The land, as the trees thinned, became pretty in a different way.
After a while the trees thinned and she found herself in a clearing.
But the trees were thinning now, and suddenly she was out of them.
As we mounted the rise it followed, the trees thinned even more.
All the way to the right and beyond, through a place where the trees thinned a little, I could see what was probably a farmhouse.
The trees were thinning now and once over the crest the group would be on open ground.
After a short time they reached a place where the trees thinned.
The trees were thinning now, and he was drawing farther away from the camp.
The trees thinned as they came to the top of a rise.
As they came up the saddle, the trees thinned again.