seem’d to be made in imitation of Plato’s Den, where one could see nothing but shadowes.",
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"ref": "1908, Lucy Maud Montgomery, chapter 4, in Anne of Green Gables:",
"text": "A huge cherry-tree grew outside, so close that its boughs tapped against the house, and it was so thick-set with blossoms that hardly a leaf was to be seen.",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "1929, Carl Grabo, chapter 7, in The Cat in Grand-Father’s House, Chicago: Laidlaw Brothers, page 99:",
"text": "[…] he came to the house of the King of the Gnomes, which was inside a mountain and as thickset with jewels as the grass with dew on a fine morning.",
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"sense": "having a short heavy build or stature",
"word": "pönäkkä"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "having a short heavy build or stature",
"word": "untersetzt"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "having a short heavy build or stature",
"word": "dicht"
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"sense": "having a short heavy build or stature",
"word": "zömök"
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"sense": "having a short heavy build or stature",
"word": "tıknaz"
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"sense": "having a short heavy build or stature",
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"sense": "having a short heavy build or stature",
"word": "síngbọnlẹ̀"
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"word": "гъсто засаден"
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"text": "1858, Edward Bulwer-Lytton (as Pisistratus Caxton), What Will He Do with It? Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, Volume 4, Book 11, Chapter 7, p. 294,\nHad Darrell been placed amidst the circumstances that make happy the homes of earnest men, Darrell would have been mirthful; had Waife been placed amongst the circumstances that concentrate talent, and hedge round life with trained thicksets and belting laurels, Waife would have been grave."
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"text": "1812, George Crabbe, Tales, London: J. Hatchard, Tale 4, “Procrastination,” p. 73,\nWhen he, with thickset coat of Badge-man’s blue,\nMoves near her shaded silk of changeful hue;"
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"text": "1829, anonymous contributor, “A Day at Fontainebleau.—The Royal Hunt,” The Monthly Magazine, New Series, Volume 7, No. 37, January 1829, p. 12,\nHis breeches were of the homeliest thickset;"
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"ref": "1785, John Trusler, chapter 17, in Modern Times: or the Adventures of Gabriel Outcast, volume 2, London: for the author, page 27:",
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"ref": "1819, Walter Scott, chapter 1, in The Bride of Lammermoor:",
"text": "I had observed that our landlord wore, on that memorable morning, a pair of bran new velveteens instead of his ancient thicksets.",
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