They were thick with the rank secondary growth many on in Africa.

Cautiously we moved through the rank growth of the swamp to the place on the river bank where I had washed my clothes and bathed.

The ground was almost hidden by a rank growth of vegetation, but here and there appeared glade-like openings.

There was no one, he feared, whom they might now ask to clear away the rank growth.

Once outside the boundaries of our camp of the past week, the grass matted the ground with its rank young growth.

The green of the rank growth below, thought Val, seemed intensified by the strange yellowish light.

He turned and started back through the slanting, late-afternoon sunlight toward the rank growth along the river bank.

The swampy shores, rank growth, and strange dreams of the place soon turned us back.

He pointed east, toward the rank green growth of the Wilderness.

Pushing through the rank second growth of the Wilderness was even worse in the evening twilight than it had been during the day.