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 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)