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 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

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

I saw her just now by the quickset beyant, in her velvet hat and feathers, and my lord saw her too, no doubt.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis

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