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

I saw her just now by the quickset beyant, in her velvet hat and feathers, and my lord saw her too, no doubt.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Wingfield, Lewis

Halting his carriage for a moment, Stapylton jumped out and drew nigh the little quickset hedge which flanked the road.

From Barrington Volume II (of II) by Lever, Charles James

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

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)