| 单词 | bulrush |
| 例句 | Then the Nazi search party arrived and we spent an hour lying in the mud along the riverbank, hiding in the bulrushes like Moses, waiting for them to leave. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “You will not be the first royal son of a slave to be secreted in the bulrushes.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Along the banks of the Wooded Island ice two feet thick locked Olmsted’s bulrush and sedge in cruel contortions. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She walked through the bulrushes and cordgrass to the very edge of the marsh’s waterline. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “You do me too much honor, sir,” said I. “I do not. You are a prince, are you not? And you are in the bulrushes.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He dispatched an army of collectors to the shores of Lake Calumet, where they gathered twenty-seven traincar loads of iris, sedge, bulrush, and other semiaquatic plants and grasses. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z That night, the girls cooked up a dinner of slightly burned fish, grubs, and bulrushes. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “What do you want for dinner — grubs or bulrush?” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Locke brushes his hand over the tops of cattails and bulrushes, looking abstracted. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Sedges and ferns and graceful bulrush would be planted on the banks of the Wooded Island to conjure density and intricacy and “to slightly screen, without hiding, flowers otherwise likely to be too obtrusive.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The cat stayed staring at him from behind some bulrushes for a while, then raised his tail so that it alone was in sight and twitched the end, enjoying the dog’s silent frustration. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He handed her back the single sock he was supposed to be identifying, which was patterned with golden bulrushes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Asta became a fly and flew as far as she could from Malcolm, stopping when it began to hurt, and settled at the very top of a bulrush so she could watch the man clearly. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z And I, Sam Gribley, felt just wonderful, just wonder- I pushed the raft down the stream and gathered ar- rowleaf bulbs, cattail tubers, bulrush roots, and the nutlike tubers of the sedges. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the bulrush shoots, shame and fear could be woven into a plaiting of surprising strength. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Aboveboard, the tall grass around the pond was buckling under the weight of the snow, but the happy bulrushes stood tall under Cat in the Hat-high caps of powder. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z We spent the morning making papier-mâché bowls and singing a song about Moses in the bulrushes. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The train runs northwest, through hundreds of miles of scraggy forests and granite outcrops, hundreds of small blue anonymous lakes edged with swamp and bulrushes and dead spruce, old snow in the shadows. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Yet this largely wordless series of tableaus tells a story of abandonment, and the baby in the bulrushes isn’t the only injured party. Review: ‘Go down, Moses,’ Romeo Castelluci’s Mostly Wordless Story of Abandonment 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z Scholars have argued that the Superman myth is the story of Moses, with the baby Kal-El arriving in a rocket ship rather than an ark of bulrushes. Superheroes: Born in New York City 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z The dance vocabulary is rich: wide squats, jumps that spin and kick, Egyptian poses, arms rippling like bulrushes, heavy steps. Dance Review: ‘Moses(es),’ Comes to Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-12-05T23:41:33Z The lake was layered with sweet flag, sedge, lilies, horehound, bulrush and buckbean. On the Water, and Into the Wild 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Dedicated to Nile gods and commissioned by wealthy citizens, they are set above a shore lined with bulrushes. A Nile Journey Guided by 19th-Century Women 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z But because the company uses native South Carolina bulrush, it couldn’t repair your basket, a representative said. How to repair an old basket from Africa 2016-06-10T04:00:00Z On seeing Mr Blair's cover photograph she began to sniffle: "He was so full of promise," she said, "And look at him now, he's a broken bulrush in the River Nile of life." Author, author: Adrian Mole, aka Sue Townsend 2010-09-03T23:06:00Z Even as I sit here at my desk, I bet there is a reporter in the kitchen at Noma, her notebook full of such thrilling curiosities as bulrushes, buckthorn and radishes in edible soil. The Sorcerer's Apprentices: A Season at el Bulli by Lisa Abend ? review 2011-04-10T02:00:01Z Inundating the land, and allowing the ancient bulrushes and cattails to return—or potentially cultivating rice—would stop those emissions immediately, and even store carbon as new plants grow. Carbon Credits Versus the “Big Gulp” 2022-06-07T04:00:00Z By the time my mother passed at age 100, there was only one item left in her apartment that she cherished — a huge framed needlepoint tapestry of Moses in the bulrushes hovering over her bed. Opinion | ‘Death Cleaning’: A Reckoning With Clutter, Grief and Memories 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z Sequestered in a small woven basket opened by a fleshy cluster of women, young and voluptuous or old and weathered, the pagan infant is a veritable Moses plucked from the bulrushes. Review: The Getty Villa's gem of a Peter Paul Rubens show 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z Black bass are good working bulrush or off grassy points before midday with topwater and weedless jigs and seem to be moving shallower for bait. Texas Fishing Report 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Black bass are good with more consistent spots with topwater next to bulrush or off grassy points. Texas Fishing Report 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z His mother wove baskets from bulrushes and pine needles and made quilts. David Driskell, advocate for African American art, dies at 88 of coronavirus 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z Black bass are fair in vegetation with worms and bulrush west and south lake. Texas Fishing Report 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z Black bass are fair in vegetation and bulrush moving shallower with jigs, spinners, and crankbait. Texas Fishing Report 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Largemouth bass are good fishing worms, jigs, and spinners in edges of bulrush and vegetation. Texas Fishing Report 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Largemouth Bass are fair among the edges of bulrush vegetation with jigs, spinners on points, and crankbaits in deeper structure. Texas Fishing Report 2020-01-15T05:00:00Z The team first built boats made of bundled bulrushes, similar in design to reed boats used by prehistoric peoples around the world; and then bamboo rafts, relying on traditional techniques used by Taiwan’s Amis tribe. Explorers to voyage to Japan in primitive boat in hopes of unlocking an ancient mystery 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z Here again you will see many side trails into the bulrushes and cattails, where the bird life is busier. L.A. Walks: The path to a vibrant marsh in Torrance’s industrial core 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Largemouth bass are good on worms, spinners, and crankbait in bulrush and cattails. Texas Fishing Report 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z We’d console him with a handful of bulrushes and some bean stock, and, once the milking was over, he would return to his mother and glean whatever milk was left. Fiction by Scholastique Mukasonga: “Cattle Praise Song” 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z With help from a small team of researchers, I resurrected them from the dormant seeds of a common coastal wetland plant, Olney’s bulrush, which drops seeds into the mud, where they lie dormant. What Zombie Plants Can Teach Us 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z The river here is narrow and lazy, lined with vivid green bulrushes and dotted with palm trees. Clearing Land Mines From the Spot Where Jesus Is Said to Have Been Baptized 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z Grasses, ferns, bulrush, salal and kinnikinick attract and nurture the birds that are returning to the garden in flocks. Habitat and wildlife were the big winners when a lakefront home’s shoreline was restored 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Muskrat lodges—small mounds made from bulrush and cattail—dot the landscape. Why Are These Males Growing Eggs? A creature at home in bulrushes and reeds, it is feared there are as few as 50 left, or maybe even fewer. Weekendish: The best of the week's reads 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z You’ll find Olney’s bulrush all across the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the US, quietly resisting the ocean’s tides and waves. What Zombie Plants Can Teach Us 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z Swallows darted over the cordgrass and bulrushes, and an osprey circled overhead. New War on Invasive Nutria in Delmarva Marshlands 2012-07-05T15:46:16Z It was also the bulrush of the Scriptures, in which the infant Moses was found. Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z A rugged resinous stem five to ten feet high supports a drooping plume of wiry foliage, from which a flowering bulrush springs. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z The infant Moses was, at the age of three months, placed in an ark of bulrushes by the river’s brink. Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z O Britons, when will ye be wise! when will ye throw away the ridiculous distinctions of party, those ends of bulrushes, and by a prudent union secure yourselves in a state of peace and prosperity! ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. 2012-03-19T02:00:22.807Z Care should be taken that children make nothing in the nature of stage scenery, such as trees, grass, bulrushes, and other bits of landscape. The Dramatization of Bible Stories An experiment in the religious education of children 2012-03-03T03:00:18.597Z "I be no more good than a bulrush." With Drake on the Spanish Main 2012-02-20T03:00:17.357Z There were great palm-trees; and there were bulrush hives, scarce a man's height, dotted all about to the sandy horizon, and the crimson sun. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z A knight unarmed, his spear a rotten bulrush. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z The Mouse accepts the challenge; and each of them entered the lists, armed with a point of a bulrush instead of a spear. ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. 2012-03-19T02:00:22.807Z A woven basket served for the cradle of bulrushes. The Dramatization of Bible Stories An experiment in the religious education of children 2012-03-03T03:00:18.597Z Scirpus, sir′pus, n. a genus of monocotyledonous plants, including the bulrushes. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z I recognized a staircase with a balustrade of swans each holding a stiff bulrush in its mouth.... Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z Mrs. Spalding and Mrs. Whitman were ferried over on a bulrush raft, made by the Indians for crossing. A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information 2012-01-20T03:00:11.607Z The light of torches, the burning bunches of bulrushes and straw, are tinting in a vibrating red the long, white and ghostly procession. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z A Hebrew mother hides her child among the bulrushes. The Dramatization of Bible Stories An experiment in the religious education of children 2012-03-03T03:00:18.597Z And he pushed his way between the roots of the bulrushes, and flew a little here and there, while the sunset gradually faded out of the sky, until he came to a most wonderful place. Robin's Rambles 2012-01-07T03:00:14.617Z About a hundred yards from where he stood was a frozen pool, on the edge of which grew a clump of bulrushes. The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z Sundry Stilts, Egrets, and four Squacco Herons stalked sedately in the shallows—one of the latter presently perching on a broken bulrush within ten yards of the boat. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z At all events, they broke upon us without our having had any suspicion of their being in our neighbourhood, bursting through the thick mimosas round us, as though they had been so many bulrushes. Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand 2011-12-02T03:00:22.447Z His mother has hidden him in the bulrushes to save his life. The Dramatization of Bible Stories An experiment in the religious education of children 2012-03-03T03:00:18.597Z This place was all fenced round with tall bulrushes, and inside you could see a green marshy spot, with cuckoo flowers and king-cups growing, and Somebody was booming there all alone. Robin's Rambles 2012-01-07T03:00:14.617Z Before the Cherokees burnt down their town on the Verdigris, their houses were chiefly covered with hand-wove matts of bulrushes. Villages of the Algonquian, Siouan, and Caddoan Tribes West of the Mississippi 2011-11-02T02:00:10.087Z The guns were next placed along a line of gigantic clumps of bulrushes which extended for miles with narrow glades, and thick, matted jungle between. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z The bulrushes are crossed and woven coarsely, and plaited flat. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z You thought you would catch my paw, and instead caught a bulrush root that I stuck down in the water to tickle your nose. Bluebeard 2011-09-19T02:00:13.657Z And he squeezed, and shoved, and slithered between the bulrushes. Robin's Rambles 2012-01-07T03:00:14.617Z Teacher: "Why did they hide Moses in the bulrushes?" Lighter Moments from the Notebook of Bishop Walsham How 2011-09-09T02:01:03.123Z I was fond of making little reed or bulrush or ash flutes, but once I was in a place where these were difficult to get, and I lost the only one I had. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z She took for him an ark of bulrushes . . . and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink. Thoughts for the Quiet Hour 2011-09-03T02:00:17.117Z But it seems I have nipped nothing except a bulrush root. Bluebeard 2011-09-19T02:00:13.657Z "Don't you mind him," said Tom Sedge-Warbler, who was swinging on a tall bulrush hard by. Robin's Rambles 2012-01-07T03:00:14.617Z He is angry, and, inquiring with which eye she sees him, puts it out with a bulrush. Ulster Folklore 2011-08-25T02:00:26.683Z He saw her among the bulrushes in the swamp over by Staonaig. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z The moon was high in the sky, and every tree and bulrush on the bank was plainly visible. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z “Why,” said Arthur, “all we can see is the Lea, which is as barren as the crown of my hat, except in weeds and bulrushes!” World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z At last they were stopped by thick masses of weeds, and a great bunch of the reed-mace, often called bulrushes, and decided to land on the sandbank. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z And in the twinkle of an eye were to be seen many large boats and the narrow Cossack craft, generally called chaiki, with bulrushes fastened around them. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z His dishes were all made of gold; made after the fashion of those which are plaited of bulrushes or ropes. The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us 2011-08-02T02:00:21.843Z In New Zealand the plant is different, being a single stem from six to ten inches high: its apex, when in a state of fructification, resembles the club-headed bulrush in miniature. Notes and Queries, Vol. III, Number 83, May 31, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc 2011-07-26T02:00:17.693Z In more restless moods, she would climb tall bulrushes, or swing among the long, ribbon-like iris leaves. Minnie; or, The Little Woman A Fairy Story 2011-07-18T02:00:19.717Z The reed-mace is like a bulrush, but three times as tall, and larger. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z I suppose I must have seized a bulrush root instead, as he says;” and he let the Jackal go. Old Deccan Days or Hindoo Fairy Legends Current in Southern India 2011-07-12T02:00:31.917Z He left her sitting on the mound, went a few steps forward to some bulrushes, pulled up one, and disappeared in the opening where the rush had been. Myths and Folk Tales of Ireland 2011-06-29T02:00:25.760Z The same worm, however, is also found at the base of the leaves of bulrushes and in other like situations, and there is no evidence that it actually feeds on the sponge. Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa 2011-06-25T02:00:17.833Z He could push the boat through the reeds and bulrushes and find snug harbourage under the willows. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z "We must be like the bulrush, not like brittle grass," Tahajo, the oldest and hence presumed the wisest, had declared. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z The infant Moses was, at the age of three months, placed in an ark of bulrushes by the river's brink. A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z The Fletcher account is fairly specific on particulars of dress—women wore shredded bulrush skirts and deerskin shoulder capes, and men were ordinarily naked. Francis Drake and the California Indians, 1579 2011-05-26T02:00:16.780Z I have not found this race except in Calcutta, in the ponds of which it grows on bricks or, very commonly, on the stems of bulrushes, often covering a considerable area. Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa 2011-06-25T02:00:17.833Z And then Teddy Turtle crawled out from behind some bulrushes and began to laugh. Little Jack Rabbit and Chippy Chipmunk 2011-05-09T02:00:03.903Z The river horse couches there among the bulrushes, and on a great granite throne sits the God Memnon. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z Or ran the chromatic scale up; For spring bade the sparrows pair, And the boys and girls gave guesses, And stalls in our street looked rare With bulrush and water-cresses. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z A great point to remember is, that the possessors of the Broads set as much store by their bulrushes and water lilies as the admiring visitor; therefore, do not gather any off the Broads. The Handbook to the Rivers and Broads of Norfolk & Suffolk 2011-04-27T02:00:21.617Z She came, gliding in and out of the bulrush and the sedge. Japanese Fairy Tales 2011-04-15T02:00:14.617Z The wind drifted it towards a thick plantation of water reeds and bulrushes near the shore. Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:55.273Z Tangles of reeds grew at the water's edge, lank bulrushes, sweet-flags, and clumps of willows. Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:00:56.713Z Moses does n't care a bulrush for you or me; but when he hears of a Lord Charles or Lord Augustus, he alters his tone. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z They started with much whistling and circling,-97- and went away up river under overhanging trees that sometimes swished the funnel, splashing the meadow path and making the reeds and bulrushes dance with their wash. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z The flags, reeds, and bulrushes were twisted separately into small strings. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z The forest was close on their right, they kept near the shore to avoid the current, and the shallow water before them was covered with a dense growth of tall bulrushes. Historic Handbook of the Northern Tour 2011-02-10T03:00:53.020Z Even the glassy blue dragon-flies, which had been hovering ceaselessly on their gossamer wings round the stems of the bulrushes, had disappeared. Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:00:56.713Z Mose did not swear profanely, but "by Moses;" and everything was as true, as high, as big, as handsome, as "Moses in de bulrushes." Brother Against Brother The War on the Border 2011-02-09T03:00:46.430Z Dark bulrushes edged the shores, and the water-flag planted its golden tents between. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z They went out in bands to gather the flags, reeds, and bulrushes which they needed. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z Is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z After travelling thus for an hour along a narrow stream, overgrown with bulrushes, we ultimately arrived at the last lake. Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:00:56.713Z He had surveyed for drains through a field that had never grown much but bulrushes, and Billy had another two acres of black loam added to his tillable area. God's Green Country A Novel of Canadian Rural Life 2010-12-21T22:55:55.287Z Over the reeds and bulrushes they could see the massed park trees rising toward the heavens like purple walls. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Many stretches, too, of dry, hard ground were encountered, where more rapid progress was possible than among the bulrushes and tall reeds. The Baron's Sons 2010-12-20T17:12:02.667Z But on the morrow, lo and behold! his bed was but a bush of bulrushes, and his pillow a tuft of moss. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z For instance, bulrush, an aquatic plant, is believed to increase blood flow and improve performance. Magical Thinking at World Cup 2010-06-10T03:37:00Z It was uncanny to hear the dry dark heads of the bulrushes, whipped by wind and wet, sighing and rattling as they struck against each other. The Undying Past Every particle of him quivered like a bulrush in a running stream. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race And on the opposite side of the pond-like expanse and apparently grounded among the bulrushes they saw their canoe. Stranded in Arcady We crossed plashes of water where the tops of bulrushes peeped above, and where the lizards lay silently on the surface, looking at us with an unmoved stare. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z "Half rotten," he said to himself, "and it ought to go down as easily as a bulrush." Dick's Desertion A Boy's Adventures in Canadian Forests Here it was impossible to strike out with the oars, and only by pushing herself off with her hands from one clump of bulrushes to another did she at length get into open water. The Undying Past They walked along the shore wending their way between the birches and the high bulrushes, apparently with the intention of making the circuit of the small island. The Dead Lake and Other Tales Anna was not found in the bulrushes and she was not adopted by a king’s daughter. Village Life in America 1852-1872 Including the period of the American Civil War as told in the diary of a school-girl Each carried in her hand a bundle of bulrushes, and on her head a garland of ivy and a crop of moss, from whence streamed their long golden tresses over their shoulders. Rambles in an Old City comprising antiquarian, historical, biographical and political associations The leeches attach themselves to his legs and feet, and as he moves along their haunts, he feels them bite, and gathers them as they cluster round the roots of the bulrushes and sea-weeds. Illustrative Anecdotes of the Animal Kingdom Down by the pond, where the velvet bulrushes glistened with silvery dew, ducks were quacking. The Undying Past They walked along the shore wending their way between the birches and the high bulrushes, apparently with the intention of making, the circuit of the small island. L'Arrabiata and Other Tales We are taken to the banks of the Nile, shown the ancient Nile meter, and the exact spot where Moses was found in the bulrushes. My Trip Around the World August, 1895-May, 1896 The white hemlock shoots up rankly by the hedge, and the tall bulrush and water-lily mark the course of the little stream which is sliding noiselessly past among the grass. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 Willy Wisp went zigzagging to and fro, trying to imagine what would come next, and Bud laid her head on a bulrush pillow to dream of stars till morning. Lulu's Library, Volume II Occasionally he sent forth a pathetic neigh in the direction of the bank, where the white awning of a swimming-bath glimmered above the woolly heads of the bulrushes. The Undying Past The stem of a bulrush shook, suggestive of hideous gambols at its roots.... Leonore Stubbs And Hiawatha, who did not wish Mudjekeewis to know that nothing in the world could do him injury, told him that only the bulrush had such power. The Story of Hiawatha Adapted from Longfellow The history then begins with the finding of Moses in the bulrushes, and the subsequent gift to him of this ruby by the daughter of Pharaoh. An Artist in Crime The other was a grassy border, where sedges and bulrushes grew, and cows came down from the meadows to drink. The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts Stones stood in it, like islands; bulrushes fringed the coast; the floor was paved with the pine needles; and the pines themselves, whose roots made promontories, looked down silently on their green images. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) She was rather scantily dressed, and her arms and feet were bare; round her neck, however, was a handsome string of corals, with ornaments of gold; in her hand she held a bulrush. p. Lavengro The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest They were flung off, as Shakspeare’s striking imagery expresses it, like An unregarded bulrush on the stream, To rot itself with motion. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors As he had been found in the bulrushes on the banks of the Nile, so she had found him on the grass in the Venn--would he become a great man like him? The Son of His Mother They were powerless as a rotten bulrush to protect me—impotent as idiot babblings to restrain him! Shirley The chill wind hissed and sobbed among the bulrushes, and in the coarse marsh grass that fringed the water on all sides except that of the dam. The Broom-Squire "Well, I will not contradict you, for you generally are right," says she, as meek as Moses—yes, Moses in the bulrushes, "but not quite all, I hope." Phemie Frost's Experiences “There is no good talking to him,” said a dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a 127 large brown bulrush; “no good at all, for he has gone away.” The Happy Prince and Other Tales They are, indeed, trees or shrubs, which, from one point of view, may be regarded as gigantic bulrushes. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 The first was the island of Hirugo, which, as it was a miscarriage, they put in a boat of bulrushes and let it float away. Japan Here in the shallow water lay three boats, or rather rafts, constructed of bundles of bulrushes. The Cat of Bubastes A Tale of Ancient Egypt Next morning she again traveled the winding path that skirted the marsh-grass and bulrushes, this time on the pinto. The Biography of a Prairie Girl The part I cross over is full of bulrushes, and is the home of moor-hens, water rats, mosquitoes and frogs. “Crumps”, The Plain Story of a Canadian Who Went It was only about ten feet across; but it bore a favourable thicket of osier-willow, and all around it the sedge and bulrush reared an impenetrable screen. The Backwoodsmen It looked most attractive with the willows and bulrushes and tangly interior. The Madcap of the School To the right was a mill, with a great pond thick with bulrushes and water-lilies, full of water-birds, coots and moorhens, which swam about, uttering plaintive cries. Beside Still Waters Below the bluff the herd stood, belly deep, lashing about them with wet tails, and the pigs wallowed among the wilting bulrushes in damp security. The Biography of a Prairie Girl Apricot, bulrush, cedar, plane, cherry, corn, currant, daffodils, daisies, flax, lark's heels, marigolds, narcissus, nettles, oak, oxlips, plantain, reed, primrose, rose, thyme, rush. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare “Whoever brings out cord sufficient to make an ear for a tub, bulrush sufficient to hang the sieve and the riddle?” Hebrew Literature The channel too, was clear and still like crystal, save where the swell from the bows of the Inverness rolled away to the low shore and set the bulrushes nodding a stately welcome. The End of the Rainbow The meadow was dotted with yellow-rayed flowers, and in the moist places the tall bulrush lifted its dark brown head. A Vanished Hand Pharaoh's daughter went down to the river to bathe when she found the babe in the ark of bulrushes. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity Of these three the one by far the largest came in at the extreme head of the lake, at a point where it is nearly filled with bulrushes. Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier The spindle for bulrushes is not to be sprinkled either on the spindle or on the ring. Hebrew Literature From a rugged stem, varying from two to ten or twelve feet in height, springs a tuft of drooping wiry foliage, from the centre of which rises a spike not unlike a huge bulrush. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia There he would be, sitting upon his hind-legs, holding in his fore-feet the root of a bulrush, and champing away with his sharp teeth so as to be heard at a considerable distance. A Vanished Hand And there among the bulrushes, one bright June morning, he had a fight with one of his own kind. Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals Most strange against it, a fringe of marshy grass, of bulrushes! The Spirit of Rome The red heifer was bound with a rope of bulrushes and she was put on the place of preparation, with her head southward and with her face westward. Hebrew Literature It was also a very pleasant spot, where reeds and bulrushes and water-plants protected him from the glare of the sun, whilst before him the water-lilies spread their broad leaves upon the water. Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young He was the son of Itti-Bel, and a legend related how he had been born in concealment and sent adrift in an ark of bulrushes on the waters of the Euphrates. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Where Ugh-lomi lay was well hidden from the tribe by a thicket of alders, and all fenced about with bulrushes and tall reeds. Tales of Space and Time Along the sands, black, hard and full of coloured shells, was a strip of bulrushes. The Spirit of Rome This wall marks the spot, according to local tradition, where Moses was taken from the bulrushes. The Critic in the Orient At the border of the wood, near a large lake, stood the old mansion: deep ditches surrounded it on every side, in which reeds and bulrushes grew. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen The jackdaw hopped gravely past all this toward the chair of the Gnome King, who stretched out his sceptre, a tall bulrush of gold, and touched the jackdaw, who at once turned into a dwarf. The Magic Soap Bubble Clad in a dress of silk was she, Green as the leaves which deck the tree, Her head so winsomely to see With bulrush plaited was. The Brother Avenged and Other Ballads It would remind me of Moses in the bulrushes. History, Manners, and Customs of the North American Indians The bulrushes are no more because they have been dredged out, but the place has the look of extreme age and the garden contains many curious trees. The Critic in the Orient The bulrushes rise in ranks, like the spears of a great army, surrounding and guarding the colony of the marsh. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year Again using her bulrush to tickle the faces that looked most injured, and waken them into smiles—‘Here’s the prison house open,’ and she sprang out. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster "You said a baby, and I couldn't see even a bulrush." The Opened Shutters They are neither blue nor reddish, Neither are they white like linen, But his eyes they shine like lake-foam, Like the lake-reed are they brownish, And as lovely as the bulrush. Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes He contemplated being able to conceal himself in a heavy sedge of bulrushes that grew along the edge of the river, and towards these he was evidently directing his course under the water. Popular Adventure Tales She had hidden her two babies among the bulrushes for safety, and must stay there herself to keep them warm. Bird Stories "Sakes! you must have been found in the bulrushes at Pharaoh's daughter and made a prophet of." The Manxman A Novel - 1895 And the river grew wider, and the trees appeared to reach the sky, and the flags and bulrushes were like young palm-trees, and the flowers shot up to a great size. Little Folks A Magazine for the Young (Date of issue unknown) One man was sent to the Long Pond, with orders to look everywhere, and borrow the punt and push in among the bulrushes. Wood Magic A Fable The canoe was headed for the bulrushes near the point where the27 trumpeter had been last seen; and a few strokes of the paddles brought the little craft with a whizzing sound among the sedge. Popular Adventure Tales And yet they think Oneida loves them—bends like the bulrush when the wind blows upon her, and rises only when he departs. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 Strange that the principle of the Menai Straits' railway bridge, and of the iron pillars in the Crystal Palace, existed is the Arkite dove, and in the bulrushes that grew round the cradle of Moses! The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The Bible was none o' your fiddlin' pocket things, but a good substantial one, wi' pitchers o' Moses in the bulrushes an' Abraham scarifyin' 'is son, an' such like. Between the Lines They took the child and bound him firmly in a willow basket and then put him in the lake among the bulrushes. Finnish Legends for English Children Harry plucked up a stout bulrush that grew near by, and held it out over the plank to the girls to serve as a kind of support for them to hold by. The Nursery, August 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 2 One place the bulrushes and marsh grass beside the road grow up higher than your head. It’s like this, cat They kept no canoes; depending only on temporary rafts of bulrushes or willows, if not convenient to ford or swim across the streams. Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California Like the infant Moses lying in the ark of bulrushes on the waters of the Nile he represents the future of the chosen people; but will some princess passing by perchance see him? Spontaneous Activity in Education My soul was bowed down like a bulrush for some days after I came here. The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada Susan Maples was the first to lay hold of the thick end of the bulrush, by which Harry led her across. The Nursery, August 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 2 A few mats, woven coarsely from bulrushes, covered a portion of the earth floor. The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago As he spoke, he plucked the top of a bulrush, and threw it with such good aim, that it struck a calabash which appeared to be floating among others on the surface of the pond. The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance Or ran the chromatic scale up: For spring bade the sparrows pair, And the boys and girls gave guesses, And stalls in our streets looked rare With bulrush and watercresses. The Book of Humorous Verse Let us now look out for the coots and water-hens, which love to dabble amongst the weeds of these pools, and to hide amongst the hedges and bulrushes that so thickly skirt them. Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children She was rather scantily dressed, and her arms and feet were bare; round her neck, however, was a handsome string of corals, with ornaments of gold: in her hand she held a bulrush. Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest No, no! my dear child; but I believe I must return your little bulrush receptacle, for yonder is my journey's end. The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764 A “petate” is a small mat about the size of a blanket, woven out of palm-strips, or bulrushes, according to the district; it is the universal bed of the Mexican peasant. The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico The canoe was headed for the bulrushes near the point where the trumpeter had been last seen; and a few strokes of the paddles brought the little craft with a whizzing sound among the sedge. The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North O, there's nothing to be seen along the shores," said she; "nothing but bulrushes and willows. Rollo in Holland They stripped the downy spikes of the bulrushes to stuff cushions and pillows, and wove the rushes themselves into mats. The Widow's Dog Through the fields ran lovely canals, full of fish, and bordered with reeds and bulrushes. Peeps at Many Lands: Ancient Egypt They call her nurse, and stint her in her food: Thus art, in spits of nature, makes them all Mere bulrushes: and therefore they’re belov’d. The Comedies of Terence VII Every bulrush, parched and welted, Lifts his long joints yellow-belted; Every lotus, faint and sick, Hangs her fragrant tongue to lick. Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse The stork chattering to her young on the house-peak may feel that her nest is lifted out of danger, but the croaking frog in neighboring bulrushes is nearer the stars than she. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 She can keep off from her brother more evils than Miriam could have driven back water-fowl or crocodile from the ark of bulrushes. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony Looking about carefully, Peggy pulled a long bulrush from a clump that grew at the side of the bog. Three Margarets Blow upon blow, thwack upon thwack—they fought hand to hand until black rock and bulrush were all gone. The Indian Fairy Book From the Original Legends Now it would be at the berries, now among the bulrushes of Dhu Loch. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure And Randal would plait helmets with green rushes for her and him, and make spears of bulrushes, and play at tilts and tournaments. The Gold Of Fairnilee Don't let Miriam get down off the bank of the Nile, and wade out and upset the ark of bulrushes. The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony On reaching their point of destination, which was where the river was less rapid, and its banks sedgy and thickly grown with flaggers and bulrushes, the sport of spearing for eels commenced. Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes Ebony went down before him like a bulrush before the hurricane, but, unlike it, he did not rise again. The Madman and the Pirate Round about the bulrush nods; old great trees stand in the rains knee-deep like the cattle upon its marge pondering, and the breath of oak and hazel hangs from shore to shore. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure In about five days after leaving Norway House we arrived at the mouth of Red River; and a very swampy, sedgy, flat-looking mouth it was, covered with tall bulrushes and swarming with water-fowl. Hudson Bay The lighthouse rose out of the sea like a bulrush out of a pond! Personal Reminiscences in Book Making and Some Short Stories The part of the river they had reached was so perfectly still that every cloud in the sky, every mangrove, root and spray, and every bending bulrush, was perfectly reproduced in the reflected world below. Black Ivory The giant was in the midst of it; but weak as the bulrush were the mighty limbs of Maximus before the rushing gale. Ungava Neither soldier nor shepherd seems to be in you, a muckle bulrush nodding to the winds of Heaven! Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Mosquitoes again attacked us as we glided down its gloomy current, and nothing but swamps, filled with immense bulrushes, were visible around. Hudson Bay It was surrounded by some very high and some lower hills, and we were just under a beetling cliff with good water in a stream among bulrushes, reeds, and tropical vegetation. Southern Arabia I should like some of those bulrushes,” and he pointed to a cluster of the brown poker-like growth rising from the water, well out of reach from the bank. The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias However, there he was, gazing up at us from the bulrushes, with mild, friendly eyes and a little tail that was poised for wagging at the slightest provocation. In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country “How beautiful!” cried Anna, as, after a little more encouragement, she found herself safely on the punt by Delia’s side, surrounded by water-lilies and bulrushes. Thistle and Rose A Story for Girls The General of the Jesuits wields, they say, wonderful power; but his sceptre is a bulrush beside the truncheon which these kings of the earth hold in their grasp. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Then he stopped, as still as the rock he was standing on, and peeped through the bulrushes. Mother West Wind's Children Why do I float around in this old ark of reeds and bulrushes, like an elderly Moses in search of a promised land, who should be at home wearing the slippers of middle age? The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Near him, on the top of a tall bulrush, sat the little fairy Ting-a-ling. Ting-a-ling There was both excitement and triumph in these captures, and while they were going on the girls forgot that any coolness had come between them, or that the world held much beyond water-lilies and bulrushes. Thistle and Rose A Story for Girls On a third she had wound herself up in a mat of bulrushes. Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels And, sneaking through the bulrushes, so as not to be seen, crawled Billy Mink, back towards his home on the Laughing Brook. Mother West Wind's Children The severed locks fell into the stream that rippled beside him through the bulrush stems. Fort Amity Another story is that the deity took mortal shape as a child without birth, and was found by a newly-married weaver’s wife lying in a lotus flower on a tank, like Moses in the bulrushes. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) On the quiet sedgy bank of a stagnant pool, and under the shadow of rank reeds and bulrushes, sat two frogs. The Frog Who Would A Wooing Go At times it was all I could do not to tear the bulrushes off her and beat her with the heads of them. Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels Suddenly out of the brown bulrushes burst the Merry Little Breezes and surrounded old Grandfather Frog. Mother West Wind's Children Tracing it upwards, the brook becomes narrower and the stream less, though running more swiftly; and here there is a marshy spot with willows, and between them some bulrushes and great bunches of bullpolls. Round About a Great Estate Like bulrush low to bow His sorrow-stricken head, With sackcloth for his inner vest, And ashes round him spread? Hymns for Christian Devotion Especially Adapted to the Universalist Denomination And when she could not longer hide him, she took him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and pitch and put the child therein. Fair to Look Upon With her bare feet and wild bulrushes all around her, she looked as a cave woman might have looked, her eyes radiant with the Caribbean dawn. Winsome Winnie and other New Nonsense Novels Opposite Old Cairo lies the island of Roda, where, according to Arab tradition, Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" He could see Mr. Redwing flying 'round and 'round, this way and that way over the bulrushes. Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs One special tableau from the Egyptian booth was the finding of Moses in the bulrushes. Sixty Years of California Song "Come away, beautiful flower," said the kingfisher; "do not waste your beauty in this melancholy mere; float away down the gleaming river where tall bulrushes grow and where you shall find companions." Tom, Dot and Talking Mouse and Other Bedtime Stories Dem sunhats made out of shucks and bulrushes was mighty fine to wear in de field when de sun was hot. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 The frogs have leaves of willow on their legs, cabbage leaves for shields, cockle-shells for helmets, and bulrushes for spears. History of English Humour, Vol. 1 With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Sleepy as he was, he just couldn't go home without first finding out what had happened in the bulrushes. Tell Me Another Story The Book of Story Programs Little more is heard until Pharaoh's daughter went botanizing and found Moses in the bulrushes. Some Winter Days in Iowa “Yes,” said I, “and the same river Nile that Moses was put on in the ark of bulrushes.” We and the World, Part I A Book for Boys There was a lawn for tennis and cricket, a pond planted with irises and bulrushes, and a wild corner where crocuses and coltsfoot and golden aconite came up as they liked in the spring time. The Luckiest Girl in the School Two or three heavy jumps landed him, not among the bulrushes as he had hoped, but in a pool of muddy water where he sank up to his middle with alarming rapidity. St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, September 1878, No. 11 First he noticed the bulrushes growing with their feet in the water. Mother West Wind "Where" Stories In this ark she placed her infant son, and hid the ark among the flags and bulrushes on the river-bank, and set the child's sister to watch it. Mother Stories from the Old Testament A Book of the Best Stories from the Old Testament that Mothers can tell their Children "If we want arms, these bulrushes will serve for spears." The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars A man may "bow down his head as a bulrush," or fast, or clothe himself in sackcloth, when he is an utter stranger to that "repentance to salvation not to be repented of." The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution Smart Mr Alligator, to take that old bulrush root for my paw! Stories to Tell Children Fifty-Four Stories With Some Suggestions For Telling And for the first time since he had turned his backward somersault into the bulrushes, he smiled widely. The Tale of Solomon Owl It was not Moses in the bulrushes, to be sure—but a child in a wicker wagon, floating down the current amid a lot of sticks and branches. Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories There's that red-winged blackbird in the bulrushes again. The Voice of the People On either side of this road, so deep in dust, are meadows lined with bulrushes, while there lies a village, here a lonely church. Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition His flesh trembled about him like a pole against the torrent or like a bulrush against the stream, every member and every joint and every point and every knuckle of him from crown to ground. The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge And all he could do was to turn a somersault backward among some bulrushes, hoping that Solomon Owl had not seen him. The Tale of Solomon Owl Among the spices exported, the most celebrated wore bdellium, and the juncus odoratus or odoriferous bulrush. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 6. (of 7): Parthia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. Surely that is little Moses being taken from the bulrushes! A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London') The stork, on the house-peak, may feel that her nest is lifted far out of danger, but the croaking frog in the neighboring bulrushes is nearer the stars than she. New National Fourth Reader Farther than this, the effort would be like attempting to stop the floods of the Amazon with a bulrush. The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character He it was that Jochebed with loving hands had laid in the bulrushes when 120 years ago Pharaoh had persecuted them. The Bible Period by Period A Manual for the Study of the Bible by Periods Their spears, too, instead of being made with the bulrush, and only pointed with hard wood, are composed entirely of it, and are consequently more ponderous. Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land With a Particular Enumeration of the Advantages Which These Colonies Offer for Emigration, and Their Superiority in Many Respects Over Those Possessed by the United States of America Sprinkle with cowslips and willow leaves, insert in a pie-dish and cover with a thick paste of bulrushes and marsh grass. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, May 16, 1917 At the last table, every head seemed bent like a bulrush while A.B. spoke of the ascension of Christ. The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne "Well," said the father, "I will also get the bulrush root." Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) The Suddozye Lora runs through the valley, about two miles from the town: it is a small stream, crowded here and there with bulrushes, sedges, etc. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries Colour, wherever it is found, whether in these cottages or in a block of serpentine by the roadside, or in the golden bulrush blades by the lake shore, takes more than double value. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series The Merry Little Breezes raced so hard that they were quite out of breath when they burst through the bulrushes and surrounded Grandfather Frog, as he sat on his big green lily-pad. Mother West Wind 'Why' Stories "My subject is, God; Joseph; and Moses in the bulrushes!" McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896 He commenced again, in a strain of mock sensitiveness repeating the same words; at last he cried out, "It is the root of the bulrush." Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) It is in some places much choked by bulrushes, etc., it is eighty yards broad, and is shingly. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries Only, if you can't do like your horses, and sup off bulrushes, you are likely to fast for the next twenty-four hours. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 They reached the Smiling Pool before Longlegs, who had taken a roundabout way, and they hid among the bulrushes where they could see and not be seen. The Adventures of Grandfather Frog Here were two young men—Moseses, as it were, saved from the bulrushes. Willis the Pilot The bulrush nods unto his brother The wheatears whisper to each other: What is it they say? The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson I beheld thrice fifty boys on silvern chairs around him, and there were fifteen bulrushes in the hand of that red-freckled boy, with a thorn at the end of each of the rushes. The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga With Introductions And Notes Over the spaces left uncovered by the supply of bark sheets there were laid down long mats made by Indian hands from dried reeds and bulrushes, affording no inconsiderable protection against the weather. The Mississippi Bubble And over in the bulrushes on the other side, Little Joe Otter and Billy Mink nudged each other and clapped their hands over their mouths to keep from laughing aloud. The Adventures of Grandfather Frog Sir Saville's own paintings now cover Lady Paget's chocolate cherubs—only those above the door and their bulrushes are left to tell the tale. The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912 As he paddled slowly in, he found the water shallower, and weeds, bulrushes, and reeds became thick, except quite in the centre. After London Or, Wild England Water-buffaloes are wading and swimming about in the overflowed jungle, browsing off bulrushes and rank grass. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama The wind whispers them, the birds whistle them, the corn, barley, and bulrushes hoarsely rustle them. Selections from Five English Poets At a bend in it she came to a spot where a young man was seated amongst the bulrushes, watching his fishing net. The Waters of Edera High bulrushes, tall flags; thick, sedgy vegetation beneath; the ground, firm enough below at first, soon became quaking and felt strangely elastic under their feet. The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune There were no signs whatever of human habitation, and from reeds and bulrushes, however interesting, nothing could be gained. After London Or, Wild England The men go quite naked, but the women have a deerskin over their shoulders, and round their waist a covering of bulrushes after the manner of hemp. In the Footprints of the Padres They have very fair wheat, the ear of which is two hand-breadths long and as big as a great bulrush, the stem or straw being almost as thick as a man's little finger. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 To the young man sitting now on its bank amidst the bulrushes it was as living as himself, his playmate, friend, and master, all in one. The Waters of Edera "Ordgar the guide, whom we thought we had secured so opportunely, led us into the marshes and left us therein; and while we were there, the English fired the reeds and bulrushes on all sides." The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune Its infancy was as feeble as that of Moses, sleeping in the bulrushes by the Nile; and like Miriam, there our fathers stood and watched it. The Abominations of Modern Society Even the buffaloes have nothing to do but float the livelong day deeply immersed in the bulrushes. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series This lake was surrounded by yarra trees similar to those on the banks of the river; and within them was a narrow belt of slender reeds but no bulrushes. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 He sat thus amongst the bulrushes for many an hour, on many a spring day and summer night. The Waters of Edera They are built of rough sticks, covered with bulrushes or grass, in such a manner as to completely protect the inhabitants from all the inclemencies of the weather. What I Saw in California It terminated however in higher ground where bulrushes grew, and which seemed very strange, because we then approached a much more open and elevated country. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1 Suppose me one of Homer's frogs, my lord, Tossing my bulrush thus. The White Devil They were old and overgrown with bushes, but they proved that this lake had once contained mussels and the balyan or bulrush, a root eaten by the natives and cooked in such ovens as these. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 It proves to be Sergeant Anderson's baby whose cradle has started afloat, and there is a general rush to rescue Moses from his bulrushes. The New North They shall bend before my oratory as the bulrushes of the Nile when the wind passes. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People Contiguous to the best part, was a large fresh water swamp, overgrown with reeds and bulrushes. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 2 Little Friend the Song Sparrow had tucked his head under his wing and gone to sleep among the alders along the Laughing Brook and Redwing the Blackbird had done the same thing among the bulrushes. The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad Black swans being numerous, we shot several; and found some eggs which we thought a luxury among the bulrushes at the water's edge. Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 Through the jungle of reeds and bulrushes in the foreground this figure advanced; and with the same unaccountable impulse that had coerced him in his dream, he answered the whistle of the advancing figure. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 5 General, and I am picked up among the weeds on the sea-shore, like Moses in the bulrushes. Frontier Stories The place was encumbered with fallen branches, tangled brushwood, dead ferns; and wherever the little stream had spread itself there was a boggy hollow, rank with bulrushes, and glorious with the starry marsh marigold. Fated to Be Free The stream fed, through little sluices, a big, square pond, full, I was told, in summer of bulrushes and water-lilies. Father Payne To droop one's head like a bulrush, And to lie down in sackcloth and ashes? The Makers and Teachers of Judaism I beseech thee, go to the river of thine experience, and pull up a few bulrushes, and weave them into an ark, wherein thy infant faith may float safely on the stream. The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little And among these bulrushes a certain gloomy little object was either a Hebrew prophet or a muskrat. Not Pretty, but Precious It stood on a knoll, and in the distance, almost hidden in bulrushes, was the last arm of the lake. The Lake He replied, "Nothing but decayed piles of bulrushes in this place, of straw in that, and of fire brands in a third." The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love "And do you know about his being found in the bulrushes, and the story of the king of Ethiopia's daughter?" Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" Because Moses was a little thing when they found him, and then the ark of bulrushes was something like a birdsnest. Rollo at Play Safe Amusements The black lines on the left were bulrushes. Not Pretty, but Precious She had found him, as Pharaoh's daughter had found Moses in the bulrushes; she had taught him to speak, to think, to love. The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays The Negro need not bow his head like a bulrush in the presence of a race whose records are as stained by crime and dishonor as theirs. Trial and Triumph “There is no good talking to him,” said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; “no good at all, for he has gone away.” The Happy Prince and Other Tales Then he will swing away into the air and run down the wind, gurgling music without stint over the unheeding tussocks of meadow-grass and dark clumps of bulrushes that mark his domain. My Garden Acquaintance The stork clattering to her young on the house peak may feel that her nest is lifted far out of danger, but the croaking frog in neighboring bulrushes is nearer the stars than she. Hans Brinker; or, the Silver Skates But don't move a step forward, or your life is not worth a bulrush.' Oliver Twist Sometimes, disguised as a large drake, he used to lurk among the bulrushes, and frighten the weary traveller out of his wits by his awful quack. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 Almost before I knew, I was among the bulrushes, with my feet in the slime of the bank. Prester John Smart Mr. Alligator, to take that old bulrush root for my paw! Stories to Tell to Children They passed a cane-brake where canes twenty feet high whispered together like bulrushes. The Blue Lagoon: a romance Stones stood in it, like islands; bulrushes fringed the coast; the floor was paved with the pine needles; and the pines themselves, whose roots made promontories, looked down silently on their green images. Prince Otto, a Romance He had not eaten since early morning, so he now pulled up some bulrushes and ate of the tender bulbs, while the pony grazed as best he could on the tops of the tall grass. Old Indian Days On the near side a thick growth of bush clothed the bank, but on the far side I made out a swamp with tall bulrushes. Prester John The meaner sort are covered with mats which they make of a kind of bulrush, and are also indifferently tight and warm, but not so good as the former.... Walden It stood alone beside a swamp bordered with alder thickets and tall bulrushes. Summer Thus, over snowy prairies and half-frozen marshes; wading sometimes to their waists in mud, water, and bulrushes, they urged their way through the spongy, saturated wilderness. France and England in North America; a Series of Historical Narratives — Part 3 Our feet glide swiftly over unfathomed depths, where in summer our line tempted the pout and perch, and where the stately pickerel lurked in the long corridors formed by the bulrushes. Excursions No wonder that the ancient Egyptians, with such jewels in their blue treasure-house, were famous astrologers and astronomers before the days when Rameses' daughter found Moses in the bulrushes of Roda Island! It Happened in Egypt Behold Moses, in his cradle of bulrushes, exposed to the waters and the crocodiles of the Nile! Female Scripture Biographies, Volume I This was the tules, a vast spread of marsh covered with bulrushes, flat as a floor, and extending from a distant arm of the bay back into the land. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California He pulled out his watch as we stood gazing idly over the green meadow and the dark motionless bulrushes. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 I shall know every stump of willow—every bulrush before I am a month older.' The Golden Calf I got up from my seat to see if I could find the speakers; and sure enough, there on one of the cat-tail bulrushes, I spied two tiny pale-green creatures. What Katy Did But absent-minded and gloomy George Talboys had strolled away along the margin of the ditch, and stood striking the bulrushes with his cane, half a dozen paces away from Robert and Alicia. Lady Audley's Secret Picking up the knife and chisel he went back to where the bulrushes began and crushed in among them. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California On the banks of the creek and round the springs an immense quantity of rushes, bulrushes, and other water-plants are growing. Explorations in Australia The Journals of John McDouall Stuart From the bosom of the marsh itself, rose bulrushes and pollard willows, towered over by gigantic noisy reeds. A Love Story Then quickly rose sir Bedivere, and ran, And, leaping down the ridges lightly, plunged Among the bulrush beds, and clutch'd the sword, And strongly wheeled and threw it. There & Back These boats—of the most primitive kind of construction still in existence—are made of bulrushes, the papyrus of the ancients. Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia with Some Account of the Late Emperor the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People Here in the heart of the tules, where a head moving over the bulrush floor might be discerned, sound would not carry far. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California "But Moses did not think it necessary to go and live in a desert, or on an uninhabited island, merely because he was found in those bulrushes." Afloat and Ashore A Sea Tale Once it spread out into a lake, in which was a little island covered with tall bulrushes and purple loosestrife. Two Summers in Guyenne It is for this that I have poured over such works as Huxley, Herbert Spencer, Moses in the bulrushes, Anaxagoras, Lucretius and Hoyle. Remarks The bulrushes are tied together so as to form a flat surface some six feet in breadth and from ten to twenty feet in length. Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia with Some Account of the Late Emperor the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People Knapp, packing the other can, could hear the sound of his heavy movements, the hacking of the knife at the bulrush stalks and then the thud of falling earth. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California There are no mysteries below the surface, and it is a waste of time to look for knots in a bulrush. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 But instead of hitting the narrow open channel into the main lake, he rushed across the wide bar, through a veritable forest of bulrushes. The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories At last, after struggling through a grove of high bulrushes, we came on a spot the gloomy horror of which might have furnished Dante with a fresh terror for his "Inferno." The Mystery of Cloomber On the 13th of April we made our third experiment of the bulrush boats, as the Emperor desired once more to see his dear friends before they left. Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia with Some Account of the Late Emperor the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People A grunt of acquiescence came from the bulrushes, the hacking of the knife, the thuds going on. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California As her mother delayed her return, she went from the wall down to the gate, and out to the low river shore where the bulrushes swayed in the gentle south wind. Historical Miniatures The young Moses was there, in his ark of bulrushes, on the river bank. The Fallen Leaves I love this sprightly little river better than the melancholy Thames, along whose banks saturnine immoralities flourish like bulrushes! Memoirs of My Dead Life There was some twenty of us, that lay close crouched down among the reeds and bulrushes that grew in the moat that goes round the city. The Adventures of Ulysses It lives in beds of bulrushes, and when seen flying from the spectator in a very strong light, at a distance of twenty or thirty yards, its colour in appearance is bright cerulean blue. Birds in Town and Village For several days they had followed the picturesque banks of the green river, with its bulrushes and willows, and its swarms of wild duck and herons. Historical Miniatures Beneath his matted brow there lay An eye that squinted every way; A crooked nose and monstrous lips he bore, And goat-skin round his trunk he wore, With bulrush belt. Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes The bulrush of Scripture is found here, and is used by coopers to stanch their work. The Bushman — Life in a New Country Its clear, gently flowing current, margined by bulrushes and grassy banks, produces an effect of mental peacefulness, very different from the rushing turbulent waters and rocky banks of Maine and New Hampshire rivers. The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne She searched between reeds and bulrushes; tramped and tramped on the muddy shore, never thinking of how deep her foot sank, and how wet she had become. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Around the house ran a boldly-carved stone parapet, bearing the herons and bulrushes which were the cognisance of the noble race for which the mansion was built. Phantom Fortune, a Novel "How funny you talk, Harry; you make me think of little Moses in the bulrushes." Natalie A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds I was once looking out for ducks or coots in a thicket of bulrushes higher than my head, when I was startled by hearing a loud "bomb!" at no great distance from me. The Bushman — Life in a New Country These birds are very industrious in constructing their nests, which they build with bulrushes and the small leaves of the palm, and other trees, in a very curious and ingenious manner. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 02 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Once I saw a ploughman and his team of oxen being ferried across the lake on a bulrush raft. Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush? An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments I pulled a bulrush of about ten feet. Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) "Junk," old rope, is from the Latin juncus, a bulrush,—the material used along the Mediterranean shore for calking; "oakum," from the Saxon oecumbe, or hemp. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 The men are generally naked; but the women make a kind of petticoat of bulrushes, which they comb like hemp, and throw the skin of a deer over their shoulders. The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 06 Reviews, Political Tracts, and Lives of Eminent Persons For several miles above its mouth, the Mississippi presents no objects more interesting than mud banks, monstrous bulrushes, and now and then a huge crocodile luxuriating in the slime. Domestic Manners of the Americans The Observation is that "Repentance for an hour, or a day, is not worth a bulrush!" An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments Its venomous denizens slipped away through the bulrushes; the cattle roaming freely upon its hardened surface trampled the superabundant undergrowth. Old Creole Days In one such dismal pit—not here—I remember there grew a great quantity of bulrushes. The Open Air In one we have the root of the bulrush,—not the light, feathery rush itself. Algonquin Legends of New England Presently Pharaoh's daughter came, as was her habit, to the river to bathe, as Moses's mother expected that she would, and there she noticed the "ark" floating among the bulrushes. The Emancipation of Massachusetts It was the plunging of some small body in the water from among the neighboring bulrushes; if it was not a water-rat, Bob intimated that he was ready to undergo the most unpleasant consequences. The Mill on the Floss It was a relief to rest now, as she and Habrunt cowered together in the bulrushes by the stream. Si'Wren of the Patriarchs In these luxuriant years the plants grew as thick as sedges and bulrushes in their beds, and were taller than usual, attaining a height of about ten feet. Far Away and Long Ago Howbeit it was well for the world and well for him that he then gathered bulrushes and smote his younger brother, so that he died. Algonquin Legends of New England We had such a jolly day in the woods and on the water—amid the water-lilies and bulrushes, or the shade of the cedars. Spring Days Uncle Felix watched him move forward, where Maria was already using the heaped-up greenery as a cushion for her back, and pick something off the stem of a giant bulrush. The Extra Day But look as they would, they couldn't see a single singer among the brown bulrushes. The Adventures of Johnny Chuck They were built of burnt or unburnt brick, more often clay and brushwood, and thatched with sedges or bulrushes. Far Away and Long Ago And, looking at him, he said, "No club can kill me; nothing but a bulrush or cat-tail can take my life." Algonquin Legends of New England We ordered her to bring us a quantity of bulrushes and flowers for our tableaux to-night, and we want her to be Rebecca at the well. A Garland for Girls That mere she felt must look very cool and beautiful on such a night as this, and the wind would whisper sweetly among the tall bulrushes which fringed its banks. Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch He states that he ascended the Mississippi for nine days, when he “entered the mouth of the Long River, which looks like a lake full of bulrushes.” The Great Salt Lake Trail It was one of those lakes which appear to be drying up, and was pretty well covered with a growth of camalote plant, mixed with reed, sedge, and bulrush patches. Far Away and Long Ago The Mephistophelian and mocking character of Lox is strongly shown when he says, "Nothing but a cat-tail or bulrush can kill me," this being evidently an allusion to Glooskap. Algonquin Legends of New England There were the bulrushes and the Strand magazines; and the linoleum sandy from the boys' boots. Jacob's Room The hut itself was hidden away in a little clump of swamp willows that grew upon a mound in the midst of a marshy plain, broken here and there by patches of reed and bulrushes. Lysbeth, a Tale of the Dutch Heath and fern covered the ground, but near the water grew dense masses of flag and bulrush, amongst which the light wind sighed wearily. The Book of Were-Wolves It was a long low thatched ranch without trees, and could not be seen from our house as it stood behind a marshy lake overgrown with all bulrushes. Far Away and Long Ago And he, being determined to give the elder no time, answered truly and fearlessly, "I can only be slain by the stroke of a cat-tail or bulrush." Algonquin Legends of New England Small lakes of accumulated surface-water are passed in depressions having no outlet; thickets and bulrushes are growing around the edges, and the surfaces of some are fairly black with multitudes of wild-ducks. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran I am trying to simplify a child's approach to culture, being persuaded that the first study makes its impression on all the others and that pedagogy teaches us to look for knots in bulrushes. The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters Then go hide in the bulrushes where you can watch him, but where he cannot see you. The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat Thence sprang the beautiful stream of the Nemnich, rich in lilies and reeds and bulrushes, which to-day men call the Nanny Water. The Coming of Cuculain These are usually about fifty feet high, and ornamented on the summit with clumps of tall reeds or bulrushes. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, He was hidden among bulrushes," explained Desire, "but he couldn't exactly live there. The Window-Gazer She did not however forget her bulrushes, and when they came in sight of them, she ran forwards to claim Rupert's promise of gathering some for her and her little brother and sister. Abbeychurch "Chugarum!" said Grandfather Frog in his great deep voice from the bulrushes. The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat On the laws? the law which should be like a sword in a strong hand, is weak as a bulrush if it be feebly administered in time of danger. Sir Thomas More, or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society Once or twice before reaching the depot, we saw one or two places with dried-up bulrushes growing in the bed, and water may have existed there in the sand. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, So with a vigorous shove we launched our boat from the bank, while the flags and bulrushes courtesied a God-speed, and dropped silently down the stream. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers This was a service of difficulty, for some of the bulrushes grew in the water, and others on deceitful ground, where a pool appeared wherever Rupert set his foot. Abbeychurch Together they hunted up Little Joe Otter, and then the three little scamps in brown hid in the bulrushes, where they could watch Farmer Brown's boy. The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat He plunged into the water, getting through the bulrushes. The Untilled Field On the 27th of May we camped close to a red hill on the south bank of the river; just below it, was another spring, at which a few reeds and some bulrushes were growing. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, It was full twice as broad as before, deep and tranquil, with a muddy bottom, and bordered with willows, beyond which spread broad lagoons covered with pads, bulrushes, and flags. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers The disordered brain repeating "Bulls! bulls! bulls!" he then drew a bulldog, a pair of bullfinches surrounded by bulrushes, and a hooked bull trout fighting furiously for freedom. The Days Before Yesterday Mr. and Mrs. Redwing had come back to the bulrushes from their winter home way down in the warm Southland. The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat "Well, your cap was picked up in the bulrushes." The Untilled Field A line of green bulrushes fringed this spring. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Two or three heavy jumps landed him, not among the bulrushes, as he had hoped, but in a pool of muddy water, where he sank up to his middle with alarming rapidity. Under the Lilacs They were on a narrow path skirting a wood, when she suddenly expressed a wish for some tall bulrushes that grew beside a stream, some distance below. Maurice Guest He was sitting among the bulrushes on the edge of the Smiling Pool, for the lily-pads were not yet big enough for him to sit on comfortably. The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat Aha! my boys, here's a beautiful green meadow; and there's a sweet brook with bulrushes. Foul Play The channel is thickly set with fine tall bulrushes. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, I could run wild with grief now, to behold The rankness of her bounties, that doth breed Such bulrushes; these mushroom gentlemen, That shoot up in a night to place and worship. Every Man out of His Humour It must be exceedingly unhealthy, as, for several square miles upon the sea margin, the country is an expanse of marsh and bulrushes, abounding with snipe during the winter months. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 Grandfather Frog sat among the bulrushes on the edge of the Smiling Pool. The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat As if he had said, If I kill thee, I shall blush, be ashamed, and hang my head like a bulrush the next time I come into the company of thy brother. The Pharisee and Publican Many of these glens had fine rock-holes as well as running springs; most of the channels were full of bulrushes and the peculiar Stemodia. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Then the heavy pine whipsticks bent like bulrushes in the drivers' skilful hands, while a spray of dissevered hair, and sometimes a line of springing blood, followed each detonation—the libretto being in keeping. Such Is Life Blow upon blow, thwack upon thwack-they fought hand to hand until black rock and bulrush were all gone. The Junior Classics — Volume 1 The bulrushes, which had always grown with their feet in the water, now had them only in mud, and that was fast drying up. The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat Groups hung craning over it like nodding bulrushes. Hard Cash Ponds and streams have an unpleasant habit of drying up in summer, and often the pickerel weed looks as brown as a bulrush where it is stranded in the baked mud in August. Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors "She was carried to the plague-pit in her bridal-robes, jewels and lace; and, when about to be thrown in, was discovered, like Moses is the bulrushes, to be all alive." The Midnight Queen First one and then the other, Manabozho poured in a tempest of black rock, while the West discharged a shower of bulrush. The Junior Classics — Volume 1 The bulrushes nodded, as if they too were thinking of this. The Adventures of Jerry Muskrat I liked the shape, but the boys laughed at it as they did at my bulrushes in a ginger-jar over there. Jack and Jill Or ran the chromatic scale up: For spring bade the sparrows pair, And the boys and girls gave guesses, And stalls in our street looked rare With bulrush and water-cresses. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 I am lost from a ship of which my father—Heaven rest him—is General, and I am picked up among the weeds on the sea-shore, like Moses in the bulrushes. On the Frontier "Well," said the father, "I will also get a little of the bulrush root, to learn how it tastes." The Junior Classics — Volume 1 "Mrs. Redwing has a new speckled egg in her nest in the bulrushes," said Grandfather Frog. Old Mother West Wind I see you have lived long in this world; do you know anything about the three bulrushes?' The Crimson Fairy Book At intervals the trees lost their icy covering, and the bulrushes and underbrush were bare; but the lake lay frozen and hard beneath the sun. The Story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy Foolish men, That e'er will trust their honour in a bark Made of so slight weak bulrush as is woman, Apt every minute to sink it! The Duchess of Malfi A grain called dochan, a species of millet, is likewise cultivated to a considerable extent; when ripe, it somewhat resembles the head of the bulrush. The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia, and the sword hunters of the Hamran arabs "We must see it," cried the Merry Little Breezes, and away they all ran to the swamp where the bulrushes grow. Old Mother West Wind Then she asked if they knew anything about the three bulrushes, but not one of them did. The Crimson Fairy Book Among the queer names of foundlings are "Nameless," "Godsend," "Subpoena," and "Moyses and Aaron, two children found," not in the bulrushes, but "in the street." Books and Bookmen You are like the man who looks for knots in a bulrush. Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau Workmen were trudging along with their luncheon-baskets of woven bulrushes slung over their shoulders. The Diary of a Goose Girl When the Merry Little Breezes reached the swamp where the bulrushes grow they found poor Mrs. Redwing in great distress. Old Mother West Wind The old woman sent after it at once, and when she questioned the magpies the crippled one was the only one who knew where the three bulrushes were. The Crimson Fairy Book Billy's sharp eyes had seen something moving over in the bulrushes. Adventures of Reddy Fox Jochebed accordingly took an ark fashioned of bulrushes, daubed it with pitch on the outside, and lined it with clay within. The Legends of the Jews — Volume 2 The frogs hop about, the teal bathe in the pond, the water-fowl come and go, a hare starts; you are the master of this delicious bath, decorated with iris and bulrushes. Sons of the Soil And while she sang the Merry Little Breezes danced among the bulrushes, for they knew, and Mrs. Redwing knew, that some day out of that pretty new speckled egg would come a wee baby Redwing. Old Mother West Wind Then he looked about for the three bulrushes, pulled them up and set off with them on his way home. The Crimson Fairy Book A grin crept over the sharp little old face peering out from the bulrushes. Adventures of Reddy Fox "Moses wasn't born in the bulrushes, Emmy dear," corrected Rebecca laughingly. New Chronicles of Rebecca He split the second bulrush as an experiment and just the same thing happened. The Crimson Fairy Book How careful he was of the third bulrush! The Crimson Fairy Book As he rode along one of the bulrushes happened to knock against something. The Crimson Fairy Book Mr. Redwing was singing for joy over in the bulrushes on the edge of the Smiling Pool. Adventures of Reddy Fox |
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