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Definition of Thickens
1. thicken [v] - See also: thicken
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thickens
Literary usage of Thickens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Good Words edited by Norman Macleod, Donald Macleod (1886)
"thickens was too just, too careful a man to have been wrong. ... thickens going
to marry skinny Heathery on the sly; or something wrong ? ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1886)
"Miss Heathery chirped out her wishes, and Mr. thickens counted out two sov ...
I always think it so curiously droll, Mr. thickens, your keeping gold and ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"CHAPTER V. Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to the rooky wood. Good things
of day begin to droop and drowse, While night's black agents to their prey ..."
4. The Works of Tobias Smollett by Tobias George Smollett, William Ernest Henley (1900)
"... and Fathom's Plot thickens Such aggravated misfortune could not fail to affect
his temper and deportment: the continual efforts he made to conceal his ..."
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