He was a thick set man, and of a strong Constitution […]

More than ever Min hated her own thickset, healthy body, her round, red face with its small gray eyes, the mop of auburn hair which Aunt Julie braided so tightly […]

The glass door opened and there entered a thick-set, mud-bespattered, weather-beaten dock laborer with bare head and bare feet.

Things edible would always be respected by a man who had nearly starved to death. The laborers, too, in white smocks, broad and heavy, a thickset personnel, butchers’ men.

Standing in her entrance, two men in white silk suits and butterfly-looking lace bow ties, black instrument cases by their side and black-brimmed white hats in their hands–my father, Nestor Castillo, thin and broad-shouldered, and Uncle Cesar, thickset and immense.

1581, Thomas Newton (translator), Thebais in Seneca His Tenne Tragedies, London: Thomas Marsh, Act 2, p. 48,
[…] let me be allowde
To lurke behinde this Craggy Rocke, or els my selfe to hyde
On backside of some thickset hedge:

1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, London: M. Lownes et al., Song 1, p. 11,
[…] Corineus ran
With slaughter through the thick-set squadrons of the foes;

[…] though his Beard not oft corrected,
Yet neare it growes, not like a Beard neglected
From head to heele, his body hath all over,

The beauteous Love-Eye burning in the Heart;
From whence Loves Centres endless multiply,
As thick-set Spangles of the Sky,
Raising a Sting of Joy in ev’ry Part.

His [the boar’s] Neck shoots up a thick-set thorny Wood;
His bristled Back a Trench impal’d appears,
And stands erected, like a Field of Spears.

My heart is like an appletree
Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;

It was for the arc of lanterned boats to close in and to form the thickset audience, armed and impenetrable.

1583, John Foxe, Acts and Monuments, London: John Day, Book 4, “The tragicall historie of Gregorie the vij. otherwise named Hildebrand,” p. 177,
[…] in a vessell being thick set with sharpe nayles, he tormented him to the poynt of death:

The sides of the Church were so thick set with Pictures, that it seem’d to be made in imitation of Plato’s Den, where one could see nothing but shadowes.

A huge cherry-tree grew outside, so close that its boughs tapped against the house, and it was so thick-set with blossoms that hardly a leaf was to be seen.

[…] he came to the house of the King of the Gnomes, which was inside a mountain and as thickset with jewels as the grass with dew on a fine morning.

1858, Edward Bulwer-Lytton (as Pisistratus Caxton), What Will He Do with It? Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, Volume 4, Book 11, Chapter 7, p. 294,
Had Darrell been placed amidst the circumstances that make happy the homes of earnest men, Darrell would have been mirthful; had Waife been placed amongst the circumstances that concentrate talent, and hedge round life with trained thicksets and belting laurels, Waife would have been grave.

1812, George Crabbe, Tales, London: J. Hatchard, Tale 4, “Procrastination,” p. 73,
When he, with thickset coat of Badge-man’s blue,
Moves near her shaded silk of changeful hue;

1829, anonymous contributor, “A Day at Fontainebleau.—The Royal Hunt,” The Monthly Magazine, New Series, Volume 7, No. 37, January 1829, p. 12,
His breeches were of the homeliest thickset;

[…] his coat was originally what is called a thickset, but out at the elbows;

I had observed that our landlord wore, on that memorable morning, a pair of bran new velveteens instead of his ancient thicksets.

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