1 With bated breath and crouching figures they stumbled across it, and gained the shelter of the hedge, which they skirted until they came to the gap which opened into the cornfields.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE 2 This morning I saw you looking over the hedge that divides Animal Farm from Foxwood.
3 One of Mr. Pilkington's men was standing on the other side of the hedge.
4 Then he put on an extra spurt and, with a few inches to spare, slipped through a hole in the hedge and was seen no more.
5 They could only be traced for a few yards, but appeared to lead to a hole in the hedge.
6 And when the nine dogs of Napoleon's own bodyguard, whom he had instructed to make a detour under cover of the hedge, suddenly appeared on the men's flank, baying ferociously, panic overtook them.
7 The animals chased them right down to the bottom of the field, and got in some last kicks at them as they forced their way through the thorn hedge.
8 The first had been blown down, or the village idiot, who always tore down what had been nailed up, had done it, and was chuckling over the placard under the shade of some hedge.
9 And she was broad; she fairly filled the path, swaying slightly as she walked, and plucking a leaf here and there from the hedge.
10 Reason had thrown her mantle on a holly hedge.
11 His close-shaven crown, surrounded by a circle of stiff curled black hair, had something the appearance of a parish pinfold begirt by its high hedge.
12 Connie emerged in the farm's little front garden, shut in by a privet hedge.
13 She plunged with utter mournfulness in his track through the fern, and came to a huge holly hedge.
14 So saying, he sprang over the hedge, and darted off with a speed which rendered it matter of exceeding difficulty for the others to keep near him.
15 'As I am that the men were at the window,' replied Oliver, pointing down, as he spoke, to the hedge which divided the cottage-garden from the meadow.