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

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

Once the Oval was part of Kennington Common; even in 1845 the solid road which circles the ground was no more than a ditch and a quickset hedge.

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh

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

Our gardens were at that time separated only by quickset hedges, so that it was easy to see into each others grounds.

From The Looking-Glass for the Mind or Intellectual Mirror by Bewick, John