Actually sat in a beach chair or lay on sandy bedsheets and plowed through thick novels and real books.
As the last workday of the week dawned, subway lines plodded along at slower speeds throughout the city, city buses plowed through thick meringues of snow and most commuter rail lines from Long Island and the northern suburbs were running late — some by nearly an hour as crews worked to clear fallen trees from the tracks.
By Sunday morning, Dulles International outside Washington was handling arriving flights while still plowing away a thick blanket of snow, and Baltimore-Washington International Airport was trying to restore full operations.
The police officer plowed through a thick layer of smoke toward the kitchen, where he found an elderly woman leaning up against a wall, and guided her to safety.
One explorer remarked that the Platte was "too thick to drink, too thin to plow".
They flew into Chicago after a heavy snowstorm, with thick clouds and only a single lane plowed on the runway… When off duty, the writer took out his Olivetti typewriter and wrote "The Pattern of Thamas Hardy's Poetry".
[C11.] Turning Cars Into Snow Plows An inventor in Wilton, Conn., has designed a plow blade for his car that is five millimeters thick, made of steel and can be attached to the pre-existing tabs on a car chassis, called ears, which are normally used for tying a car down during shipping.
On a similar cruise six years ago, he recalled, the icebreaker plowed through an icecap six to nine feet thick at the North Pole.
In Vermont the soil is sandy and falls easily away from the plow blade but in Illinois the soil is thicker and wetter; it stuck to the plow and had to be scraped off by the farmer as he plowed.
As the Laurentide ice sheet retreated into Canada, it left behind chunks of ice as thick as 60 feet that the force of the glacier had plowed into the earth.
