"Thicken" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... most vivid memory of her was as she looked with the moonlight on her face in the open field. As the months went on, this gradually grew remote and dim in his remembrance, like a bright star over which the clouds thicken, and his thoughts declined, almost without an upward inspiration, upon the brutal level of his daily life. Mere physical disgust was his first violent recoil from what had seemed a curious deadness of his whole nature, and the awakening ...
— The Deliverance; A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields • Ellen Glasgow
... thicken upon us, and we are come to give an account of such nations with whom the custom of getting drunk was heretofore very much in vogue; and of those with whom this same custom reigns ...
— Ebrietatis Encomium - or, the Praise of Drunkenness • Boniface Oinophilus
... nights grow longer; The headstones thicken along the way, And life grows sadder, but love grows stronger, For those who walk with us day ...
— Poems of Experience • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
... bride.] Lisa, Lisa! You always come like a sunbeam when the clouds thicken—always like a friend in the ...
— Lucky Pehr • August Strindberg
... one head of celery and put on to cook in one pint of water. Boil until tender, add one pint of milk, thicken with a spoonful of butter, season to taste, and strain. Then add one cupful of whipped ...
— Good Things to Eat as Suggested by Rufus • Rufus Estes
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