A quickset hedge is a living hedge, as distinct from a dead fence or stockade, and the young thorn-plants for forming such a hedge are known in the dialects as quick, or quicks.
Defn: To plant with living shrubs or trees for a hedge; as, to quickset a ditch.
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.
The meadow was surrounded by a quickset hedge, so thick as to be an insuperable barrier.
At the top of the field was a cut quickset hedge and a gate.
The hedge on this side was as thick and matted a quickset as ever grew.
It was indeed more of a trench than a road, with a sheer descent from the quickset of ten good feet, a width of about as much, and a grass slope on the other side at a somewhat lower level.
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.
Mr. Ashworth and our sick comrade were employed in getting some, while Mr. Tuthill and myself retired to a small distance, under cover of a quickset hedge.
Many old countrymen, upon their first arrival in America, are disgusted with the rail fences, and talk about the quickset hedges which they will have upon their land; but it all ends in talk.
Cattle, also, are so used to the bush, that they would make no difficulty of walking through a quickset hedge, unless it were many years old, and well made.
Jemmy held fast, and Jupiter, finding he could not thus dislodge his rider, set off, tearing across the paddock towards a thick quickset hedge at the bottom.
But for the sake of their own interest, they had agreed to fence themselves about with a quickset of make-belief, for the concealment of their shame and the protection of their phantom-honour.
I saw her just now by the quickset beyant, in her velvet hat and feathers, and my lord saw her too, no doubt.
A hedge, according to him, is only a line of quickset eighteen inches or two feet high; a bank of earth dividing fields is a dyke.
The path runs betweenquickset hedges, rather high, for a long distance, past houses, and ends within fifty yards of the railway station.
Cuthbert pressed himself against the quickset hedge to allow her to pass, as there was very little room.
Quickset hedges, ragged and untrimmed, divided these from the roadway, and to add to the rural look one garden possessed straw bee-hives.
Strips of garden, victoriously planted amidst stony soil, displayed plots of vegetables enclosed by quickset hedges.
The church at which Deacon Quickset worshipped was not large, nor was it ever well filled when prayer and experience were the only attractions.
As the special meetings at the church went on, Deacon Quicksetbegan to fear that he had made a mistake.
Away went Deacon Quickset to Bartram's office, and was so fortunate as to find the lawyer in.
As the congregation looked about at one and another whom the cap might fit, everybody chanced to see Deacon Quickset arise.
Well, doctor," said Deacon Quicksetto his pastor one morning, "I hope you have persuaded that wretched shoemaker to come into the ark of safety and to lay hold of the horns of the altar.
While he was standing there looking over the trim quickset hedge, an old lady with silvery hair came slowly down the road, paused a moment by the gate before she went in, and then asked Mark if she had not seen him in church.
The song of the yellow-hammer was louder in the quickset hedge; the trees burned with a sharper green; the road urged his feet.
The grey road was by now beginning to climb the foothills of the Cotswolds; a yellow-hammer, keeping always a few paces ahead, twittered from quickset boughs nine encouraging notes that drowned the echoes of ancient controversies.
Just after I quitted Benenden, I saw some bunches of straw lying upon the quickset hedge of a cottage garden.
Probably he was guilty, but Aubrey's dates are confused, and we are not even sure whether there were two ponds, and two quickset hedges, or only one of each.
A fence of wood, either brushwood, pale, or quickset (C.
Their nest, which they build in the most retired part of a wood, or in a solitary quickset hedge, is constructed with little skill, of twigs which are covered with moss.
There was another laugh as the boys wandered on along the edge of the great common, where the quickset hedge divided it from the cultivated land, high above which a lark was circling and singing with all its might.
The earliest levellers[598] get their name because they raze not social inequalities but quickset hedges and park palings.
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