They grew thicker and thicker and the scent nearly overpowered the boy.
In contact metamorphism, thin sheets of molten rock produce less effect than thicker ones.
Nevertheless Lee, full of daring despite his years, followed, and the dangers were growing thicker every hour around Pope.
The neck of the funnel, being more often walked upon than the rest of the dwelling, is therefore provided with a thicker upholstery.
I'd have come out half-way, and the first time an automobile passed and made the dark thicker when its lamps disappeared, I'd have come in."
The vertical bounding walls are edges of the perforated metal containing tube; the dark horizontal lines are layers of nickel flake, while the light-colored thicker layers represent the nickel hydrate.
As we neared the center of the town the houses stood thicker, ran together as it were, grew into rambling palaces grouped among parks and open squares, something as college buildings stand in their quiet greens.
In one, sailors were singing at their work, in another there were men aloft, high over my head, hanging to threads that seemed no thicker than a spider's. Though I had lived by the shore all my life, I seemed never to have been near the sea till then.