dense-looking

Updated: May 8, 2025

Here was a market-town very much like Treddleston where the arms of the neighbouring lord of the manor were borne on the sign of the principal inn; then mere fields and hedges, their vicinity to a market-town carrying an agreeable suggestion of high rent, till the land began to assume a trimmer look, the woods were more frequent, and at length a white or red mansion looked down from a moderate eminence, or allowed him to be aware of its parapet and chimneys among the dense-looking masses of oaks and elms masses reddened now with early buds.

George Eliot - Adam Bede

Further off, to the east, there was a big hill, crowned with a dense-looking forest which, as far as he could see, was deserted. The Colonel, who was not to be deceived by a new appearance of quietude, had somehow made his way to the little copse, and was examining the hill with his glasses. The Adjutant, who had followed him, presently rose to his feet.

- Contemptible, by "Casualty"