12 Metaphors for hedge

Here be no walls, no hedges, No tolls, no taxes,rats nor aldermen!

The hedge was the worst thing; but my father was in danger, and my blood was up."

But the hedges and trees are the glory of "the happy autumn fields."

The hedge, however wide-bottomed, is his fence; and fencing he must have.

All over the hill right up to the houses the cactus flourished, and the hedges were a replica of the terrible obstacles at Gaza.

Men hedging gardens have for centuries set plants under that "letter of law" which "killeth," until the very word hedge has become a pain and an offence; and all the while there have been standing in every wild country graceful walls of unhindered brier and berry, to which the apostles of beauty have been silently pointing.

"So, in the very depth of pleasant May, When every hedge was milky white, the lark A speck against a cape of sunny cloud, Yet heard o'er all the fields, and when his heart Made all the world as happy as itself, Prince Edwin, with a score of lusty knights, Rode forth a bridegroom to bring home his bride.

The thin hedge dividing the two playgrounds was by this time bare of leaves, and afforded no hiding-place; the only chance of concealment was to take shelter inside the den itselfa place which has already been described.

Blackberries are found in extraordinary numbers on this limestone soil, and the hedges are full of elder-berries, as well as the little black fruit of the privet.

Mr. Hedge, we dare say, is a descendant from the pilgrims, whom the Indians protected at Plymouth Rock!

A few scraggly hedges and an apple tree, a charred bit of fence, a chimney foundation are the only markers of the home he built after years of a hard struggle to have a home.

The farmer sometimes talks of "brushing up," simply as if bare ground looked better than clothed ground, than that which wears its natural vesture,as if the wild hedges, which, perhaps, are more to his children than his whole farm beside, were dirt.

12 Metaphors for  hedge