thickets

I can't really see more that 50 yards anywhere, and trying to follow a blood trail through the thickets is almost impossible.

The Great Overbore Conundrum 2008

Look around areas where bucks spend their winters and where bucks have to jump (fences, ditches, creeks and fallen trees) or in thickets where the horns may be snagged by vines and brush.

deer sheds 2009

Look around areas where bucks spend their winters and where bucks have to jump (fences, ditches, creeks and fallen trees) or in thickets where the horns may be snagged by vines and brush.

deer sheds 2009

The exchange of fire in thickets corroborated eye-witness accounts that some of the hoodlums were armed with guns.

Police kill 2003

We know that the Hebrews sometimes took refuge from their enemies in thickets

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Leopards lurk in thickets and thence spring on their victims. observe -- that is, lie in wait for them.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

On every hand were up-shooting young pines, struggling oaks that were caught in thickets of cedar, and ashes and elms that were humbly asking leave to spread and see the light and reach their heads up to freedom and free air.

The Hills of the Shatemuc 1856

At length, nearly three long centuries after the Genoese had crossed the ocean, the white man came to plant a home on this spot, and it was then the great change began; the axe and the saw, the forge and the wheel, were busy from dawn to dusk, cows and swine fed in thickets whence the wild beasts had fled, while the ox and the horse drew away in chains the fallen trunks of the forest.

Rural Hours 1887

But the great sport was to stalk bush-buck in the thickets, which is a game in which the hunter is at small advantage.

Prester John 2005

Patsy spun a hundred threads of fancy into tales about the forest, while the tinker called the thickets about them full of birds, and whistled their songs antiphonally with them.

Seven Miles to Arden Ruth Sawyer 1925