OLD WOMAN IN MAY “Old woman by the hedgerow In gown of withered black, With beads and pins and buttons And ribbons in your pack-- How many miles do you go?
But wonder has come down From alien skies upon the midst of us; The sparkling hedgerow and the clamorous town Have grown miraculous.
There is a thick hedgerow at each end of this bridge, and moreover another hedgerow runs along the side of the stream, going up to the coppice on one side and down to the Dyke on the other, so that the entrances are shielded from observation.
Vassar set his jaw and crept along the last hedgerow to the gate of the Holland home.
He reached his post without interference, thrust Virginia into the edge of the dense hedgerow and waited until the guards had returned to their places.
I should like to see a woman who could have written that description of an August evening before a thunderstorm; every wild-flower in the hedgerow exactly the flowers of August, every sign in the air exactly those of the month.
All was still,--the hedgerow shut out the sight of the inn.
The solid rain does away with all the hills, and shows only the solitary thorns at the edge of an oak wood, or a row of beeches above a hazel hedgerow and, beneath that, stars of stitchwort in the drenched grass.
They passed thehedgerow where the child had been deposited.
A green flame would pass from meadow to hedgerow, from hedgerow to the tangled thickets of bramble and dog-rose, from the underwoods to the inmost forest glades.
After the dim purple bloom of a suspended spring, a green rhythm ran from larch to thorn, from lime to sycamore; spread from meadow to meadow, from copse to copse, from hedgerow to hedgerow.
In front of them, one of the highroads crawled up the steep hill and then dipped suddenly over its crest, sharp-cut with hedgerow and shaggy grass against the sky.
So they crossed a stile and came behind a hedgerow where the mellow sunlight was bright and warm, and where the grass was soft, and there sat them down.
Well do I know that fair place for miles about, and well do I know each hedgerow and gentle pebbly stream, and even all the bright little fishes therein, for there I was born and bred.
They who come in meekness year by year to roadside hedgerowand homely meadow had come in power.
A solitary shrub of mugwort grows at some distance, but in the same district, and in one hedgerow the wild guelder rose flourishes.
A thrush travelling along the hedgerow just outside goes by the gateway within a yard.
When I first ascended Harrow Hill, I drove there from London with my mother; and, from Harlesden onwards, our road lay between grass meadows, and was shaded by hedgerow timber.
Never have I heard anything more lugubrious than these hedgerow and woodland notes issuing from the cages in that damp, black corridor.
She weaves pattern over pattern, regardless of confusion, so that the mangiest hedgerow is richer, more subtle than all the carpets and papers ever designed by Mr. Morris.
Yes, she must be out on the fields; those were the tops of hedgerow trees.
Ten minutes' walk took a man from town to country, from streets and alleys to meadow and cornfield, hedgerow and thicket.
Here the red deer steal out after sundown over the ruinous wall and through the untended hedgerow to the broad meadow that for a space divides the river from the wood.
Its habits are much the same, except that it haunts the hedgerow and wooded country rather than the open fields.
In the copse and thick hedgerow where the Dormouse is mostly to be found, he must be sought after the brightness of day has departed; for he is a nocturnal beast and spends the hours of sunshine in heavy slumber.
In full view of a hedgerow where small birds are numerous, he will throw his body into snake-like contortions to attract their attention.
He generally had to be caught, if you wanted him badly, as he slipped quietly along a hedgerow of an early morning or a late evening, or else hunted up in his own house in the middle of the Wood, which was a serious undertaking.
Fairy cobwebs, gemmed with glistening dewdrops, sparkle in every hedgerow as we mount slowly up the steep, ruddy flank of the Ridgeway.
And though as yet no buddy baby dots Sparkle the darkness of the hedgerow twigs, The smoke-dried bark appears to spread and swell In the soft nurture of the warm light-bath.
She had found his gypsy tent and hedgerow practice in the highest degree romantic.
And though no buds with little dots of light Sparkled the darkness of the hedgerow twigs; Softening, expanding in the warm light-bath, Seemed the dry smoky bark.
By an unfinished street, Forth came they on a wide and level space; Green fields lay side by side, and hedgerow trees Stood here and there as waiting for some good.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hedgerow" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: fence; shrubbery; wall
