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  • noun Plural form of quickset.

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Examples

  • Here, these quicksets fresh which lands seuer out fro thy neighbors

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • I am afraid I shall see great neglects among my quicksets.

    The Journal to Stella 2003

  • 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 2003

  • I shall give you a view of their situation -- Vinegar-hill is very steep, rising in the form of a cone: at the but of it are two other hills, with quicksets and other ditches across them -- these were lined with their musketry men: -- a river ran at the bottom of both, and adjacent was a small wood.

    An Impartial Narrative of the Most Important Engagements Which Took Place Between His Majesty's Forces and the Rebels, During the Irish Rebellion, 1798. John Jones

  • Here, these quicksets fresh which lands seuer out fro thy neighbors

    The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus

  • 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 Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 1901

  • 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 Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

  • On this morning of Palm Sunday the shaven crowns of the limes were budded gold and pink, the sky a fair sea-blue over Gisors, with a scurrying fleece of clouds like foam; the poplars about the meadows were in their first flush, all the quicksets veiled in green.

    The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay Maurice Hewlett 1892

  • For I pass over the peculiar nature of all things which are produced from the earth; which generates such great trunks and branches from so small a grain of the fig or from the grape-stone, or from the minutest seeds of other fruits and roots; shoots, plants, twigs, quicksets, layers, do not these produce the effect of delighting any one even to admiration?

    The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume II (of X) - Rome Various 1887

  • Mallet-shoots, slips, cuttings, quicksets, layers -- are they not enough to fill anyone with delight and astonishment?

    Treatises on Friendship and Old Age Marcus Tullius Cicero 1874

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