thick-coming

In a musing mood, Roland Graeme upon the ensuing morning betook himself to the battlements of the Castle, as a spot where he might indulge the course of his thick-coming fancies with least chance of interruption.

The Abbot 2008

While Count Robert was thus reflecting upon his condition, and combating the thick-coming doubts and suspicions which its uncertainties gave rise to, he began to be sensible that he had not eaten for many hours; and amidst many doubts and fears of a more heroic nature, he half entertained a lurking suspicion, that they meant to let hunger undermine his strength before they adventured into the apartment to deal with him.

Count Robert of Paris 2008

They had, however, their own peculiar superstitions, which overclouded the mind with thick-coming fancies, as completely as the puritanism of their neighbours.

A Legend of Montrose 2008

The thick-coming fancies poured and brightened in her head like the smoke and flames upon the hearth.

Lay Morals 2005

Yet, even then, I have checked thick-coming fears with one thought; I would not fear death, for the emotions that linked us must be immortal.

The Last Man 2003

The solitary flower that blossoms by the way-side, the rivulet far away amid the hills, is but the starting point of that wondrous chain of thick-coming fancies, that fill his eyes with light, and his ear with harmony; as if multitudes of angels were hovering around, and he heard on every side the rustling of their wings.

The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 Various

His hours were again vacant to his thick-coming fancies.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 Various

In strolls along these wood-walks, thick-coming fancies rose to her mind, and gradually assumed the forms in which they came forth to the world.

Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh

In the earlier portions of his career a buoyant humour bore him up; and amid thick-coming shapes of ill he bated no jot of heart or hope.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

He grasps and holds and sustains them amidst the multiplicity of upflying thoughts and thick-coming fancies; -- no matter how subtile or how aspiring they may be, he fastens them in the chamber of his imagination until his distant purpose is accomplished, and he has found a language for them which the world will understand.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 Various