There should be houses and streets all over the place The trees crowded closer.

The trees crowded around, if not in friendly fashion, still un-threatening.

The hills round about were thickly wooded, and trees crowded the shore.

Eventually the light began to die, and the trees crowded closer together.

They topped the bald rise and started down a long gradual slope where trees crowded close to the driveway.

The farther we went, the more densely the pine trees crowded around us.

Here, in the shelter that the glen gave from the Atlantic gales, the trees crowded close, and reasonably tall.

"It feels like the tropics here -all the trees and the small houses crowded together," he said.

The trees crowded close to the sides and there were rail fences here and there.

Here the trees crowded more closely together, immensely tall, each one trying to push up beyond the others to reach the light.