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Posed against an outdoor, thickety background, the handsome, long-faced sisters in floor-length gowns could be protagonists in a Brontë novel.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2010

At 9,800 feet, southern face of ridge bare, northern thickety, consisting of Rhododendron fruticosum, foliis ellipticis basi cordatis punctato lepidotis, Salix, Berberis, Pyrus aria, Bambusa, Tetranthera.

From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by Griffith, William

In the autumn it is found in hedgerows, thickets and weedy grainfields, rarely however, straying far from some thickety cover.

From Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [January, 1898] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life by Various

The road soon was among the hills; rough, thickety, wild; from one glen into another, down and up steep ridge sides, always mounting of course by degrees.

From Daisy in the Field by Warner, Susan

In this thickety covert the fugitive made his final stand, taking refuge in an immense old live-oak, the mossy festoons of which partially screened him from view.

From A Texas Matchmaker by Adams, Andy