A quickset hawthorn hedge. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
A quickset of a vine planted in a vineyard. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Here they came to a little double rail and a little quickset hedge. From Wordnik.com. [Can You Forgive Her?] Reference
A quickset tongue, hedge-English: tough and insular, flowering and thorny. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: ENGLISH SPEECH-CRAFT.] Reference
Past the stream, the dark tangle of a quickset hedge marked the road; Caris shivered. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Tower]
The row of beech look very well indeed, and so does the young quickset hedge in the garden. From Wordnik.com. [Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record] Reference
I must have rambled several miles, when I suddenly came upon an impervious barrier of quickset. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875] Reference
There shall be, as it were, a quickset hedge of trees and bushes, close, close around your tomb. From Wordnik.com. [John Gabriel Borkman] Reference
(You may note that Billy Russell himself had a beard like a quickset hedge, and I reckon he took Raglan's order as a personal insult.). From Wordnik.com. [The Sky Writer] Reference
One early spring day, a little shoot of Honeysuckle was putting forth its tendrils low down on the ground at the foot of a quickset hedge. From Wordnik.com. [Parables from Flowers] Reference
The prince was going down a gravel walk with a quickset hedge on each side, and his eyes on the ground, and he was thinking of one thing and another. From Wordnik.com. [The Lilac Fairy Book] Reference
The rose garden was enclosed behind quickset hedges and hidden from her, but the path she had taken led into it, and she must continue if she was to reach the house. From Wordnik.com. [Scales of Justice]
Two stiff flights of rails with a quickset between. From Wordnik.com. [Poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon] Reference
On this spot the road was lined with quickset hedges. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2] Reference
Some bank or quickset finds: to which his haunch opposed. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference
The present hour I seem in a quickset hedge of embarrassments!. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey] Reference
I drew myself up in the shadow of the luxuriant quickset to observe their notions. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches — Volume 04] Reference
The road led almost straight across the level between quickset hedges in white bloom. From Wordnik.com. [New Italian sketches] Reference
The meadow was surrounded by a quickset hedge, so thick as to be an insuperable barrier. From Wordnik.com. [The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life] Reference
I was travelling some weeks ago by a railway line alongside of which ran a quickset hedge. From Wordnik.com. [From a Cornish Window A New Edition] Reference
Again and again he would charge, for instance, into a quickset hedge when his nose told him. From Wordnik.com. ['Murphy' A Message to Dog Lovers] Reference
It had undergone striking improvements; a pretty rustic garden, inclosed by a quickset hedge with. From Wordnik.com. [Mauprat] Reference
Cuthbert pressed himself against the quickset hedge to allow her to pass, as there was very little room. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Passage] Reference
Its importunity drove me to the other side of the carriage, only to find another quickset hedge behaving similarly. From Wordnik.com. [From a Cornish Window A New Edition] Reference
Strips of garden, victoriously planted amidst stony soil, displayed plots of vegetables enclosed by quickset hedges. From Wordnik.com. [La faute de l'Abbe Mouret] Reference
Our gardens were at that time separated only by quickset hedges, so that it was easy to see into each others grounds. From Wordnik.com. [Ami des enfants. English] Reference
Behind the house, which was built of bricks, and covered with tiles, was a little garden, encircled by a quickset hedge. From Wordnik.com. [The Forty-Five Guardsmen] Reference
He was a short, thick man of enormous physical strength, and he sported a beard like a quickset hedge, hence his nickname. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman from Outside [on Swan River]] Reference
Now I can understand that a railway company has excellent reasons for planting quickset hedges alongside its permanent way. From Wordnik.com. [From a Cornish Window A New Edition] Reference
Nevertheless, something drove him on, forced him to push his way hardily through a sort of quickset hedge of reluctance and shame. From Wordnik.com. [In the Wilderness] Reference
As the English were the assailants, the precaution of posting the archers behind the quickset hedge would have proved unnecessary. From Wordnik.com. [The Battaile of Agincourt] Reference
The path runs between quickset hedges, rather high, for a long distance, past houses, and ends within fifty yards of the railway station. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Passage] Reference
At the end of this stiff ground a stiffish leap awaited them; an old quickset had been cut down, and all the elm-trees that grew in it, and. From Wordnik.com. [A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day] Reference
The quickset hedge had baffled the scent for a moment and he was not a dozen yards beyond it in the park when his master's cry stopped him. From Wordnik.com. [A Tale of a Lonely Parish] Reference
Then, without exchanging a word, Marie and Pierre lived their childhood's days afresh, playing together once more in the neighbouring gardens parted by the quickset hedge. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 3] Reference
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