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

On trees they never perch; though one or two may occasionally be seen settled on a quickset hedge or a railing.

From British Birds in their Haunts by Johns, Rev. C. A.

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

Then, seeing that Bertie had picked himself up, and was preparing to escape by scrambling through a quickset hedge into a field of uncut hay-- "Stop!" he cried.

From A Hero of Romance by Marsh, Richard

Again she paused for footsteps, and there was nothing but the drip-drip, drip-drip of the fog in the quickset hedge.

From Carnival by MacKenzie, Compton