The giant was in the midst of it; but weak as the bulrush were the mighty limbs of Maximus before the rushing gale. From Wordnik.com. [Ungava] Reference
A kind of bulrush, and are also indifferently tight and warm, but not so good as the former. From Wordnik.com. [Walden] Reference
The bulrush moves and the ash issues from the tube. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
They were powerless as a rotten bulrush to protect me!. From Wordnik.com. [Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference
Different names for millet are bulrush millet, pearl millet. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 5] Reference
Shame will make a man blush and hang his head like a bulrush. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
Smart Mr Alligator, to take that old bulrush root for my paw!. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling] Reference
Smart Mr. Alligator, to take that old bulrush root for my paw!. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Tell to Children] Reference
The woman from the bulrush basket or the woman from Plato's myth?. From Wordnik.com. [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]
Around her, the fragrance of sweetgrass and bulrush scents the air. From Wordnik.com. [Basket maker Mary Jackson among artists included in African Art Museum show] Reference
Rare plants include a sedge, button-bush dodder and saltmarsh bulrush. From Wordnik.com. [Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve, New York] Reference
“Balyan” of the Lachlan, (a bulrush mentioned in my former journals). From Wordnik.com. [Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia] Reference
There are also two major types of millet; finger millet and bulrush millet. From Wordnik.com. [1. Lost crops of the incas.] Reference
He split the second bulrush as an experiment and just the same thing happened. From Wordnik.com. [The Crimson Fairy Book] Reference
In the dens where dragons dwelt before, shall rise up the verdure of the reed and the bulrush. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference
The ribbonfish brought its preposterously flat head down as the bulrush craft sputtered close. From Wordnik.com. [Centaur Aisle]
This summer, the U.S. Army Corp. of Engineers plans to plant willows, bulrush, and salt grass. From Wordnik.com. [Napa, Without the Wine] Reference
The outside frames were covered with sheets of tree bark, such as cedar, or woven bulrush mats. From Wordnik.com. [History of American Women] Reference
Neither soldier nor shepherd seems to be in you, a muckle bulrush nodding to the winds of Heaven!. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
The old Alligator was hidden away beneath the mud and bulrush leaves, and he couldn't see anything. From Wordnik.com. [Stories to Tell to Children] Reference
Adams Point is home to robust knotweed, hairy brome grass and lined bulrush, all rare in the state. From Wordnik.com. [Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Hampshire] Reference
There are no mysteries below the surface, and it is a waste of time to look for knots in a bulrush. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
Farther than this, the effort would be like attempting to stop the floods of the Amazon with a bulrush. From Wordnik.com. [The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character] Reference
Embu: mwere English: bulrush millet, pearl millet, spiked millet Kamba: mwee Kambe: muwele Kikuyu: mwere. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
Again it occurred to him that Tereza was a child put in a pitch-daubed bulrush basket and sent downstream. From Wordnik.com. [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]
Next there came scattered cabins built of earth, branches, and bulrush-hurdles, and all of a conical shape. From Wordnik.com. [Salammbo] Reference
Wet and mesic prairies were dominated by tall grasses, while marshes supported cord grass and river bulrush. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Illinois (EPA)] Reference
For months She moped around Her living room in Heaven, head drooped like a bulrush, while the lines piled up. From Wordnik.com. ['Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives'] Reference
English: pearl millet, bulrush millet, cattail millet, candle millet Ethiopia: bultuk (Oromo), dagusa (Amharic). From Wordnik.com. [4. Pearl Millet] Reference
Other species grow throughout the marsh, such as wild rice, golden club, jewelweed, river bulrush and smartweed. From Wordnik.com. [Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maryland] Reference
And, looking at him, he said, "No club can kill me; nothing but a bulrush or cat-tail can take my life.". From Wordnik.com. [Algonquin Legends of New England] Reference
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