Thicker

Examples

• Gentlemen all, observe the dark stain upon this gentleman's hat, no wider than a shilling, but thicker than a half-crown. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• It is a thick skull, thicker than that of any living race of men, and it has a brain capacity intermediate between that of Pithecanthropus and man. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Then he tried to push through, but it grew thicker and thicker, and he was in despair. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• As we stood waiting for Xodar the smoke became thicker and thicker. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The cost of the same number of wires at the present day would not be one-half that sum, with thicker wires and better insulation. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• The picture can’t be properly printed without thicker ink. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Locksley returned almost instantly with a willow wand about six feet in length, perfectly straight, and rather thicker than a man's thumb. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• By-the-bye, I must have mine in mind; it won't do to neglect her; she is a Fairfax, or wed to one; and blood is said to be thicker than water. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Thus, Bentley Drummle had come to Mr. Pocket when he was a head taller than that gentleman, and half a dozen heads thicker than most gentlemen. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• His hair and whiskers were blacker and thicker, looked at so near, than even I had given them credit for being. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The mystery in that quarter is thicker than ever, he said. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The cloth was thicker than anything of the kind I had ever seen, even in Canada. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Three hundred such layers placed one on top of the other would make a sheet no thicker than tissue-paper. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• At the narrow end it is then sawed four ways toward the thicker end, a distance of seven inches. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• With this he applied to the original record a film of gold probably no thicker than one three-hundred-thousandth of an inch, or several hundred times less than the depth of an average wave. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The viola is larger than the violin, has heavier and thicker strings, and is pitched to a lower key; in all other respects the two are similar. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• I have seen him do the summerset several times together, upon a trencher fixed on a rope which is no thicker than a common packthread in England. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• If you were wrapped in a thicker shawl---- I might stay longer, and forget how late it is, which would chagrin Mrs. Pryor. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• At the thicker end, a sawing-out process creates an opening, so that the butt and shaft can dovetail to a depth of seven inches. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• If it is desired the soap can be made thicker by adding less water. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• So long as the current flows and there is any metal present in the solution, the coating continues to form on the negative electrode, and becomes thicker and thicker. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• A shingle is a thin piece of wood, thicker at one end than at the other, having parallel sides, about three times as long as it is wide, having generally smooth surfaces and edges. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The stretching and drawing of these thicker parts down to a uniform size by the receding of the carriage is the distinctive feature of its action. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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