thickly-populated

It is for the possession of these thickly-populated regions, and of the northern ice-cap, that the three powers are constantly struggling.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

It is for the possession of these thickly-populated regions, and of the northern ice-cap, that the three powers are constantly struggling.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

There was Lower Mellstock, the main village; half a mile from this were the church and vicarage, and a few other houses, the spot being rather lonely now, though in past centuries it had been the most thickly-populated quarter of the parish.

Under the Greenwood Tree 2006

I think that sheep and barn-door fowls do better for everybody in the long run, and that men who cannot live without shooting should go beyond thickly-populated regions to find it.

Phineas Redux 2004

I call your attention to this because, in my mind, our experience may have a validity for all the underdeveloped and thickly-populated countries of Asia.

The Role of Free China in the Free World 1961

It is for the possession of these thickly-populated regions, and of the northern ice-cap, that the three powers are constantly struggling.

Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949

At night you will hear the shrill cry of the screech-owl sounding down the silent streets in the most thickly-populated parts of the city.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

For more than sixty years Governor-General after Governor-General had pointed out the impossibility of a civilized Government tolerating in the midst of its possessions the misrule, disorder, and debauchery which were desolating one of the most fertile and thickly-populated districts in India.

Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

I cannot remember a hotter day, and we were marching through a thickly-populated mining district -- the villages were uncomfortably like those round Dour.

Adventures of a Despatch Rider William Henry Lowe Watson

The proposition, then, soon to be submitted for public approval is this: to erect in the suburbs of our large towns and cities, perhaps even in their most thickly-populated parts, extensive and handsome edifices that will provide sanitary Sepulchres for the dead.

The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, No. 733, January 11, 1890 Various