11.  The warm coastal breeze still makes the thick stands of bamboo creak and groan like a spooky old house in winter.

12.  There will be thick stands of timber, still-blooming wildflowers and wonderful vistas.

13.  We ride past thick stands of tulip poplars, sycamores and persimmons, bracing ourselves as we descend steep, deep-rutted slopes.

14.  Agha Gul, a businessman familiar with this part of eastern Afghanistan, pointed to an arid outcropping over a thick stand of trees.

15.  Fireplace chimneys were all that were standing in what once were picturesque homes nestled in thick stands of big trees.

16.  The Navy permitted journalists a brief visit to the crash site Monday, and the bulk of the wreckage was barely visible through a thick stand of oak trees.