11.   Text, icons and illustrations knot together in dense thickets of symbolic meaning.

12.   The giant cats once roamed from Southern California to eastern Texas and were common in the dense thickets along the lower Nueces and Guadalupe rivers.

13.   The Islamic Line, say its founders, helps them negotiate the often dense thicket of religious tradition on any issue.

14.   The morning air is refreshingly crisp as a half-dozen horses lope gently through a dense thicket of pine trees and emerge into a sunny mountaintop clearing.

15.   The panels are surrounded by dense thickets of foliage, including lotus and peony blossoms in yellow, aqua, lime green and periwinkle.

16.   There was a loud splash back in the dense thicket.

17.   Unpopular decisions have been made before, without much evident sense of shame or self-policing in the dense little thicket of figure skating.