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
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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
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
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
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)
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.