It was an April morning, and they set in the hedged garden of Puysange.
And, I may add, that the daughters of the very rich are usually hedged about by a social environment which prevents their making the acquaintance of the best young men.
We are hedged about by certain restrictions that we can neither remove nor ignore.
Gliding like a serpent up to the terrace wall, hedged with lilacs, he saw Nicole at the grating, emptying a purse on a stone out of Beausire's reach by being on her side of the railing.
Their way seemed entirely hedged up, for the only vessel in Madras harbor ready for sea, was destined to Burmah, a country pronounced by all their friends in India, utterly inaccessible.
As they drew near, the crowd thickened and hedged them in.
It was not a good position, being hedged in on the right and in front by woods which could conceal the movements of a foe without impeding them.
Just back of my dear old home it rolled, With many a crumpled and rocky fold, Hedged 'round with cherry and locust trees Their strong arms toyed with the breeze-- Like knights arrayed for march or fight They stood with waving plumes of white.
I planted a grove beyond it, And hedged up the terraced yard, And I dug a groove so a brooklet Could play on the level sward.
Hereupon the Earth (which was made to be a Common Treasury of Relief for all, both beasts and men) was hedged into enclosures by the Teachers and Rulers, and the others were made Servants and Slaves.
And on far up the mountain slope until beneath the Altar they came to a little circle, hedged round with thick young firs, where the deep snow was tracked with footprints of birds and foxes.
Life was larger than a private garden hedged with personal ambitions.
There was a trick of the eyes, something almost vocal, which was an inheritance from mothers whose speech is sternly hedged about by conventions but who find subtler ways of expression.
Then flashed to his mind the picture of Benicia O'Donoju, the girl who loved the desert, who felt she was prisoner only when hedged about by the walls of cities in the East.
It served various purposes; it hedged the rudest representations of Christ round with a divinity, which kept them distinct from all others.
And, when he saw Annot later, there was no trace of a consequent informality in her manner; she was distant, hedged about by an evident concern for her father.
He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
Squabbling and cantankerous, rather absurd and petty, the Legations are spinning their little threads, each one hedged in by high walls in its own compound and by the debatable question of the situation politique.
While going up a ravine with steep bluffs on each side, an avalanche of some thirty Indians rushed down upon me and hedged me in so that I could not get out.
Our brethren made large entrenchments and ditches and piled up large masses of rocks above the narrow passes for the purpose of rolling them down upon the enemy; but the Lord has fought our battles and hedged up the way.
The right was a legal one, but hedgedabout with restrictions.
One feature of the flower fields is that they arehedged about with escalonia, with its pretty shining leaves and pink flower.
We find ourselves hedged in at every effort we make as mothers for the amelioration of society, as philanthropists, as Christians.
But the crude physical labor which can compete only on the plane of automatic machines, must find its field of employment more and more hedged in.
As in slavery times, the cotton hands are more fixed in their locality than in other pursuits; they are less ambitious to move about, and find their way more close hedged in if they try to go elsewhere.
He is hedgedin and hampered by obstacles; his vision is circumscribed and confined to what may be presented in his immediate vicinity.
The house was on the high land in front, hedged in by old trees, and thence you descended by stately tiers until you came to the level which held the dancers.
After Prince George Street with its gilt and marbles and stately hedged gardens, the low-beamed, vine-covered house in the Duke of Gloucester Street was a home and a rest.
And yet may it not be that these questions are idle, and we who are putting them to you mere childish dreamers, hedged round with error and doubt?
I find it generally a very ugly and a very sordid place, where I am hedged in with relatives, generally wanting me to do the thing I loathe.
In Margaret Ormsby McGregor was to know what was to him a new kind of womanhood, something sure, reliant, hedged about and prepared as a good soldier is prepared, to have the best of it in the struggle for existence.
It was not, however, indiscriminate in its attacks; for wherever a squalid population hedged in the lofty terrace or the aristocratic square, it spread from the meagre workman to his healthy fellow-citizen.
There was also probably more impediment in insuring with a company than with a jobber, as the underwriters would not be hedged with the forms and ceremonies which always surround a board of directors.
The prospect, growing continually more grand as it receded, was finally hedged about by the majestic Pyrenees, which lifted their glimmering snows against the pale winter sky.
It is hedged in by fig trees growing to a size which would astonish those who have only seen the dwarf trees of the species which we possess.
