Soon, the dense tangle gave way to more finely groomed acreage.

Under that dense tangle of branches one would be out of sight of the stars.

Once beyond the hedge, the trail opened slightly, allowing the sun to penetrate the dense tangle overhead.

Between me and the high wall was a dense tangle of underbrush, barely visible in the dim light.

The words were still on his lips when out of the dense tangle of vegetation rang a shot.

Here there was a huge prostrate log twenty feet in length, curtained with a dense tangle of green briar.

On our right, masked by a dense tangle of fir-boughs, lay a ravine, also a part of the property.

However, the illumination was very weak: light from the moon barely penetrated a dense tangle of fat, gleaming stalks.

Stealthily they approached, keeping to the dense tangle of growing things which made concealment easy to their uncanny jungle craft.

It forms dense tangle mats strong enough to impede passage of boats and prevent angling, swimming and other water-based recreational activities.

Coed Cadw, the Guarding Wood, was a dense tangle of ancient trees: oak, elm, lime, plane-allthe titans of the wood.

Here again a dense tangle of creepers barred his way, but he had no difficulty in opening up a passage through it.

Not only is it steep, but its sides are thickly overgrown with trees, and between their trunks a dense tangle of underwood.

Once over an abrupt dip of land and a dense tangle of thickets, the detectives actually lost the two figures they were following.

A great black horse, which was certainly that of General Savary, had broken out suddenly through a dense tangle of brambles in front of us.

Those on the west (French windows) opened on a loggia; those on the south opened right into the dense tangle of a neglected shrubbery.