For the ordering of the ground, within the great
hedge, I leave it to variety of device; advising nevertheless, that whatsoever form you cast it into, first, it be not too busy, or full of work.
Why should that old guinea-fowl be lying out in the
hedge just at this particular moment of all the year?
The walking party had crossed the lane, and were surmounting an opposite stile, and the Admiral was putting his horse in motion again, when Captain Wentworth cleared the
hedge in a moment to say something to his sister.
The spectators suppose the sudden deflection to be caused by a shot, perhaps a wound; but take this field-glass and you will observe that he is riding toward a break in the wall and
hedge. He means, if not killed, to ride through and overlook the country beyond.
I turned back and drew Penfentenyou into the side of the flanking
hedge. I remembered to have read in a society paper that Lord Lundie's lesser name was "Bubbles."
D'Artagnan leaned against the
hedge, after having cast a glance behind it.
The circle or double
hedge that I had made was not only firm and entire, but the stakes which I had cut out of some trees that grew thereabouts were all shot out and grown with long branches, as much as a willow-tree usually shoots the first year after lopping its head.
They had been driving through the lane with the towering
hedge on one side and the open meadow on the other.
Losberne, who had been out walking, and just then returned, tumbled over the
hedge after them, and picking himself up with more agility than he could have been supposed to possess, struck into the same course at no contemptible speed, shouting all the while, most prodigiously, to know what was the matter.
Then, after an interminable time, as it seemed to us, crouching and peering through the
hedge, came a sound like the distant concussion of a gun.
They were walking, the executioner before them, whilst fifty archers formed a
hedge on their right and their left.
The little party of strangers now followed the Prince across a few more of the glass bridges and along several paths until they came to a garden enclosed by a high
hedge. Jim had refused to leave the field of grass, where he was engaged in busily eating; so the Wizard got out of the buggy and joined Zeb and Dorothy, and the kitten followed demurely at their heels.