Behind the hedgerow was a meadow, one not terribly tidy, with winter-browned grass. From Wordnik.com. [Ordermaster]
Nice book, some lovely mixed "hedgerow" type baskets too. From Wordnik.com. [Stripping the Willow.] Reference
Here, an image of the solar chromosphere showing a "hedgerow" of spicules, or jets of dense plasma that shoot up from the chromosphere. From Wordnik.com. [Livescience.com] Reference
The hedgerow loomed like a mountain-ridge before him. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
Wood, meadow, and hedgerow were bathed in liquid blue. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
And very pretty looked that hedgerow on this same morning. From Wordnik.com. [Parables from Flowers] Reference
Spring flower and very common amongst the grass of every hedgerow. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
You can't measure progress by, you know, which hedgerow we've taken. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 22, 2002] Reference
Mat was already headed toward the wild hedgerow alongside the roadway. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of the World]
He flinched as the hedgerow loomed dangerously close in the headlights. From Wordnik.com. [Fox Evil]
They were sauntering slowly down the hedgerow walk, their backs toward her. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
There was a hedged garden opposite the house, with four poplars in the hedgerow. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
German machine-gun, a robin has deliberately built its nest in a local hedgerow. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 7th, 1920] Reference
They are ahead of him, perched patiently in the trees that dot fence or hedgerow. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference
How I wish my old hedgerow friends could but be present to witness my reception! '. From Wordnik.com. [Parables from Flowers] Reference
On that never-to-be-forgotten night danger seemed to be lurking in every hedgerow. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
"Nothing," Cormik said darkly, scrambling out of the hedgerow he had been searching. From Wordnik.com. [Curse of the Shadowmage]
'From a hedgerow,' was the reply, but uttered so that all around her heard the answer. From Wordnik.com. [Parables from Flowers] Reference
He braced his hands against the dashboard as the hedgerow slapped the side of the car. From Wordnik.com. [Fox Evil]
In the hedgerow it had been mere existence; for there had been no real scope for his tail. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
With every light breeze that crept down the hedgerow now came the rustle of the falling leaf. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
Each field is also surrounded by these hedgerow-trees, which are cut every four or five years. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
Watching an opportunity, she pushed through the hedgerow of myrtles and stood within the garden. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
When the inevitable rival mouse appeared, half the sun's disk was already masked by the hedgerow. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
But as they began to spur their horses, there came the voice of Enid from the hedgerow beside them. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
World War II during the Normandy hedgerow fighting and the invasions of the Central Pacific atolls. From Wordnik.com. [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference
Suddenly two gigantic forms emerged from the hedgerow and laid each a gigantic paw upon my shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 21, 1917] Reference
Mark's headlights picked up a break in the hedgerow a hundred yards ahead where a gate led into a field. From Wordnik.com. [Fox Evil]
Oh for the once despised hedgerow, with the soft, cool earth, in which she could stretch her delicate fibres!. From Wordnik.com. [Parables from Flowers] Reference
'I know I am not in my proper sphere; such beauty as mine was never surely intended by Nature for a hedgerow.'. From Wordnik.com. [Parables from Flowers] Reference
It surged forward and smashed through the hedgerow and plunged down the sloping snowbank after the fleeing car. From Wordnik.com. [Code Three] Reference
We are skimming the almost level plain at a low altitude halfway to Kirowograd and I am just above a dense hedgerow. From Wordnik.com. [Stuka Pilot]
A solitary mocking-bird has just tuned its last note, and sailed swiftly into the dark hedgerow, down in the dead-yard. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
Every hedgerow and wall was lined with our men; the scared inhabitants, utterly unnerved by shell fire, were fleeing from the place. From Wordnik.com. [With The Immortal Seventh Division] Reference
He zigzagged lightly down the hedgerow, catching the sunshine at every turn, and the marigolds drooped their heads at the sight of him. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
Mat, all but his eyes hidden by the scarf wrapped around his head, hunted swiftly along the tall hedgerow, pulling at the leafy branches. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of the World]
BOROWITZ: On that note, though, in the acceptance speech it would be so awesome if they would explain what a "bustle in your hedgerow" is. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 5, 2005] Reference
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