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

The meadow was surrounded by a quickset hedge, so thick as to be an insuperable barrier.

From The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life by Brazil, Angela

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

As the English were the assailants, the precaution of posting the archers behind the quickset hedge would have proved unnecessary.

From The Battaile of Agincourt by Garnett, Richard