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

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

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

He was a short, thick man of enormous physical strength, and he sported a beard like a quickset hedge, hence his nickname.

From The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] by Footner, Hulbert

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