Far bays and sedgy ponds; and rolling rivers bend. From Wordnik.com. [Lilith The Legend of the First Woman] Reference
And in his sedgy bed the lark, for joy that Day is nigh. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Poems] Reference
It is dotted with small, low, sedgy islands, marshes and swamps. From Wordnik.com. [Nick Baba's Last Drink and Other Sketches] Reference
Gladly sing the happy song-birds, While 'mid sedgy haunts they hide. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
The sedgy pools and ditches in the forest were noisy with the hoarse croaking of colonies of frogs. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
African river, he suddenly finds himself moving calmly onward between sedgy shores, buried in mangroves. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Ferdiad's charioteer let him not, so that Laeg turned on him and left him on the sedgy bottom of the ford. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge] Reference
"We're studying the ways of the great sea-serpent!" shouted back Dol, who was splashing about in a sedgy pool. From Wordnik.com. [Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods] Reference
Far away across the sedgy tundra lay the sea, a line of molten gold in the last rays of the belated June sunset. From Wordnik.com. [Baldy of Nome] Reference
There she stands, drawn up high and dry upon the sedgy bank of Thames, like an old warrior resting after his toil. From Wordnik.com. [Westward Ho!] Reference
They usually prefer sedgy lakes, large swampy morasses and brooks, or ponds and rivers well stocked with vegetation. From Wordnik.com. [Birds Illustrated by Color Photograph [April, 1897] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life] Reference
They proceed to a more private room; so thick are the Persian carpets he feels he is sinking into "some reluctant, sedgy sea.". From Wordnik.com. [Melville in Love] Reference
Enda took the helmet, dress, and spear, and it was not long until he came to the sedgy banks where his little boat was waiting for him. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Spears And Other Fairy Tales] Reference
"Blessings be upon you, Enda," said the swan, and she sailed away from the shadow out into the light across the lake to the sedgy banks. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Spears And Other Fairy Tales] Reference
Dense forests, impassable morasses, and sedgy streams always bounded the immediate prospect, and the clearings were few and far between. From Wordnik.com. [The Englishwoman in America] Reference
Normandy, had the audacity to say, 'from its broken walls we see not merely the pleasant vale of Seine, but also the sedgy flats of our own. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
Martin and Will were chirping farewells, and lamenting that they would have no more chances of studying water-snakes in sedgy pools with Dol. From Wordnik.com. [Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods] Reference
The sedgy grasses on either side are full of water birds. From Wordnik.com. [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference
The pictures were of woods and lakes, or a bit of sedgy river. From Wordnik.com. [A Modern Cinderella] Reference
Fauquier Cary, dismounting, walked up the sedgy slope and asked to speak to his nephew. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Roll] Reference
How we longed for ammunition to kill some of the water-fowl which rose from the sedgy shores!. From Wordnik.com. [In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting] Reference
Boulogne -- a little secluded, sedgy pool, hardly more than six inches deep and six yards across. From Wordnik.com. [The Martian] Reference
But never more will I plant myself, like a weeping willow, upon the sedgy bank of stream or river. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches — Volume 01] Reference
The valley had a marshy stream with sedgy margins and occasional clumps of alder and willow trees. From Wordnik.com. [Afoot in England] Reference
It was like a new world, so different was it from the sand hills and the sedgy levels of Henlopen. From Wordnik.com. [Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates] Reference
The low, sedgy places were frozen over and covered with snow; the edges of the bay, Charles River, and. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Girl in Old Boston] Reference
One example will suffice for present illustration -- the sweet-pogonia or grass-pink of our sedgy swamps. From Wordnik.com. [My Studio Neighbors] Reference
There were sedgy plants in bloom, jack-in-the-pulpit, and what might have been a lily, with a more euphonious name. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Girl in Old Salem] Reference
River; and a very swampy, sedgy, flat-looking mouth it was, covered with tall bulrushes and swarming with water-fowl. From Wordnik.com. [Hudson Bay] Reference
The solider and more permanent part of Fairport was well withdrawn from the sandy, sedgy stretches that bordered on tidewater. From Wordnik.com. [The Cruise of the Jasper B.] Reference
The perfume of the open land grew in the night air, -- the scent of dew-wet grass, the smell of still water and of sedgy shores. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaming Jewel] Reference
There is nothing, it appears, except long sedgy grass, and a little soil to prevent its sinking into the shades of eternal night. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson] Reference
I could almost fancy I was in the country, for there were a few rushes and some sedgy growth close to where the rat had been busy. From Wordnik.com. [Patience Wins War in the Works] Reference
Some love the open wave; others the sedgy marsh; while one or two species roost upon trees, and build their nests in the hollow trunks. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North] Reference
It is very gentle in its course, and winds along between grassy and sedgy banks, with a good growth of weeds in some part of its current. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.] Reference
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