The grass beside the well, buoyantly undisturbed, leads to an analogy with sedge which is growing near the sea on much shakier ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poem of the week: What mystery pervades a well! by Emily Dickinson] Reference

It denotes some kind of sedge or reed which grows in marshy places.    From Wordnik.com.  [Easton's Bible Dictionary] Reference

The next night I was traveling by a sort of sedge when.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rim of the Desert] Reference

The long sedge-grass gave rustling sighs of motion, as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862] Reference

You pecked a piece of sedge thinking it was a frog's leg!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folklore of the Santal Parganas] Reference

And down by the brook there I know of a sedge-bird's nest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Brown's Schooldays]

Out of the sedge by the creek a flight of clamorous killdees.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862] Reference

A tongue of land, covered with pale sedge, was on the left side.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860] Reference

Reed Bunting            sedge-scuttler; swayer; a cool perch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poem of the week: A Trace of Wings by Edwin Morgan] Reference

It was sandy, sedge-grown, with here and there a palm, and tremendously trampled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference

"I used to stuff my foot-coverings with sedge grass, when I lived with the Clan.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]

The forgotten patch can be seen from afar by the tufts of sedge sprouting from it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference

At length prophetess and prince are landed unscathed on the ugly ooze and livid sedge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Aeneid of Virgil] Reference

The beach, on close inspection, proved soft and dirty, the grass sedge, the meadow a bog.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference

A little way off from where he had slept, a small brook wound its way through the sedge grass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Boys on the Firing Line or, Holding Back the German Drive] Reference

Here are two on this sedge; you see a slit on the back through which the dragon-fly has come out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference

Its nest, which is found along borders of rivers, is made of sedge and grasses suspended near tall reeds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds Illustrated by Color Photograph [April, 1897] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life] Reference

The sedge-warbler, like the migratory warblers generally, comes to us in April and leaves us in September.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference

Then the path ran through a sedge field, white with the tall silvered panicled-leaves of the life-everlasting.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference

In places one comes upon old fields that have been allowed to revert to broom sedge, scrub oak and scrub pine.    From Wordnik.com.  [George Washington: Farmer] Reference

The sedge was wind-mown, and there were numberless prints of bird claws, but no mark of boat-keel or human foot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference

It leveled out in a small terrace with a stand of willows, some brush and sedge, and, near the back, a few pines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]

Though covered with reeds and sedge, the small field turned out to be a deep sinkhole of waterlogged clay and silt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]

He had covered his boat well with the tangle of sedge and marsh-vines, and after a long space of search, he found it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference

All in all, he told Nero, he was evoluting rapidly into an excellent woodsman, despite the peculiar appearance of the sedge mat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diane of the Green Van] Reference

It is the dear little sedge-warbler; often, indeed, heard, but not so often seen, for it is fond of hiding itself in bushes or sedges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference

Opalescent berries resemble heaps of pearls, and the lemon stalks of marine sedge gleam like wedges of gold in the crystalline depths.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference

Poor management and erosion soon depleted the supply of top soil and many areas were abandoned to broom sedge, blackberries and gullies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952] Reference

He pointed to a stretch of land, built of accumulated silt, in the middle of the river with sedge, reeds, and several trees growing on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Plains of Passage]

A fishery that gave poor and diminishing results, even with the Mayfly, sedge, and Welshman's button, was not suitable for dry-fly experts, and the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference

I am not clever in describing musical sounds, and I cannot describe that of the sedge-warbler, nor can I always distinguish it from the song of its near relative the reed-warbler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children] Reference