But his images, while legible, relied on a highly abstract repertory of quick dabs, thick swaths and thin washes of paint.

The five of them sat huddled about it in thick swaths of conjured fabric, joined by others, staggering in one at a time.

Across the waist of the disc he drew the thick swath of the tropics.

Toby saw that a long thick swath was a side view of half the disk, the wrath and roil of it replaced by a single shading.

Blood oozes from neck wounds and dribbles from mouths in thick swaths; it looks like chocolate syrup, which doesn't make the images any less upsetting.

Many of these trees growing in thick swaths came from seeds released after the 1995 Mt. Vision fire.

She averts her face shyly, and the tip of a peaked ear peeps out from beneath her thick swath of black hair.

Around it was a surprisingly thick swath of trees, interspersed with what Chika told him were embassies on the edge of the Akasaka district.

But for about two centuries, those quarters extended from Boston's Back Bay to Philadelphia's Main Line, with a thick swath down Fifth Avenue.

One reached for a beer, and Nicholas saw a thick swath of elaborate irizumi, the tattoos favored by Yakuza.