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

Its importunity drove me to the other side of the carriage, only to find another quickset hedge behaving similarly.

From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

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

A quickset hedge bounded the last field; they lost time in seeking a gap in it.

From Shirley by Brontë, Charlotte

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