They were all, and Andrew Hedger among them, the most entranced and profoundly reverent, observing the dissection of a pig.
Andrew Hedgerrepeated that it was The Crossways house, ne'er a doubt.
Nitch, a big fagot of wood; a load; a fagot of wood which custom allows a hedger to carry home at night.
Slowly the hedger and ditcher goes back to his work, where in the shade under the bushes even now the dew lingers.
But I don't like to figure in your parable as the blind genius of brute force--a horny-handed hedger and ditcher with a smock frock and a bill-hook.
Elizabeth," said her husband, reproachfully, "that is worse than being called a hedger and ditcher.
You know I never likened you to a hedger and ditcher," she said, fondly.
Her son Hedger then was a postboy to a yard I believe at Epsom, and came to be master there.
Away goes the Doctor more freely than to Church, and the Hedger as if he were going to the Wedding.
Hedger began to relate how he had seen some of this Frenchman's work in an exhibition, and deciding at once that this was the man for him, he had taken a boat for Marseilles the next week, going over steerage.
When Hedgercame slinking out of his closet, he sat down on the edge of the couch, sat for hours without moving.
Hedger lived at the master's house and every day they went out together to paint, sometimes on the blazing rocks down by the sea.
We must leave Hedger thus, sitting in his tank with his dog, looking up at the stars.
Hedger mechanically snapped the midsummer leash on Caesar's collar and they ran downstairs and hurried through Sullivan Street off toward the river.
It was a highly gratifying idea; the incommunicability of one stratum of animal life with another,--though Hedger pretended it was only an experiment in unusual lighting.
Hedger laughed, sprang up and caught her arms roughly.
When Hedger first moved in, these rooms were occupied by a young man who tried to write plays,--and who kept on trying until a week ago, when the nurse had put him out for unpaid rent.
One Saturday afternoon Hedger was sitting in the window of Eden's music room.
Hedger was not trying to please her, she thought, but to antagonize and frighten her by his brutal story.
One of the "forms" lay in a clump of fern and brambles near the corner of a fallow, the other on a slight elevation where a hedger had thrown some "trash" beside a ditch in a field of unripe wheat.
In winter, the low-lying lands are seldom visited by the peasantry, except when the dairymaid drives the cattle to and fro, or the hedger trims the undergrowth along the ditches.
The hedger and ditcher must make his hedge and clean his ditch even though he be tormented by rheumatism.
No, Silverbridge;--I said no such thing; but that if he were a hedger and ditcher the bread and cheese and onions would be as good.
It was because for the time you had been a hedger and ditcher.
Ye will find it just as easy a life being the wife o' a hedger as keeping a school--rather mair sae I apprehend, and mair profitable too.
Hedger is the very best criminal agent I ever met with.
No sooner had the old hedger stabled his steed and sat down to his supper than he opened his mind to his dear "aud woman," who was in truth as well as name a helpmeet for him, his loving and trusted wife for forty years.
The old hedger received an ovation such as might well have turned the heads of less humble men.
As usual, the old hedgermade a confidant of his dumb companion.
Nor were the cogitations of the grand oldhedger less interesting.
Bidding Farmer Houston good-night, Adam and his companion wended their way homeward, and on arriving at his cottage the old hedger pressed Nathan Blyth to go in with him.
The old hedger had every now and again to wrestle with his feelings, and to gulp down a choking in the throat as Pete's warm, loving sentences unfolded themselves to his delighted gaze.
This admirable hint was at once acted on, and Mr. Clayton asked the old hedger to engage in prayer.
Seizing the bridle, he turned his startled steed and galloped back to where the old hedger was at work.
The Colonel chuckled, and Tora pretended that she had remembered about Mrs. Hedgerall the time.
From the Mayor upward--or, I suppose, Hedger would think I ought to say downward.
Old Hedger told me they had ordered nothing for three days.
But you said Mrs. Hedger canvassed for the Squire.
This was too much for the Colonel; he said nothing himself, but his joy was great when Sir Harry pointed out that Mrs. Hedger would have official precedence over the new Lady Fulmer.
The member of the lower branch of their common art was a richer man than he who belonged to the higher, and when Mr. Hedger was playfully charged with giving the young Doctor his medicines cheap, he never denied the accusation.
And, by hook or by crook, Hedger Luxellian was made a lord, and everything went on well till some time after, when he got into a most terrible row with King Charles the Fourth.
I don't mind if I do," said Hedger Luxellian; and they changed there and then.
It is as if a skilled artisan should complain that he could not compete with the hedger and ditcher.
Let him only be content with the hedger and ditcher’s rate of pay, and there will be nothing to prevent him from entering the lists even against this rival.
The hedger hastens from the storm begun, To seek a shelter that may keep him dry; And foresters low bent, the wind to shun, Scarce hear amid the strife the poacher's muttering gun.
Now homeward-bound, the hedger bundles round His evening faggot, and with every stride His leathern doublet leaves a rustling sound.
Around the rotten tree the firetail mourns As the old hedger to his toil returns, Chopping the grain to stop the gap close by The hole where her blue eggs in safety lie.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hedger" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
