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

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

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

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