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

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

Once the Oval was part of Kennington Common; even in 1845 the solid road which circles the ground was no more than a ditch and a quickset hedge.

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh

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

As the English were the assailants, the precaution of posting the archers behind the quickset hedge would have proved unnecessary.

From The Battaile of Agincourt by Garnett, Richard