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

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

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)

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

The meadow was surrounded by a quickset hedge, so thick as to be an insuperable barrier.

From The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life by Brazil, Angela