The result was that developing the suggestion McLaren devised a new kind of hedge likely to be used the world over.
McLaren found his experiment so successful that he decided to build a hedge twenty feet high, extending more than a thousand feet.
Laurels and willows were originally planned to coverhedge and to reach to top of columns.
Guerin has applied a rich coloring, his favorite pink, and McLaren has added a poetic touch by letting garlands of the African dew plant, that he made his hedge of, flow over from the top.
He set to work on the problem and he devised a scheme for making an imitation hedge by planting ivy in deep boxes and piling the boxes on one another.
Before the Scott Street entrance we paused to admire the high hedge of John McLaren.
Maybeck had intended the hedge to be used as a background for willow trees that were to run up as high as the frieze, in this way gaining depth.
He also used the hedge extensively in the landscape design for the Palace of Fine Arts.
Still in the shadow of the hedge they moved cautiously toward the upper end of the private road until presently they saw a building looming in their path.
Princess Emma dropped back close to the hedge and Barney approached the building, which proved to be a private garage.
Barney took the princess' hand and drew her up a hedge bordered driveway that led into private grounds.
In the shadows of the hedge they waited for the party behind them to pass.
And then too, mark how we scowl upon his scanty holidays, how we hedge in his mirth with laws, and turn his hilarity into crime!
The woman's eyes also went to the window; there was a long, narrow stretch of lawn between the house and the one behind it; and this was divided in the center by a hedge fence.
Skirting the lawn was a hedge fence; and a cemented path led to the front door.
Holding to the hedge they slowly skirted the lawn.
Okiu and Humadi saw leaping over thehedge fence in the moonlight," declared the Standard.
Though they turned into the hedgegate and drove to the west entrance, which was at one side of the house, there was no cessation of the game, not even a glance from Berenice, so busy was she.
She was like a butterfly, he thought, yellow and white or blue and gold, fluttering over a hedge of wild rose.
So she retired very unwillingly into the hedge to costume herself while the two boys invested their fists with the soft chamois gloves of combat.
Already crocuses, mauve, white, and yellow, glimmered along a dripping privet hedge which crowned the brick and granite wall bounding the domain of Seagrave.
Some one inside the hedge was trying to overhaul him.
Somewhere in the darkness behind him someone had stumbled into an acacia hedge and had uttered a stifled exclamation of pain.
The man crashed back into thehedge with an explosive gasp.
Before the windows flashed a bright parterre, begirt with a thick hedge of salvias, above which the exquisite humming-bird for ever hovered.
The lakes were fringed with rushes; the forests came down to their edges; his own garden ended in a little path through a lilac hedge that took you down between the rye to the rushes and the water and the first great pines.
Before, however, they had reached the gap in the lilac hedge that formed the simple entrance on that side to the Dremmel garden there she was beginning again.
But they stabbed Lene Hebers as she lay in childbed, speared the child, and flung it over Claus Peer's hedge among the nettles, where it was yet lying when they came away.
Suddenly the Sheriff jumped over the hedge and turned into a wolf, who seized me in his jaws, and ran with me towards the Streckelberg, where he had his lair.
Hast not Thou made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side?
The larger ends are to be held by the persons who take the management of the net, and who, by stretching out the arms, keep the net extended to the utmost, opposite the hedge in which the Bats or birds are supposed to be.
The animal staggered backwards, and we all poured in our fire; he still kicked and writhed, when the gentlemen with the hogspears advanced and fixed him, while some natives finished him by beating him on the head with hedge stakes.
I got a hedge stake and awaited my fate for very shame.
Then he dropped down the bank on which the farm stood, and avoiding the open track through the fields, he skirted a hedge which led down to the road, and was lost in the shadows of advancing night.
Suddenly a shape rushed out of the hedge into the light of the lamps, and a man laid a violent hand upon the horse's reins.
I'm not the man I wor," he confided to Peter Betts, as they were eating their dinner under a hedge in the damp October sunshine.
To-morrow you will wonder what you ever saw in a hedge rose, but that will not put the rose back in bloom on the hedge again.
Templeton rushed down in great agitation, sprang into the hedge regardless of scratches, unloosed the straps, and hauled Eves out.
Templeton, who was steering, tried to turn the machine into the hedge before it reached the manual.
It was enclosed by a thick hedge except at the gate, and that was kept locked, and blocked with brushwood.
I know the very place--just where the lane runs under the wall of the barn on one side and a prickly hedge on the other.
Then it dashed after Noakes, who, seeing no other outlet, flung himself into the ditch below the hedge and scrambled through the tangled lower branches only just in time to escape the animal's horns.
The carter hurried to the leader's head and pulled in to his side of the road, giving only a gaping stare as the yacht grazed the off wheels of his wagon and the hedge on the other side.
They had sought safety by backing into the hedge opposite to that at which the machine appeared to be charging as it approached them.
It was just wide enough to allow the passage of a cart, and even on a bright night was dark, owing to the tall hedge on one side and the high blank wall on the other.
We did break his hedge and disturb his tenant's cattle, as he says.
Two minutes later they were stealing along under cover of the hedge that skirted the field to be irrigated.
They had just reached the edge of the tar when there were two loud reports from the direction of the hedge a few yards behind them.
The machine swerved to the left, and crashed into a bramble-bush in the hedge at the foot of the hill.
We strode through the mud, and going along a hedge we reached the high road in a state of exhaustion, although it was not more than a hundred paces as the crow flies from where we stood to the house.
I stood by the hedge to let her pass, but as soon as she came up to me she asked, smilingly, if I had been interested in the statues.
Whither when they were come, there were divers persons about the door, and he saw divers others riding on Horses of several colours towards the said House, who tied their Horses to a hedge near to the said House.
He sent an evil spirit, who tormented a man for twenty weeks; and he was seen to chase a cat, and in the chase to be carried so high over a hedge that he could not touch her head.
They led me straight to a little covered cart drawn under the hedge where Boswell was conversing with ’Plisti Smith.
Under a hedgepink with wild-roses, we sat smoking and waiting for the fair to begin on Stow Green, a South Lincolnshire common.
In narrow lanes invisible threads of spiders’ silk stretched from hedge to hedge, and wayside tangles again were silvered over with a fine dust suggestive of July.
What a relief to stretch your limbs before a glowing fire inside an old-fashioned inn, when boisterous winds are shaking the window-panes and driving the loose straw from the cobbled yard into the hedge bottoms.
Gilderoy, ever a good walker, was soon pegging on ahead; then at a stile in a hedge he would wait until Oli and I came up.
From a hillock by the hedge I have watched her seize a skittish pony by the mane and, leaping astride its back, gallop madly along a lane, to return a few moments later, breathless and dishevelled.
Turf-covered from hedge to hedge for many a mile, the High Dyke, as the old road is now called, may well be described as a forgotten highway.
The amber light of sunset was falling upon green hedge and rippling river.
After the fair was over I sat under a hedge and took tea with Jonathan and Fazenti.
Under thehedge stood the finest tent you ever saw.
The hedge was high and thick, tall trees formed a complete barrier between the grounds and the high road, no strangers or passersby could be seen.
I do not know whether others are open to the same deception, but to my own eye, a wall appears more, and a hedge less, than its real height at a certain distance off.
He sees exactly what he has to do, and need not rise an inch higher, nor fling himself an inch farther than is absolutely necessary, whereas a hedge induces him to make such exertions as may cover the uncertainty it conceals.
A deer is very apt to drop lightly over a wall or upright hedge just high enough to conceal it, and then turn short at a right angle under this convenient screen.
And thehedge gave her a dozen deadly thorns, each thorn an inch long.
He ran to the meadow, and pushed through the blooming hedge of hawthorne.
As through the hedgethey burst; An archer all in green espied The crouching quarry first.
A big, silly country fellow was going along with his bow and arrows, when he saw a great brown beast leap over a hedge and dash into the meadow beyond.
I remember how condemned I felt as I ran by the hedge and knew in my heart that I was glad you were hurting him because he had been so cruel to me.
In much bewilderment and distress Ruth watched him stride away toward the hedge and disappear.
And just then you came along behind me and jumped through the hedge and caught Chuck and gave him an awful whipping.
Drusus's travelling cortège would have seemed small enough compared with the hedge of outriders, footmen, and body-servants that surrounded the great man.
And all "that majesty that doth hedge about a king," or about a victorious general, exerted its full influence.
