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 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 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

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

On commons and reclaimed land they took the place of the quickset hedges seen around richer farm lands.

From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Earle, Alice Morse