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

As the English were the assailants, the precaution of posting the archers behind the quickset hedge would have proved unnecessary.

From The Battaile of Agincourt by Garnett, Richard

It was like falling from a quickset hedge on to a bundle of thorns.

From The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville by Tocqueville, Alexis de

A Funny Man There was a man of Newington,   And he was wondrous wise, He jump'd into a quickset hedge   And scratch'd out both his eyes.

From Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 by Cole, E. W. (Edward William)

Its importunity drove me to the other side of the carriage, only to find another quickset hedge behaving similarly.

From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir