11.   Thick forest stood on either hand.

12.   They walked through thick forest.

13.   The truck climbed steeply, the sound of its engine echoing back from thick forest.

14.   Because the thick forests of the Ardennes looked like tough going, even for tanks, they were left virtually undefended.

15.   Blackwolf Run, with fairways and greens that weave their way through the thick forests near Kohler, Wis., would have eaten her alive.

16.   A narrow trail leads into a thick forest of spruce.

17.   But a thick forest of scrub pine and oak kept the fire racing across acres of sparsely settled acreage once the flames spread outside the state forest.

18.   But Covington said that a far more extensive effort of thinning the thick forests beyond the laboratory might have made all the difference.

19.   From Cima, the Morning Star Mine Road leads through yet more thick Joshua tree forest to Nipton Road.

20.   Here at Wachusett Reservoir, where thick forests surround billions of gallons of water bound for Boston, officials are preparing for a horror that is no longer unimaginable.