quickset

Example Sentences

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Soon they reached the road and Hazel halted among the quickset on top of the nearer bank.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

The little garden a-bloom in front was encircled by a white paling fence and a quickset hedge.

From A Woman's Burden by Hume, Fergus

Halting his carriage for a moment, Stapylton jumped out and drew nigh the little quickset hedge which flanked the road.

From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

The devil let her go immediately, and she fell into a quickset hedge on the bank of a river; her hair fell disheveled over her neck and shoulders.

From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Christmas, Henry

He was a short, thick man of enormous physical strength, and he sported a beard like a quickset hedge, hence his nickname.

From The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] by Footner, Hulbert