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

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

From head to heel, his body had all over A quickset, thickset, nat’ral, hairy cover.”

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old

A little white gate stood in the quickset hedge, which Lady Isobel opened, and there, in a pretty rustic garden, was a white-washed cottage with a thatched roof and old-fashioned casement windows.

From 'Me and Nobbles' by Le Feuvre, Amy

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