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

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)

It was like falling from a quickset hedge on to a bundle of thorns.

From The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville by Tocqueville, Alexis de

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

A little white gate stood in the quickset hedge, which Lady Isobel opened, and there, in a pretty rustic garden, was a white-washed cottage with a thatched roof and old-fashioned casement windows.

From 'Me and Nobbles' by Le Feuvre, Amy