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

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

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.

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

But for the sake of their own interest, they had agreed to fence themselves about with a quickset of make-belief, for the concealment of their shame and the protection of their phantom-honour.

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