I flinched, and he gritted his teeth, breathing in short, reedy gasps. From Wordnik.com. [Sick Cycle Carousel] Reference
They roost at night in reedy or marshy areas near Lake Chapala or irrigation ditches. From Wordnik.com. [One for the birds in Ajijic, Mexico] Reference
He performs badly under pressure and has a thin reedy weak voice which does not exactly inspire confidence. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-03-02] Reference
In the succeeding years, a different character was substituted for "reedy," and the Yoshiwara became known as the happy field. From Wordnik.com. [The Miko]
"Que cera cera," he said, his reedy voice barely audible. From Wordnik.com. [Who's There?] Reference
No wood-nymphs haunt the hollows; the reedy pipes are still. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook for Latin Clubs] Reference
By smoothness, or a freedom from all reedy or guttural harshness. From Wordnik.com. [The Canadian Elocutionist] Reference
There are plenty of moor-hens or water-hens in these reedy pools. From Wordnik.com. [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference
"That's what I say," piped Jim Cal's reedy voice from the interior. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
"I've heard it all before," Rat said, with a note of boredom in his reedy voice. From Wordnik.com. [Starman's Quest] Reference
Again the owls hooted along the stream and bullfrogs croaked from the reedy places. From Wordnik.com. [Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers] Reference
The reedy old voice carried the funeral hymn for a few minutes and then trailed off. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1] Reference
At the podium, Kennedy's hands shook; his voice was reedy and often mournful, or hot and petulant. From Wordnik.com. [The Worst Week] Reference
Higher peaks are arrayed behind them, and to the left lies the reedy central pond of a water meadow. From Wordnik.com. [The Scenes Speak for Themslves] Reference
A hollow below the writhing petals was filling with straw-colored water from the fibrous, reedy interior. From Wordnik.com. [Planet of the Damned] Reference
Hopkins, with his reedy voice and effete airs, is still quite delicious in the part that won him an Oscar. From Wordnik.com. [Knock, Knock. Who's There?] Reference
The vivid, living thoughts that had enkindled me fell back cold and lifeless into the tedious, reedy water. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
No matter how good a swimmer, a reedy swamp is more than one can contend with, therefore I gave up the idea. From Wordnik.com. ['Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany] Reference
At four and three-quarter miles crossed fine large oak creek from south-south-west, sandy bed and reedy banks. From Wordnik.com. [McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia] Reference
The tone used in ascending the scale of C, singing loudly, will be reedy, thick and harsh -- the thick register. From Wordnik.com. [The Child-Voice in Singing treated from a physiological and a practical standpoint and especially adapted to schools and boy choirs] Reference
For in the mead of the reedy river there lay, cooling his flanks and huge belly in the mud, a white-tusked boar. From Wordnik.com. [The Argonautica] Reference
Mike Bloomberg boomed in his reedy Boston accent after his improbable election last week as the city's 108th mayor. From Wordnik.com. [Betting On A Billionaire] Reference
Vanna was three and twenty, no more round but no less blooming in face and figure; still a reedy, golden-haired girl. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
And so her music flowed through a reedy, open-mouthed hum that sounded as if she might at any moment break into song. From Wordnik.com. [Can a Hummingbird Sing?] Reference
His mocking-bird is very fair; his thrush, passable; but his canary less successful, being rather too reedy and harsh. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867] Reference
In South Africa buffaloes frequent reedy swamps, where they associate in herds of from fifty to a hundred or more individuals. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
It brought the wild duck back to the reedy marshes of the south; it brought the wild song back to the fervid brain of the poet. From Wordnik.com. [Graded Poetry: Seventh Year] Reference
His charisma came not from any personal grandeur — indeed, his hands shook and his voice was sometimes thin and reedy when he spoke. From Wordnik.com. [What If RFK Had Become President?] Reference
The father, whose worn denim overalls hung on a reedy frame, had a rawboned face and black hair that shone like onyx but wanted washing. From Wordnik.com. [The Hole Between Them] Reference
The performer, an old man with bronzed face, was squatting on his haunches playing a weird tune on a reedy instrument resembling a flute. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour] Reference
Arabian hills pushed down near to the Nile and the intervening space was a flat sandy stretch, ending in a reedy marsh at the water's edge. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Kaplan doesn't find a great deal at "this colossal, reedy, asphalty, garbagy plot by the bay" -- which happens to be the size of Manhattan. From Wordnik.com. [Come Fly With Me] Reference
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