If I was compelled to leave you without much news during the early days of my mission you must acknowledge that I am making up for lost time, and that events are now crowding thick and fast upon us.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
It was drifting slowly in our direction and banked itself up like a wall on that side of us, low but thick and well defined.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
The latter was a small, alert, dark-eyed man about thirty years of age, very sturdily built, with thick black eyebrows and a strong, pugnacious face.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
There were pride, valour, and strength in his thick brows, his sensitive nostrils, and his large hazel eyes.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
Rolling pasture lands curved upward on either side of us, and old gabled houses peeped out from amid the thick green foliage, but behind the peaceful and sunlit countryside there rose ever, dark against the evening sky, the long, gloomy curve of the moor, broken by the jagged and sinister hills.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
The thick-iron ferrule is worn down, so it is evident that he has done a great amount of walking with it.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
I suppose it is pretty thick, now that you mention it.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
“I seem to have walked right into the thick of a dime novel,” said our visitor.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a “Penang lawyer.”
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
At every rise Holmes looked eagerly round him, but the shadows were thick upon the moor, and nothing moved upon its dreary face.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
The moor has been thick with them since this fellow escaped.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
“Thick! It is intolerable.”
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
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Merriam-Webster
— having or being of relatively great depth or extent from one surface to its opposite
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Macmillan
— a thick object or material has a long distance between two opposite sides, edges, or surfaces
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Other Word Forms
thicker
thickest
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12 uses of ‘thick’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle