Hedges

Examples

• Fields, trees, and hedges, seemed to rush past them with the velocity of a whirlwind, so rapid was the pace at which they tore along. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Paths, hedges, fields, houses, and trees, were enveloped in one deep shade. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• From the coast inland, stretch, between flowered lanes and hedges, rolling pasture-lands of rich green made all the more vivid by th e deep reddish tint of the ploughed fields. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Surely the hedges are shaped and measured and their symmetry preserved by the most architectural of gardeners. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Bonello turned off and followed him and then Piani worked his way out and we followed the two ambulances ahead along the narrow road between hedges. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• It has plenty of spectral company in ghosts of trees and hedges, slowly vanishing and giving place to the realities of day. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• For years I've been dreaming of the bright green fields and the hedges of England. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• The south wind blew Dora, and the wild flowers in the hedges were all Doras, to a bud. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• You are afraid of hedges, and the beck which we shall be forced to cross? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Much as I know'd the birds' names in the hedges to be chaffinch, sparrer, thrush. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I could barely see the dim black line of the hedges on either side, and any chance obstacle in the road would have thrown me down to a certainty. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The trees and wayside hedges were just throwing out their first green shoots, and the air was full of the pleasant smell of the moist earth. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Purple twigs were darkly luminous in the grey air, high hedges glowed like living shadows, hovering nearer, coming into creation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• How full the hedges are of roses! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• She glided quickly under the green hedges and across the greener leas. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• There were no walls, no fences, no hedges--nothing to secure a man's possessions but these random heaps of stones. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• On Thursday afternoons (half-holidays) we now took walks, and found still sweeter flowers opening by the wayside, under the hedges. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I skirted fields, and hedges, and lanes till after sunrise. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I smell the white and the pink May in the hedges, and all sorts of flowers that I never was among. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• High hedges were on either side of me, and for twenty minutes, by my watch, I neither saw nor heard anything. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It was a very dark night, and a thin rain began to fall as we turned from the high road into a narrow lane, deeply rutted, with hedges on either side. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.

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