"Thickish" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... at that!" yelled the cook, as there was a scuffling rush, and a thickish snake, about seven feet long, dashed out from its nest and made ...
— Fitz the Filibuster • George Manville Fenn
... Henry (Goosefoot) grows abundantly in waste places near villages, being a dark green, succulent plant, about a foot high, with thickish arrow-shaped leaves, which are cooked as spinach, especially in Lincolnshire. It is sometimes called Blite, from the Greek bliton, insipid; and, as Evelyn says, in his Acetaria, "it is well named, being ...
— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie |
