| 单词 | quickset |
| 例句 | Soon they reached the road and Hazel halted among the quickset on top of the nearer bank. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Halting his carriage for a moment, Stapylton jumped out and drew nigh the little quickset hedge which flanked the road. Barrington Volume II (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:32.490Z On commons and reclaimed land they took the place of the quickset hedges seen around richer farm lands. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z I saw her just now by the quickset beyant, in her velvet hat and feathers, and my lord saw her too, no doubt. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z From head to heel, his body had all over A quickset, thickset, nat’ral, hairy cover.” Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z Then, seeing that Bertie had picked himself up, and was preparing to escape by scrambling through a quickset hedge into a field of uncut hay-- "Stop!" he cried. A Hero of Romance 2011-11-30T03:00:11.457Z On trees they never perch; though one or two may occasionally be seen settled on a quickset hedge or a railing. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z The hedge on this side was as thick and matted a quickset as ever grew. Maid of the Mist 2011-11-21T03:00:11.937Z 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. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:26.817Z It was like falling from a quickset hedge on to a bundle of thorns. The Recollections of Alexis de Tocqueville 2011-11-02T02:00:13.477Z We wish them health and wealth,—and that they may all at once be impaled on a quickset hedge! Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z The present hour I am in a quickset of embarrassments, and whichever way I turn, a thorn runs into me! The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z The little garden a-bloom in front was encircled by a white paling fence and a quickset hedge. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z There was a low green quickset hedge dividing the cottage garden from the road, and a open wooden gate. Tales of the Toys, Told by Themselves To see a quickset hedge again ... we sighed. Aliens They were going down a path much narrower and more secluded than the others, bounded on one side by the wall, and on the other by a high, quickset hedge. The Grandee A quickset hedge bounded the last field; they lost time in seeking a gap in it. Shirley The quickset hedges on either side were only waist high and did not shelter him. The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court It stood in a pretty garden, surrounded with a neat quickset hedge, nicely shorn. The Fairchild Family The devil let her go immediately, and she fell into a quickset hedge on the bank of a river; her hair fell disheveled over her neck and shoulders. The Phantom World or, The philosophy of spirits, apparitions, &c, &c. Once the Oval was part of Kennington Common; even in 1845 the solid road which circles the ground was no more than a ditch and a quickset hedge. Highways and Byways in Surrey As the English were the assailants, the precaution of posting the archers behind the quickset hedge would have proved unnecessary. The Battaile of Agincourt Our gardens were at that time separated only by quickset hedges, so that it was easy to see into each others grounds. The Looking-Glass for the Mind or Intellectual Mirror He was a short, thick man of enormous physical strength, and he sported a beard like a quickset hedge, hence his nickname. The Woman from Outside [on Swan River] I was travelling some weeks ago by a railway line alongside of which ran a quickset hedge. From a Cornish Window A New Edition The meadow was surrounded by a quickset hedge, so thick as to be an insuperable barrier. The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life The row of beech look very well indeed, and so does the young quickset hedge in the garden. Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record A little white gate stood in the quickset hedge, which Lady Isobel opened, and there, in a pretty rustic garden, was a white-washed cottage with a thatched roof and old-fashioned casement windows. 'Me and Nobbles' Mind the next quickset hedge—that's a rasper, it's a wide gripe, and the hedge is as thick as a wall—Andy'll stick in it—mind him—well leaped, by the powers! Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes Its importunity drove me to the other side of the carriage, only to find another quickset hedge behaving similarly. From a Cornish Window A New Edition If you lean on them they will let you fall, but one may rest against a Yorkshire breeze as one would on a quickset hedge. The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century Two Lectures delivered at the London Institution February 4th and 11th, 1884 There shall be, as it were, a quickset hedge of trees and bushes, close, close around your tomb. John Gabriel Borkman The brethren quickly built for themselves a few huts; a quickset hedge served as enclosing wall, and thus in three or four days was organized the first Franciscan convent. Life of St. Francis of Assisi A little further on a stout quickset hedge barred their way. The Poor Plutocrats Now I can understand that a railway company has excellent reasons for planting quickset hedges alongside its permanent way. From a Cornish Window A New Edition It is in very small enclosures of ditch and quickset. Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 A man who had a great fondness for gardening, being half a countryman and half town-bred, possessed in a certain village a fair-sized plot with a field attached, and all enclosed by a quickset hedge. The Original Fables of La Fontaine Rendered into English Prose by Fredk. Colin Tilney 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 Altar Steps The road led almost straight across the level between quickset hedges in white bloom. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series Strips of garden, victoriously planted amidst stony soil, displayed plots of vegetables enclosed by quickset hedges. Abbe Mouret's Transgression I shout "with all my might and main," like the celebrity of the old nursery tale, who jumped into a quickset hedge as an infallible remedy for blindness. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 19, 1891 Behind the house, which was built of bricks, and covered with tiles, was a little garden, encircled by a quickset hedge. The Forty-Five Guardsmen All that morning and afternoon he had lain hidden in the quickset hedge near the park gate, within sight of the cottage, and he had been rewarded. A Tale of a Lonely Parish I must have rambled several miles, when I suddenly came upon an impervious barrier of quickset. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875 And there the forest came down the valley -- for it is not enough for me to call a combe -- almost to the rear of the hall and the quickset inclosure around it. A Thane of Wessex Waddell's platoon has the hardest time, for they were passing a quickset hedge when the order came. The First Hundred Thousand 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. Cock Lane and Common-Sense The quickset hedge had baffled the scent for a moment and he was not a dozen yards beyond it in the park when his master's cry stopped him. A Tale of a Lonely Parish It was desired that it should appear unkempt and uncombed, as if it had been drawn through a quickset hedge. Routledge's Manual of Etiquette The hedges are in full leaf, and the undergrowth, sprinkled with flowers, weaves its tapestry over the barer stems of the quicksets. The Silent Isle We have seen that the town was originally the dwelling-place of a stationary clan, surrounded by palisades or by a dense quickset hedge. Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins That last jolt, that laid us against the quickset hedge, has done my business. She Stoops to Conquer There were few trees, or none, those that would have grown in the hedges being mercilessly plashed down with the quickset by the tenant-farmers, the natural enemies of tree, bush, and brake. Tess of the d'Urbervilles Where the dales widen out towards the fat plains of the Vale of York, quickset hedges intermingle with the gaunt stone, and as one gets further eastwards the green hedge becomes triumphant. Yorkshire Master Joshua, see that your scythesmen line the quickset hedge upon the right. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 On the other side of a low quickset hedge stretched a wide expanse of level meadow land, while in the farther distance rose the Wiltshire hills, and nearer the heathy highlands of the New Forest. The Golden Calf In this answer to this objection he reminds me of the renowned squire, who first scratched out his eyes in a quickset hedge, and then leaped back and scratched them in again. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge The present hour I seem in a quickset hedge of embarrassments! Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey A waste of cabbagefields—the dark lumpy earth between the rows of yellowish stumps strewn with ill-smelling refuse of decaying leaves—seen through the rents in a broken, unkempt, quickset hedge. The Far Horizon As Olivier said, every man had his garden: and each garden, each plot of land, was separated from the rest by walls, and quickset hedges, and inclosures of all sorts. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House You cross the meadow as far as the little river, bordered with willows, then the chapel is reached by a hollow lane hedged with quicksets. The Grip of Desire I drew myself up in the shadow of the luxuriant quickset to observe their notions. Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 Nevertheless, something drove him on, forced him to push his way hardily through a sort of quickset hedge of reluctance and shame. In the Wilderness There was a fairly broad ditch, and on the other side a quickset hedge, which had, however, been weakened and injured by trespassers at this corner, close to the gate. The Small House at Allington Cuthbert pressed himself against the quickset hedge to allow her to pass, as there was very little room. The Secret Passage My willows, and quicksets, and trees, will be finely improved, I hope, this year. The Journal to Stella A glint of bayonets made a quickset hedge along the line of churned-up earth which had been the Germans' front—line trench. Now It Can Be Told And here I was often stayed by quickset and creeping plants, their stems very pliant and strong and of the bigness of my little finger. Black Bartlemy's Treasure It had undergone striking improvements; a pretty rustic garden, inclosed by a quickset hedge with a bank of stones behind, extended round the little house. Mauprat The path runs between quickset hedges, rather high, for a long distance, past houses, and ends within fifty yards of the railway station. The Secret Passage Perceval tells me that the quicksets upon the flat in the garden do not grow so well as those famous ones on the ditch. The Journal to Stella The little house was surrounded by a low, quickset hedge, two or three feet high. The Three Musketeers I am afraid I shall see great neglects among my quicksets. The Journal to Stella |
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