Tall fir trees grew at the bottom by the boundary fence, casting long early-morning shadows across the lawn and the laurel hedges which enclosed it.

Follow the path which heads away from the water beside a laurel hedge, and onto a gravelled road.

Standing behind the laurel hedge, smiling at me, was Jane.

But owing to my always leaving something behind, I turned back and merely ran into the laurel hedge.

Then he continued about his business, snuffling at the base of the laurel hedge that grew in front of the fence.

He gazed dully out of the little window at a dark, neatly-clipped laurel hedge and the gravel path where the black cars were parked.

I slipped through the archway of the laurel hedge and climbed on to the sill of the outhouse window.

I could now see beyond the laurel hedge and the grass space behind it to the barrack blocks.

The garden sloping to the road, the house standing in it, the green pales, and the laurel hedge, everything declared they were arriving.

In her peripheral vision she caught a glimpse of a shadow and the lower branches of the laurel hedge shuddered.