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

To see a quickset hedge again ... we sighed.

From Aliens by McFee, William

Our gardens were at that time separated only by quickset hedges, so that it was easy to see into each others grounds.

From The Looking-Glass for the Mind or Intellectual Mirror by Bewick, John

The present hour I am in a quickset of embarrassments, and whichever way I turn, a thorn runs into me!

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 by Various

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)