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

It stood in a pretty garden, surrounded with a neat quickset hedge, nicely shorn.

From The Fairchild Family by Rudland, Florence M.

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 devil let her go immediately, and she fell into a quickset hedge on the bank of a river; her hair fell disheveled over her neck and shoulders.

From The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. by Christmas, Henry

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