| 单词 | sedge |
| 例句 | Just as strawberries are adapted to birds, so acorns are adapted to squirrels, mangos to bats, and some sedges to ants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z From beneath her, amplified by the stone arch, came the hiss of the breeze disturbing the sedge, and a sudden beating of wings against water which subsided abruptly. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It did look like a little cool, green room with walls of foliage, a door of sedge stalks, and a thick, springy carpet of matted undergrowth. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z “Don’t play foolish now. It’s important I remember. “Broom sedge,” she added, still remembering. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Rhythmically, without haste, it sucked down a floating sedge fly and sank back under water. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Now the faintest stirring of a breeze rustled the display of sedge that stood before the fireplace. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z They could not see the two dogs at all, only the steady furrowing of the sedge where, invisible, the dogs quar-tered the slope until one of them flung up his head to look back. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind gusted; she turned and walked slowly back home, trailing her fingers on the tips of the sedges and thinking about her departure. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He whirled and saw the Ancient standing there, his hands parting the thin curtain of sedge stalks which hid their nest from the path. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z Skirting a small lake, they had stared to see a great gray fisher bird that stabbed and paddled in the sedge, until a flight of wild duck had frightened them away with their clamor. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They crossed through the sedge to a fence and climbed through, holding down the wire for each other with their hands. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Miyax tied another red patch on the sedge, rounded a boggy pond, and climbed the heave where the owl lived. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The hill is grassy, but the site of the Confederate stand is toward the back of the rise, under the cover of broom sedge and pine shrubs. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z Restless with hunger, he wandered up the banks of the creek, investigating every rock and hollow, pushing his hopeful nose through tunnels of withered sedge and into the yielding earth of molehills. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Each called from his roost—all but the little bird of the sedge. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As they set off up the left bank, the wind began to blow in fitful, warm gusts, with a multifoliate rustling through the sedges. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z In the field the dead sedge was drifted nearly out of sight and the snow stood in razor kerfs atop the fencewires and the silence was breathless. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z 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 It was only a short distance now to the river, but among the sodden patches of rushes, the bushes and sedge and deep puddles, they found it next to impossible to tell their direction. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Marsh sedge grew there, pink, sweet-scented valerian and the drooping water avens. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing scary in the treetops or among the sedge now. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z While they romped, Jello took the opportunity to rest behind a clump of sedge, a moisture-loving plant of the tundra. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Frightful watched a duck fly into the reeds and a willet find shelter behind a dense clump of sedge. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z As Pipkin reached the path a great, shimmering dragonfly, four inches long, all emerald and sable, appeared at his shoulder, hovered, droning and motionless, and was gone like lightning into the sedge. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 In the marshy ground where the stream met the lake she found dense patches of sedge. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Frost had begun to sparkle on the dry sedge and a cloud trailed across the moon. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z They left the cart overturned in a field of sedge and he took the coats and the blankets wrapped in the plastic tarp and they set out. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Where, she asked, was the bird of the sedge? Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As she tied the first piece of cloth to a bent sedge, she looked down on a small pile of droppings. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He wagged his tail and led her down the hill, through the sedges, and up the long slope to the wolf den. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z They came upon many hidden pools, and broad acres of sedge waving above wet and treacherous bogs; but Shadowfax found the way, and the other horses followed in his swath. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z A cement and brick pillbox had been built down by the river, right on the bend, among the sedges, destroying the nests of the teal and the gray wagtails. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Quickly she took the thongs from her boots, made a noose, and placed it under the sedge. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Geese and ducks paddled among cattails and sedges that lined the river’s edge. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Old T.R. trotted ahead or dropped behind or went dashing off across worn-out fields grown up in broom sedge. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The ducks and geese and herons hunkered down in the sedges and reeds. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “And the sedge—we’ve dyed it, you know—is it the proper gray and ebon?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z There are two aspects to sedge planting I find alluring. Sick of buying mulch for the garden? The pros have a different idea. 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z I am partial to fine-leafed sedges that will adapt to dry conditions once established, such as the oak sedge, botanically Carex pensylvanica. The 10 best perennials you’ve never heard of 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z Stacks of fresh lumber sit steps away from wooden buildings being overtaken by nature, sedges and wildflowers poking out between splintered planks. In Alaska, Slowing Down to Take Things In 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z It is a terrain markedly different from the machair and more typical of the landscape of western Scotland, a place of acidic peatlands and rock outcroppings supporting colonies of heather, bracken, sedges and mosses. The wild beauty of Scotland’s Western Isles 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z We logged more than 20 species, including a sedge, the shade-tolerant stonecrop Sedum ternatum, the wild cranesbill Geranium maculatum, spring beauties, phlox, a yellow flowering violet and the wood aster. What you can learn from a walk through the woods 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z The plumed goldenrod would be a great front of the border plant, perhaps as a filler, much like a grass or sedge with the bonus of erupting into bloom in the weeks ahead. This valuable plant looks like ragweed, but allergy sufferers can breathe easy 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z We tramp the gravel, level the asters, and sedge grass on the roadside. The Cost of Defying the President 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z The nursery lists 35 sedge varieties, up from just two in 1991. Sick of buying mulch for the garden? The pros have a different idea. 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Replacing pachysandra with Pennsylvania sedge, for example, is like exchanging dumplings for angel hair pasta. Sick of buying mulch for the garden? The pros have a different idea. 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z You probably wouldn’t want to walk all over a sedge lawn, but you’d need to cut it only once a year. Sick of buying mulch for the garden? The pros have a different idea. 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z The gardeners here have planted the basins with Nebraska sedge, a species suited to flood and drought. National Arboretum’s “Grass Roots”: A brighter future for the lawn Like the sedge as the waves break over it, the fourth stanza struggles for foothold, and seems designed to remain a little unfinished. Poem of the week: What mystery pervades a well! by Emily Dickinson 2010-10-04T09:21:00Z The Pennsylvania sedge, for example, feeds as many as three dozen species of caterpillars. Sick of buying mulch for the garden? The pros have a different idea. 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z Retracing our route up the sloping meadow into the forest, we dropped onto a large sedge flat on our way to the shoreline. U.S. Issue: It?s a Bear?s World in Kodiak, Alaska 2011-05-13T20:16:28Z A former poet laureate of Alaska, he revels in the natural: river otters and Arctic char, sedge wrens and yellow warblers, witch hazel and the wolves of Denali. Books Of the Times: Five Poets Seasoned by Life 2011-05-29T22:06:07Z These include grasses and sedges; wind-pollinated shade trees such as oaks and maples; ferns; bamboos; and a host of conifers, small and large. Can a garden be too bee-friendly? 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 As the fall progresses, the meadow grasses and sedges will come to the fore, with the tan and purple hues of their stems and seedheads. At Longwood Gardens, a new meadow for the ages She suggests using two to four species to create a mini-meadow, adding that it’s essential to use a grass or sedge for the framework. Want to create a butterfly garden? Here’s what to plant, based on your space. 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z Among the native species, by far the most popular is Pennsylvania sedge, which is apple green, finely textured and forms spreading colonies in the shade garden. Sick of buying mulch for the garden? The pros have a different idea. 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z But there is another significant difference that places sedges squarely in a modern approach to ecologically driven gardening. Sick of buying mulch for the garden? The pros have a different idea. 2017-07-12T04:00:00Z It contains about a third of her 250 surviving pieces, ranging from delicate drawings of sedge flowers to panoramas of New England valleys, and classroom banners charting granite veins and volcanic layers. Antiques: 1930s Children?s Art on Display in SoHo 2011-01-20T22:50:27Z You will find lists of deer-resistant plants, including members of the mint family as well as asters, goldenrods, grasses, ferns and sedges. In deer territory, good fences make good gardens 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z The original native lawn planting at Cornell, in 2009, included more than 20 species of plants, with 11 grasses and sedges among them — a designed plant community modeled after natural grass- and sedge-dominated ones. For less environmental damage and more biodiversity, turn to native plant lawns 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z Fall rains spur new growth on grasses, sedges and some annuals, which helps suppress winter weeds. Amazon's rooftop prairie welcomes nature into the heart of Seattle 2023-08-05T04:00:00Z Backyards full of wispy sedge grass, verdant moss, and wildflower meadows are helping bring gardens and green spaces back to life. Why clover lawns are a good alternative to grass 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z The animals are herbivores, primarily eating grass and sedges, and can run up to 30 mph. Woman tried to avoid bison, Yellowstone officials say, but was gored: A possible reason why 2023-07-19T04:00:00Z He recommends New Zealand sedge, which is a rusty color, and some of the pennisetum Sedge for sunnier areas. To maximize curb appeal, try simplifying your landscape | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z The logs are covered in mulch, on which crews planted more than 30,000 native plants, shrubs and trees: Nootka rose, snowberry, cottonwoods, Lyngbye’s sedge, beach grass. How stray logs in Puget Sound turn industrial shorelines green 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z She lists the type of colorful foliage hikers can expect to see on each trip, from Geyer’s sedge to blue wildrye and rosy spirea. ‘Fall Color Hikes: Washington’ author explains why she loves autumn hikes in WA 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z Upon reaching adulthood, they must climb out of the water, grabbing onto the stem of a sedge or other nearby plant. It’s time to slow down and appreciate nature’s tiny marvels 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z At Hazelwood, on the shores of Lough Gill, I walked through a Jurassic-like forest of bramble, sedge and fern, and trees jacketed in soft moss. A road trip through Yeats country in County Sligo, Ireland 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Cerrado de Pé’s planters had sown nearly 200 species of native grasses, sedges, rushes, herbs and bushes, plants of all sizes and shapes. Can Planting a Trillion New Trees Save the World? 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z Bunchgrasses, a broad category that includes sedges and eyelash or mosquito grass, can also stand up to repeated wear. How to keep a yard safe for your dog — and protect the yard, too 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z The Arctic's dominant shrubs, sedges and other wetland plants were no longer sequestering more carbon late in the season. Arctic greening won’t save the climate 2022-04-05T04:00:00Z Many of the plants near a pond, such as sedges, can assist with taking up the algae in the water. Are you sure you want to plant bamboo? Expert advice on the fast-growing plant 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z Even so, the decision to cancel a festival that celebrates the natural wonder of sedge warblers, ospreys, redwings and wigeons that are able to take to the skies carbon-free has left many fans crestfallen. Birdwatchers flocked to this British ‘birdfair’ for 30 years. Now, it’s ending because of climate change. 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z In the 1990s, the shore was covered with sedge and the lake bottom was strewn with the rounded shells of native mollusks. Golden mussels are devastating South American rivers. The Amazon may be next 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z “Grasses that develop a bit of color in autumn are sophisticated and simple in a vase. I’m thinking of Miscanthus, sedge and Japanese forest grass, but there are many to choose from,” says Morgan. Fall home design now: No trends, just cozy and welcoming | Produced by Seattle Times Marketing 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z “We just had an endangered sedge pop up. And we had a state-threatened saltmarsh aster appear that we relocated to our salt marsh,” she said. Why you should do your spring planting in the fall 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z If you don’t want to mow at all, you could put in some suitable ground covers or some lower growing ornamental grasses or sedges, but installing those will require initial work and cost. Gardening expert weighs in on fall veggies, what to plant in a wet, shady strip and more 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z What was once a coastal bay is now dotted with small lakes, peat bogs, and mires with white sphagnum mosses and grassy sedge plants. The Art of Pondering Earth's Distant Future 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z Ferns, sedges and cranesbills are among those that will freshen up these areas, but be guided by your light conditions. Expert advice on crowded gardens and alternative lawn ideas 2021-05-31T04:00:00Z Instead, the hotel is clearly on the ground, horizontal rather than vertical, positioned next to a coral bell, pachysandra, periwinkle and some type of sedge grass. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Enough, already. Give women’s sports fair coverage. 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z The star continued on to apologize for an additional 2011 video, also now private, in which she rapped anti-Asian slurs while wearing a traditional Asian sedge hat. Longtime YouTuber Jenna Marbles leaves her channel after apologizing for blackface 2020-06-26T04:00:00Z They found a community of different sphagnum and sedge species – some adapted to live on the raised hummocks and ridges, others thriving in the lower, soggier spots. Scotland's bogs reveal a secret paradise for birds and beetles 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Their landscaping of sedge grasses, bottlebrush and strawberry trees was untouched too, except for some scorched lavender. One year later: Homeowners share lessons learned from the deadly Woolsey Fire 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z Below, dozens of brown bears dug clams, ate sedge grass and loped across tidal flats, ready for chum salmon to arrive. Miners vs. fishermen: Alaska's Pebble Mine risks wild salmon for gold 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z Soft sedge meadows dimpled with belly tracks from beavers hustling to and fro. Wood chips fly at Elwha River as beavers make a comeback 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z Miles ahead, the road flattened out at 11,000 feet, revealing a vast plateau where only sedges grew. Venezuelans Fleeing Crisis Face Desperate Hike to 12,000 Feet 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Beneath the moss and the heather and the sedge lies one of the planet’s largest surviving expanses of peat – a nutrient-poor, carbon-dense mass of partly decayed organic matter. Scotland's bogs reveal a secret paradise for birds and beetles 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z FAIRBANKS, Alaska — It is the last great stretch of nothingness in the United States, a vast landscape of mosses, sedges and shrubs that is home to migrating caribou and the winter dens of polar bears. The hunt for oil threatens pristine Alaska, as Trump administration clears the way 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z They swapped the turf for feather grass and sedge, and added lavender, yarrow, cranesbill geranium, Pacific coast iris, and numerous varieties of sage and succulents. A patchy lawn in Tustin is reborn as a year-round, native garden 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Six years later, the site seethes with life, barely visible trails cutting through rampant sedge and mallow, cow parsley and burdock. Brexit is reverberating in British literature 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Their colors range from a combination of dark brown to a strawberry blonde to yellow - “sedge” and “deadgrass” are the official shades. Bark Bracket: Retrievers become top dogs, boosted by UMBC 2018-03-18T04:00:00Z Their colors range from a combination of dark brown to a strawberry blonde to yellow — “sedge” and “deadgrass” are the official shades. Bark Bracket: Retrievers become top dogs, boosted by UMBC 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z The arctic refuge is a vast region of tundra: mosses, sedges and shrubs underlain by permafrost. Here’s what oil drilling looks like in the Arctic refuge, 30 years later 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Throughout the garden, sweeps of ferns, beesia, grasses, sedges and liriope are planted en masse. A modern, sophisticated garden was inspired by ‘the feeling of Japan’ 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z One sedge species in Greenland is springing to growth 26 days earlier than it did a decade ago. Northern hemisphere sees in early spring due to global warming 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Timing varied from plant to plant, but one speedy sedge species — a flowering, grasslike herb — stirred a full 26 days earlier than it did a decade ago. For Some Arctic Plants, Spring Arrives Almost a Month Earlier 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Splendiferous mountain vistas of greensward and cliffs scaffold my dreams, drawn from memories of sheep pastures in Sicily and Greece, rich with textured sedges or tinted canyons, then bombastic skyscrapers, or Matisse’s Chapel. Feeling My Way Into Blindness 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Soft swales of sedges and a thickening tangle of twinberry and ninebark thrive under a canopy of willow and poplar. Seattle’s own urban swamp gets a boardwalk trail 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z Giant towering forms: Mount Rainier, the Olympics, a metallic sedge of orange cranes. As Seattle grows up, views can go away — and take real value with them 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z More than 1,000 new plant species were identified last year and there are about 5,500 known types of sedges. Eastern Illinois botanist gets a plant to call his own 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z The researchers infer that as the lake shrank, grasses and sedges started growing around it, followed by sagebrush, buttercups, birch and willow. How Did People Migrate to the Americas? Bison DNA Helps Chart the Way 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Its purpose is to restore native landscapes, such as marshlands, sedge meadows, prairies, oak savannas and open oak woodland communities. Seeding ministry aims to restore northern Indiana landscape 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z The larvae take two years to mature and subsist on sedges and grasses, while the adults sip nectar. New Butterfly Discovered in Alaska for First Time in 28 Years 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z In a 2013 study, Cao and his colleagues measured growth of the sedge species preferred by livestock in two scenarios: enclosed pastures and much larger patches of land jointly managed by up to 30 households. Trouble in Tibet 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z To neighbors who stroll along the sidewalk, the design's above-ground portion resembles a stone creek bed dotted with rushes, sedges and native ground covers. Imagine: Rain, rain, stored away 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Many of those at risk are found in the north and in upland areas, but there are also lowland species under threat including rare spring sedge, orange ladybirds and triangle hammock spiders. Growing threat to England's curlews from climate change - BBC News 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z If it doesn't drain, that much water can suffocate the plants and they will be overtaken by sedges and other species. Use It or Lose It Laws Worsen Western US Water Woes 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z And I think of 17th-century villagers who were at home here, who cut sedge and reed for thatching and dug peat for domestic fuel. The Living Beauty of Wicken Fen 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z This is particularly important in the case of the sedge species that dominate much of the Tibetan Plateau, and that are the preferred food of livestock. Trouble in Tibet 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Swamp-loving plants, like sedges and tussocks, are the fossil survivors, not delicate leaves from hardwood trees. What America's Forests Looked Like Before Europeans Arrived 2013-11-13T23:45:00.387Z The studies analyzed the tooth enamel of ancestors of humans and great apes to show early man gained a taste for grasses and sedges, grass-like plants with edged stems. New research points to turning point in human diet 2013-06-05T03:37:08Z Along the banks, the roots of weedy tamarisk shrubs guzzle even more water, and sedges grow in depressions — a sign of moisture pooling where it isn't needed. Use It or Lose It Laws Worsen Western US Water Woes 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Three members of the genus Australopithecus—close cousins of the famed Lucy—had a yen for grass and sedges, according to a new study published online today in the . Human Ancestors Were Grass Gourmands 2012-11-12T20:38:18Z Studies of pollen in lake sediments show that Kobresia and other dominant sedges emerged about 8,000 years ago, when early Tibetans began burning forests to convert them to grasslands for livestock3. Trouble in Tibet 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Over there was the shallow pool brimming with sedges and sphagnum mosses. Op-Ed Contributor: Mean Streets for Staten Island Mountain Mint 2012-08-15T01:23:16Z She found phytoliths from fruit, leaves, wood and bark, as well as from grasses or sedges that grow in tropical forests or shade, but not open savanna. Early Human Ate Like a Giraffe 2012-06-27T18:07:00Z We see clumps of woodland sedges as well, now bearing tiny triangular fruits favored by many songbirds. City Room: Spring Time: Under a Leafy Canopy, a Taste of Summer 2012-05-24T15:26:26Z These teeth of Australopithecus bahrelghazali from Chad suggest it ate grass roots and sedges. Human Ancestors Were Grass Gourmands 2012-11-12T20:38:18Z Then a house in Nun’s Lane was burnt and sedge had to be bought to thatch it. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z Whither does that clear brook flow, that hides itself in yonder sedge? Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z "I have seldom felt such a fool," he began upon a note of pompous reminiscence that whistled in his mustache like a wind through withered sedge on the margin of a December stream. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z A river intersects the plain, and its course is marked by sedges and tall reeds. The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople 2012-03-26T02:00:38.077Z That's the signature of a diet rich in grasses and sedges, such as reeds, grasses, and tuberous roots that would have grown around the floodplains and sub-basins of the ancient Lake Chad. Human Ancestors Were Grass Gourmands 2012-11-12T20:38:18Z Today there are very few species native to the land, other than several kinds of sedge and aquatic grass. The Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans Gives New Meaning to ?Urban Growth? 2012-03-22T13:27:22Z They had bound, by order of Cort�s, wreaths of sedge round their heads, that they might the more surely be distinguished from the Cholulans. William Hickling Prescott 2012-03-11T03:00:12.297Z Down in the valley where there are numerous pools, not only willows and osiers grew, but here and there were to be found sedges and rushes, cat’s-tail and a species of reed. Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian 2012-02-28T03:00:27.310Z It is really sedge finely split up, and dyed. Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z These marshes are flecked in proper season with most beautiful golden and blue and purple flowers, and fringed with handsome sedges. England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z The Fens afford plenty of sedge, turf, and reed; the want whereof will be found if their nature be altered. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z Carex, 693 the largest genus of the order, the sedges, is widely distributed in the temperate, alpine and arctic regions of both hemispheres, and is represented by 60 species in Britain. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z He engaged a man, and sent him out to cut sedges and rushes and cat’s-tail and reeds. Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian 2012-02-28T03:00:27.310Z Palm trees can be made of elder stems and larch or of the sedge grass. Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z Samemrumus lived at Tyre, and discovered the art of making huts out of reeds and sedge, while Usous invented clothing made of the skins of the beasts which he knew how to slay. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z It is covered down to the water with thick sedges and underwood, and where the water is stagnating, generates mosquitoes and fevers. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.880Z It's not a lake and not a pond—it's a broad, that's all you can say,—with reeds, and rushes, and sedges, and lovely water plants all along the shore. Robin's Rambles 2012-01-07T03:00:14.617Z Presently he could see the boat returning, with one figure only at the oars, and he knew that Putnam must be safely tucked away among the marshy sedges, at the other end of the lake. Dick Randall The Young Athlete 2012-01-04T03:00:45.467Z Very pretty flowers are found among the grasses, sedges and common weeds. Through a Microscope Something of the Science Together with many Curious Observations Indoor and Out and Directions for a Home-made Microscope. 2011-12-29T03:00:20.733Z All of these montane populations of the vagrans shrew are commonest in hydrosere communities, that is to say, streamsides and marshy areas where the predominant vegetation is grass, sedges, willows, and alders. Speciation of the Wandering Shrew 2011-12-22T03:00:30.143Z The punt followed the canals, cut at right angles; progress was slow, impeded by ice needles, that formed by the cold clustered on the sedges of the bank. Autumn Glory The Toilers of the Field 2011-12-11T03:00:11.417Z The bedding consists of thick layers of compacted stems and leaves of sedges and rushes collected from the banks of a nearby river. Scientists say ancient human bedding used for pest control 2011-12-09T15:43:15Z Like the rails, she has her paths and runways among the tall sedges and cat-tails, where not even a boy in rubber boots may safely follow. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z The nearer foreshores, fringed with rush and sedge and dark stretches of tamarisk, were peopled with Storks and Herons, Egrets, Spoonbills, Stilts, Avocets, and other waders. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z And he speaks of the Adirondack landscape with a certain wistfulness, waxing lyrical about conifers and sedges, long vistas and light on water, “peacefulness and oldness.” Fearing Climate Change?s Effects on the Adirondacks 2011-12-02T04:18:15Z Grasses and sedges are some of the "green things" that need but little encouragement. Text Books of Art Education, Book IV (of 7) 2011-11-29T03:00:14.593Z This is composed externally of the dead leaves of reeds and sedges, and lined with the feathery tops of reed. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z When a gunner routs a rail it reluctantly rises a few feet above the grasses, flies with much fluttering, trailing its legs after it, but quickly sinks in the sedges again. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z By creeping out to a rush-clad point we lay concealed between sedges and a thicket of briar, and here soon shot several of these ducks, as well as Mallard, Garganey, and another Gadwall or two. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z Both uredospores and teleutospores are formed on the sedge, and the latter live through the winter and produce the disease on the gooseberry in the succeeding year. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z Using a sheet of your tinted paper, make a brush drawing in color, from a growth of grass or sedge. Text Books of Art Education, Book IV (of 7) 2011-11-29T03:00:14.593Z Its food consists of water insects, molluscs, worms, and the seeds of grass and sedge. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z By day, this heron, like his big, blue cousin, might be mistaken for a stump or snag among the sedges and bushes by the waterside, so dark and still is he. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z Amidst umbrageous gloom the Night-Heron and Bittern dream away the hours of daylight, the former among the branches, the latter in thickest sedge. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z In cases where the disease proves troublesome the sedges in the neighbourhood should be destroyed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z Through marshes and sedge, with the waters of the Jordan in the heart of it, he forded the south arm of Lake Huleh and entered Itrurea. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z It builds its nest in swamps, among rushes and sedges, simply collecting a few grasses and roots into any convenient hole, and there it lays four eggs. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z In every slough where mallards, blue- and green-winged teal, widgeons, black duck and pintails settle down to rest in autumn, gunners wait concealed in the sedges. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z We were well sheltered by a fringe of sedges, and presently the strangers entered a small reed-margined bight, swimming very deep, only their turtle-shaped backs and heavy heads in sight. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z The Aran isles contain many rare plants; but, owing to the absence of turf bogs and scarcity of damp ground, there are neither marshy nor heathy plants, nor sedges, nor rushes. The South Isles of Aran 2011-10-26T02:00:28.363Z Three sides 'tis banked with stones aslant, And down the fourth the rushes grow, And yellow sedge fringing the edge With lengthen'd image all arow. The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges 2011-10-22T02:00:26.887Z In April and May they make their simple preparations for laying their eggs by trampling down the broken tops of reeds and sedges, and so forming a slight concavity. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z On the floor are planted grasses, sedges, and miniature bushes, made of tin or zinc and then dipped in a bucket of green paint. Birds and Man 2011-10-20T02:00:25.513Z Twenty winters ago, in the marshes below Ovar, in Portugal, my dog Nilo came to a "point" near a clump of thick sedges. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z They ran together towards it over the slippery sedge, and up the still more slippery turf. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z One beaver meadow was studied, this meadow including areas of grasses and of sedges, traversed by ditches, small mud-flats covered with low rushes, and alder thickets. Notes on the Mammals of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan, 1920 Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Number 109 2011-10-15T02:00:26.690Z The sedge by the river was silvered over by heavy rime and the frosted flag rushes seemed to cut like swords. A Maid at King Alfred?s Court 2011-09-13T02:00:30.520Z It was a long and irksome paddle, what with floating trees we encountered and the stream over its banks and washing us into sedge and brush and rafts of weed in the darkness. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z The impossibility of obtaining a good shot by fair means being demonstrated, as a final resource we laid up the punt among the sedges, at a point where the fowl were wont to congregate. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z For the May's i' full bloom i' the hedges And the laverock's aloft i' the blue, An' the south wind sings low i' the sedges, By haughs that are silvery wi' dew. Fly Fishing in Wonderland 2011-09-01T02:00:22.230Z The only place where any considerable growth of sedges was noted at the edge of the water was along the lower course of Merriweather River, just before it enters Gogebic Lake. Notes on the Mammals of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan, 1920 Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Number 109 2011-10-15T02:00:26.690Z Nests are placed on the ground surface, in pasture grasses, marsh grasses, cattail, sedge, and smartweed. The Breeding Birds of Kansas 2011-08-27T02:00:24.797Z The boat nosed in between the marsh-grasses and tall sedge, and I could not see it clearly any more. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z Next moment the insignificant point developed into a huge brown bird—more and more expanses of brown feathers emerged from the sedge till a pair of heavy green hanging legs wound up the procession. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z The sedges came also, and fringed the marsh with a border of green. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z Here there are considerable areas of sedges partially submerged by the water. Notes on the Mammals of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan, 1920 Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Number 109 2011-10-15T02:00:26.690Z Nests are placed on the ground surface, in cover of grasses, cattail and sedges. The Breeding Birds of Kansas 2011-08-27T02:00:24.797Z I found Pan crouched by the river's edge, His hoofed feet hid by the rushy sedge, And I listened his plaint. The Dales of Arcady 2011-08-16T02:00:42.740Z But the blackbird, king of hedgerows— Hedgerows to my memory dear— By the brook, where rush and sedge grows, Sang his liquid love-notes clear. Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z The sedges and reeds rustled in the light breeze; and there was Odo. World's End A Story in Three Books 2011-08-16T02:00:47.740Z In these places the cat-tail is dominant, though numerous sedges occur, and there is some sphagnum growing on the fallen logs and along the shore. Notes on the Mammals of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan, 1920 Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Number 109 2011-10-15T02:00:26.690Z Nests are placed within a few feet of water in cattail, rush, sedge, and willow. The Breeding Birds of Kansas 2011-08-27T02:00:24.797Z He recognised the sedges where he and Mark had wandered on his left, and found that he was rapidly coming near the two islands. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z The eggs are laid chiefly on grasses and probably at times upon the grass-like sedges. Butterflies Worth Knowing 2011-08-10T02:00:15.887Z Wild sarsaparilla, wild oats, Solomon's seal and a host of understory plants die off; grass-like species such as Pennsylvania sedge take over. The Real Story of Globalization 2011-08-05T23:59:24Z At the upper border of the strip of muddy shore is a thick growth of sedges, meeting the muddy shore at a fairly sharp line. Notes on the Mammals of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan, 1920 Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Number 109 2011-10-15T02:00:26.690Z Nests are placed in cattails and sedges one to two and one-half feet high. The Breeding Birds of Kansas 2011-08-27T02:00:24.797Z Certainly they could hear none, even the brook-sparrows in the sedges by the New Sea were quiet. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z They lay their small eggs upon or near a species of sedge which is abundant on these alpine summits. Butterflies Worth Knowing 2011-08-10T02:00:15.887Z A few sedges here and there, and that peculiar whitened appearance left when water has passed over vegetation, betoken that once there was a stream. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z The borders of the ditches are muddy and the banks are from 6 to 18 inches high; in places the ditch borders are closely encroached upon by the tall sedges of the adjacent meadow. Notes on the Mammals of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan, 1920 Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Number 109 2011-10-15T02:00:26.690Z Foxes like a close warm undergrowth, such as furze, sedges when the ground is dry, the underwood that springs up between the ash-stoles. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z “It’s the serpent, you know; he’s a hundred feet long; he’s come over from the Unknown Island, and he’s waiting in these sedges somewhere to catch something; the birds are afraid to sing.” Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z About two weeks later the eggs hatch into sluggish little caterpillars which feed upon the sedge leaves, apparently eating only at night and hiding in crevices between stones by day. Butterflies Worth Knowing 2011-08-10T02:00:15.887Z As summer wanes you see and hear him less frequently, but he is still your comrade of the marshes, occasionally announcing his presence with a resonant twang and a jerky splash among the sedges. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z A few grasses and some low herbs occur sparingly among the sedges. Notes on the Mammals of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan, 1920 Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Number 109 2011-10-15T02:00:26.690Z There is the subtle and picturesque devil fish, who hides himself in the sedge and opens his mouth like a railway tunnel. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z There were no sedges here, nothing but short grasses and such herbage as grows under the perpetual shade of ash-poles, and they could run easily. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z The women, girls, old men and boys raised what they could, but many fields, once lush with corn, tobacco, sugar cane and other crops, now lay barren save for sedge and pine seedling. The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People 2011-07-17T02:00:38.770Z We followed the road through the broom sedge across the field until we drew up at the rusty iron gate of the cottage. The Haunted Homestead A Novel 2011-07-13T02:00:22.920Z The habitat had not been burned over and the ground is covered with a thick mat of the decaying leaves and stems of the sedges and grasses. Notes on the Mammals of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan, 1920 Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Number 109 2011-10-15T02:00:26.690Z If people had only eyes to see, there are devil fish about in the sedges of daily life—political, clerical, and social. Bygones Worth Remembering, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:17.663Z After standing still a minute to recover themselves they turned to the right and went towards the sedges. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z They climb through oozy weeds and moss; They swarm its rotting sides and toss Their firefly torches o'er its edge Or hang them in the tangled sedge. Kentucky Poems 2011-07-11T02:00:07.060Z When the grey of the eastern sky turns pink, Through the silver sedge at the pool's low brink The little lone field-mouse creeps down to drink. The Ballad of the Quest 2011-07-06T02:00:44.593Z At the south end of the beaver meadow willows and alders are invading the sedges in very wet ground. Notes on the Mammals of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan, 1920 Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Number 109 2011-10-15T02:00:26.690Z He had come to this lonely valley down which the yet-unpolluted Tanqua stream flowed through its waving sedges,—far beyond the camp of the boldest pioneer. A Vendetta of the Desert 2011-07-05T02:00:32.510Z The New Sea, receding, had left a long winding pool in a hollow which shut them off from getting to the path in the sedges unless by returning the weary way they had come. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z There were islets upon which grew reeds, sedges, and canes, surmounted by groups of caricas, and laurel-magnolias, the exogenous trees overtopped by the tall, feathery palm. The White Squaw 2011-07-05T02:00:26.437Z Like the sedges at the last Will it die of too much song? Eight Harvard Poets 2011-06-26T02:00:08.617Z This species was found only in or near tall sedges growing in moist or marshy situations. Notes on the Mammals of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan, 1920 Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Number 109 2011-10-15T02:00:26.690Z There were copious marks of blood on the sand, and among the sedges on the side of the road we found a shaska, or Circassian sabre, which had been dropped no doubt by the enemy. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z They travelled on some way and found the ground almost level and so thick with sedges and grass and rushes that they walked in a forest of green up to their waists. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z A sedge warbler looked on with his tiny head on one side. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z Though the sedge is withered from the lake, Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z Four of these were taken in tall sedges, one in grass alongside the sedges, and one in sphagnum between the sedges and the lake. Notes on the Mammals of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan, 1920 Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Number 109 2011-10-15T02:00:26.690Z The robbers, having had some hours' start, had already reached the sedges of the Caspian. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z So they returned to the firm ground and walked on among the sedges and rushes. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Suddenly the willows sparkled with diamonds, the grey river became a sheet of silver, the sedge warbler fluted his hymeneal note, and other warblers joined in the chorus. The Soul of Susan Yellam 2011-06-16T02:00:19.090Z And Sganarelle, with laughter, claimed his pledge; Don Luis, with trembling finger in the air, Showed to the souls who wandered in the sedge The evil son who scorned his hoary hair. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z The first specimen taken was trapped eight feet from a tiny stream which flowed through the marshy sedges. Notes on the Mammals of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan, 1920 Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Number 109 2011-10-15T02:00:26.690Z Next Camus, reverend sire, went footing slow— His mantle hairy and his bonnet sedge, Inwrought with figures dim, and on the edge Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z The monotony, too, was oppressive, nothing but sedges, flags, and rushes, sedges and horsetails, and they did not seem to get much farther after all their walking. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z It went straight into the end of the other arm of the Y and to the astonishment of all the hunters apparently went out again and across a sedge field toward the hills. Sons and Fathers 2011-05-16T02:00:19.893Z Stretched on the sedges and sheltered from the gale, our pleasure is so much the greater that we feel our escape from a great peril. Explorers and Travellers 2011-05-11T02:00:17.627Z A juvenile was trapped July 26 on top a log in the tall sedges at Mud Lake. Notes on the Mammals of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan, 1920 Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Number 109 2011-10-15T02:00:26.690Z Chance lights stole from the sedge to the grassy banks, from the creek by sweet tumbled grasses to the deserted old grange. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z Underfoot there was a layer of the dead sedges of last year which gave beneath their weight, and the ground itself was formed of the roots of sedges and other plants. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z The sedge grass must have thrown him down when he started to wade. Ethel Morton at Chautauqua 2011-05-04T02:00:16.097Z The land rose somewhat, the sedge gave way first to cane and willows, and later to richly foliaged trees with graceful festoons pleasing to the eye 61 and fruitful of promise in the coming autumn. Explorers and Travellers 2011-05-11T02:00:17.627Z The log bridged over a particularly wet part of the marshy sedges and was at the edge of the hardwood forest. Notes on the Mammals of Gogebic and Ontonagon Counties, Michigan, 1920 Occasional Papers of the Museum of Zoology, Number 109 2011-10-15T02:00:26.690Z She sometimes spent a few hours among the sedges and shady chestnut-trees. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z Even Bevis at last agreed that it was not possible, they must go back to the path in the sedges on their right. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z "You let me alone, Ethel Blue," he whispered savagely, and then she lost sight of the water and the sedge grass and her weary arms fell at her sides. Ethel Morton at Chautauqua 2011-05-04T02:00:16.097Z He saw the city "across the sedge and mire," when they could only see her on the map. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z It was the Club that decorated the house with brown sedges and stalks of upstanding tawny corn and vines of bittersweet. Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship 2011-05-03T02:00:15.220Z He, meanwhile, gathered only two small birds; the rest that came in his way either escaped or fell out of reach among the sedges. True and Other Stories 2011-04-26T02:00:27.117Z Far away, beyond the sedges and the reeds, there was a broad strip of clear water, and across it the island of Serendib. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z The night wind sighs in the sedge—the frogs sing by the Marshy Mere. Japanese Fairy Tales 2011-04-15T02:00:14.617Z I have seen one from the South that had some kind of coarse reed or sedge woven into it, giving it an open work appearance, like a basket. Wake-Robin 2011-04-01T02:00:36.187Z The sedge has withered from the Lake And no birds sing! Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z I think he is whistling to his wife, who hunts crickets in the broom sedge.” Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant 2011-03-28T02:00:27.040Z There was no shadow, and after a while they wearied of stepping through the sedges, sinking a little at every step, which much increases the labour of walking. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z She came, gliding in and out of the bulrush and the sedge. Japanese Fairy Tales 2011-04-15T02:00:14.617Z And as before rang out the falconer’s hooha-ha-ha-ha! and shrill whistle, as a heron rose up from the sedge; again a white heron, the great egret! No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z He went away into a secluded corner of the churchyard, a shadowy corner, where there was an angle in the old wall, below which the river crept in and out among the sedges. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z Us take boat, go 'long bayou, find nesties in sedge grass. Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 2011-02-25T03:01:02.913Z “Let’s go back to the path in the sedges,” said Mark. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z All the night long the frogs sang by the Marshy Mere and the wind sighed in the sedges. Japanese Fairy Tales 2011-04-15T02:00:14.617Z There was an entourage of attendants, the falconer with his helps, mounted grooms, and dogs quartering the sedge—in short, a complete hawking party from Hollymead House. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z Stepping among the sedges, where single stalks shuddered in the cold water, Geoffrey looked for the ripple which would indicate a place of crossing. The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec 2011-02-24T03:01:05.143Z Unloving voices answered each other in hoarse whispers, like a hot, dry wind through the crisp and shrivelled sedges of a dried-up watercourse. The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables 2011-02-23T03:00:29.860Z Bevis wanted to explore the Waste, and especially to look at the great grey boulder, and so they went on and landed among the sedges. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z ‘I was born of the sedges,’ replied the white man, ‘and will bear thee company.’ Folk-Lore and Legends: Oriental 2011-02-22T03:00:06.247Z But won’t you wait till the dogs have finished beating the sedge?” No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z Long grass and sedges cover the ground, and a good many patches of reeds give shelter. Two Years in Oregon 2011-02-16T03:00:33.293Z The broad, marshy valley is thickly studded with water reeds and sedges. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z They went down the marshy level to the bank, and along it to the beds of sedges, where, on the verge of the sea, they had hidden the catamarans. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Danger deterred her not from approaching it again and again, each time receiving a fresh stab from that terrible stick, until, with a long-drawn sigh, she expired among the sedge. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z The vestiture that remains is a watery sedge, and it is only by garnering every handful of earth that the tenants can attain cultivation even in the cooms. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z At each of these the two men, now revealed in a birch canoe, halted for a little space, and then, tying a knot in the nearest tuft of sedge, passed on to the next. A Hero of Ticonderoga 2011-01-27T03:00:45.450Z Sparrow barely escaped by hiding in the sedge near the river. Verotchka's Tales 2011-01-24T03:00:16.880Z In a willow stole or blue gum Mark found the nest of a sedge bird, but empty, the young birds hatched long since. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z It was not until the sedges grew brittle on the river edges and the grasses withered that November sent forth its true harbingers of winter—small fluttering white flakes that covered the ground sparsely. Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z The Wild Ducks who nested in the sedges, were quite willing that the young Muskrats should play with their children, and the Mud Hens were not afraid of them. Among the Pond People 2011-01-21T03:00:13.507Z And you sold two hundred acres, including the point, the harbor, and a good deal of the sedges, for the moderate modicum of one hundred and ten thousand, cash. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z But," said the witch, finishing her story, "if you are like the dove, I'm not like the bird of the sedges; and Vranic would find me rather tough to eat me up. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z The ground was so matted with vegetation that their feet never touched the earth at all, they trampled on grasses, rushes, meadowsweet, and triangular fluted carex sedges. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z On examining their dwelling I found it a vaulted tunnel made of clay and mud, and thickly lined with sedges, rushes, and water-lily leaves. The Swiss Family Robinson or, Adventures on a Desert Island 2011-01-03T03:01:03.473Z One side has King David dancing before the ark; the other, "Cytherea hid in sedges." William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale 2011-01-01T03:00:20.833Z The hog-snout's swollen corpse, with belly white, I find upon the footway through the sedge, Trodden by tramps along the water's edge. The Two Twilights 2010-12-25T03:00:12.393Z The bird that has built her nest by the sedges near the river told it me.' The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z Presently they came on a small pool surrounded with sedges—a black-headed bunting watched them from a branch opposite. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z He had purposely selected a way that took them across many of young Whitmarsh’s ill-stocked fields, fields in which sedge and charlock wrote an indictment of neglected drains and half-hearted tillage. Max Carrados 2010-12-24T03:00:32.117Z They were up to their bellies browsing on a green sedge—that grew luxuriantly in the wet marshy soil—no doubt the cause of their being so congregated. The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:12:24.303Z Then this salt stream, now winter bound, Fled softly through the sedge, Retreating from the sparkling Sound; And there along its edge We strolled, and marked the far-off sloops, And watched the cattle graze. The Two Twilights 2010-12-25T03:00:12.393Z "Aleksij, rest can always be found within the waters of the Neva; its bed is as soft as down, whilst the breeze blowing in the sedges sings such a soft lullaby." The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z They watched the sedges a long time, but saw nothing. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Indians appeared from everywhere—from tree-branches, grass, sedge, in many cases only to fall before the steady rain of bullets. Adventures Among the Red Indians Romantic Incidents and Perils Amongst the Indians of North and South America 2010-12-20T17:12:20.420Z Shrubs are expanding into the north, displacing the sedge tundra. A Caribou-bou in the Warming Arctic 2010-06-23T20:59:00Z "Do you hear the ripple of the water among the sedges?" she whispered. A Blot on the Scutcheon Kennedy’s note on the passage.212.‘Though all your land is choked with barren stones or covered with marsh and sedge.’—P.213.‘And larger shadows are falling from the lofty mountains.’ The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil From Bamboo Island, Bevis poled round to five or six banks covered with sedges, and Mark had another shot, but this time, perhaps a little too confident, he missed altogether. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Alone on the Halewitz side a fantastic mass of sedge and reeds from time to time loomed out through the grey vapour. The Undying Past How Llew Took Arms The shoes went back immediately to sedges and seaweed again, and Arianrod, angry at being tricked, laid a new curse on the boy. Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race But she had not dared to dream too tangibly of that vague, intuitive knowledge till they stood together in the moonlight and listened to the faint lapping of water amongst the sedges. A Blot on the Scutcheon Such pasturage has been established by heavy continuous grazing, under which conditions the broom sedge and wire grass are exterminated, while the creeping carpet grass comes in and persists. Florida: An Ideal Cattle State The current slowly drifted the raft out into the bay, and then they took their poles, and returned along the channel between the reeds and sedge banks. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z The boat began slowly to break through the reeds and sedges, and to drift up the stream. The Undying Past Remarks.—The northern bog lemming is evidently not generally distributed along the Alaska Highway but may be locally numerous in cover of grass and sedge especially in marsh and bog habitat. Mammals taken Along the Alaska Highway The wheels sank deep into the boggy road that ran between withered reeds and sedge. The Wish A Novel In the piney woods the natural pasturage is composed mainly of broom sedge and wire grasses. Florida: An Ideal Cattle State The moorhen doubled into the bamboos and sedges, but they were so thick they hindered her progress, and Pan snapped her up in a moment. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z The shore was encircled by a dense border of sedges, whose brown tops, whenever a faint breeze blew, waved gently to and fro as though stirred by their own weight. The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History At Deadman Lake, Alaska, one Synaptomys was taken in heavy sedge bordering a small pond. Mammals taken Along the Alaska Highway In this century the small valley of marsh and sedge was still the possession of the community. Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. In the cave, in the centre, was music, and the twelve water-nymphs, dressed in white silk with green sedges, so cunningly stitched on them, that nothing else could be seen. Rambles in an Old City comprising antiquarian, historical, biographical and political associations The raft was poled round and out to Pearl Island, on which no sedges grew, nor were there any within seventy or eighty yards. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z One of the former paused to graze in a green-sprouting sedge bog. The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin And here were sedge and reeds, all fading brown and yellow, and at many places, wild fowl, disturbed at their coming, would spring up with loud and noisy splashings from the entangled water. The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions And where the plants are lowly—e.g., grasses and sedges, and the plantains—the flowers are more or less raised up on the haulm. Springtime and Other Essays The herbage also is sparse and, though in a few places there is a considerable growth of ferns, grasses, and sedges, and of other herbs, there are also many bare areas. The Mammals of Warren Woods, Berrien County, Michigan Occasional Paper of the Museum of Zoology, Number 86 “Out to Pearl Island and swim there: there are no sedges there.” Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z On the Barren Grounds proper they frequent the open summits and slopes of the ridges, the dwarf birch thickets, the sedge bogs, and the peat bogs. The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin For the most part the pools were surrounded and studded with sedges, which concealed them from passers-by. A Traitor's Wooing These Sikhs—eight in number—were riding along the edge of the river, when they were met by a fusillade from a number of the enemy concealed amongst sedges on the opposite bank. The Unveiling of Lhasa A large ravine south of the river had been cleared of trees evidently several years previously, and it has now grown up mostly to sedges, grass, and iris in its more moist parts. The Mammals of Warren Woods, Berrien County, Michigan Occasional Paper of the Museum of Zoology, Number 86 Returning to the shore, they recollected a large bed of sedges and reed-grass a little way back, and going there Bevis shot an arrow into it. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z During the warmer months, from June to September, the local Caribou seemed to me to be feeding very largely on the higher vegetation, such as willow, dwarf birch, alder, and sedges. The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin Mr. Bushnell filled his hat with water, and sprinkled the pale face in the sedge. The Only Woman in the Town And Other Tales of the American Revolution A tribe of plants answering to the English sedges; they are distinguished from grasses by their stems being solid, and generally triangular, instead of being hollow and round. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology With the sedges there are a few grasses, and the ground is sometimes covered by a moss, but the sedges are by far the most abundant plant. The Mammals of Warren Woods, Berrien County, Michigan Occasional Paper of the Museum of Zoology, Number 86 He seized the spaniel by his shaggy neck, lifted and hurled him by main force a few yards crash among the sedges. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z She scarcely breathed her consent, and the canoe tore the growing sedge like satin as it bumped against the slope of the bank. Plashers Mead A Novel “Sakes alive!” said poor Anna, toiling from sedge bog to sedge bog with her burden of “bushes” and striving to hide her face from the mosquitoes as she went. The Only Woman in the Town And Other Tales of the American Revolution It was high tide, the myriad little channels were full, the whole marsh was afloat; the breeze fanning their faces had a strong salty odor, the sedges along shore were stiff with brine. East Angels Burrows of the thirteen-striped ground squirrel were numerous in the sedges. The Mammals of Warren Woods, Berrien County, Michigan Occasional Paper of the Museum of Zoology, Number 86 They found the channel without difficulty, the raft grounded among the sedges, and they stepped out, the first time they had landed on the mainland. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z See! he crouches down in the sedge, By the water's edge, Making the startled sycamore boughs to quiver! Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 The sword leaves of the pubescent reed and sedge slashed and cut their bodies as though razors had been lightly drawn across them, and the blood streamed down their chests and limbs. My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave A Story of Central Africa For miles extends a grassy plain like a meadow, the sedges entirely covering the two to four feet of water which would otherwise give it the appearance of a great lake. The West Indies and the Spanish Main The rest of the young scattered into the sedge while the old ones, with threatening growls, turned upon the intruders. The Golden Age in Transylvania The roof was to be covered with brushwood to some thickness, and then thatched over that with sedges and reed-grass. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z And as the Mulgar travellers passed him by, he wound his long, two-fingered trunk round Nod's belly, shook him softly, and lifted him high above the sedge into the air. The Three Mulla-mulgars For aught we know, the fields might be just as fruitful, if they put forth only a gray and dingy sedge. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 Its head, drawn flat back between the high shoulders, came about ten inches above the tops of the sedge. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life In order to get a better aim the knight had dropped on one knee, and shot through the sedges at the beast just at the moment when he raised his head. The Golden Age in Transylvania The muzzle almost, but not quite, protruded through the sedges, and they sat down to wait on some of the dry grasses they had reaped, but did not carry, not requiring all they had cut. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Along its banks grew giant sedge, stiff and grey with frost like meal. The Three Mulla-mulgars Columbine and larkspur grow on the dryer edges of the meadows, with a tall handsome lupine standing waist-deep in long grasses and sedges. My First Summer in the Sierra "There is a quiet little stream, That runs into the moat, Where tall green sedges spread their leaves And water lilies float." Puss Junior and Robinson Crusoe The party halted in an especially thick clump of sedges. The Thing in the Attic The ground so near the edge was soft and yielding, and this dry hay of sedge and flag better to sit on. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z And all in a moment the Water-midden was there rocking on the dark green water beneath the arching sedge. The Three Mulla-mulgars Calm, beautiful, and nearly silent, it glides with stately gestures, a dense growth of the slender two-leaved pine along its banks, and a fringe of willow, purple spirea, sedges, daisies, lilies, and columbines. My First Summer in the Sierra Ashore a plank walk crossed first a breadth of sedge marsh and then penetrated a tumbled waste of dunes. The Destroying Angel Luckily, on the higher ground there was much more cover from low-growing shrubs and trees—palmetto, sassafras, several kinds of laurel, magnolia, and a great many sedges. The Thing in the Attic For a sail they meant to use the rug which was now hung up for an awning, and to put up a roof thatched with sedges in its place. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Only the dark water murmured in its stony channel, and the faint night-wind rustled in the sedge. The Three Mulla-mulgars Found a species of sedge in flower within eight or ten feet of a snow-bank. My First Summer in the Sierra Indian scouts hung on the watch among the sedge of the river bank. The Story of the Trapper Honath peered dubiously out from under the sedges at the still distant escarpments. The Thing in the Attic “In the sedges on the shore there,” pointing across the weeds. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Nod watched his brother pushing his way down through the sedge and trailing Samarak. The Three Mulla-mulgars Here is another fine meadow embosomed in the woods, with a deep, clear stream gliding through it, its banks rounded and beveled with a thatch of dipping sedges. My First Summer in the Sierra From the western end of the lake, where it ran into a stretch of marshy ground densely overgrown by rushes, and meadows with sedges waving in the wind, they marched toward the east. A Captive of the Roman Eagles They made a hilarious bunch as they chugged upstream past the straggling fishing-village, under the bridge, and on between the low banks of sedge and tough water-growth that lined the little river. Under Boy Scout Colors Then they went to the shore at the uttermost southern extremity and sent Pan into the sedges. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z The nest is a large mass of flags, reeds or sedge, piled together among rushes in the water or on the margin, and not unfrequently contains as many as ten eggs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" How wonderful must be the temper of the elastic leaves of grasses and sedges to make curves so perfect and fine. My First Summer in the Sierra To-day, as there was still on the ground the snow of early spring, he wore shoes, but it was cold work plashing about in those slimy pools and the slippery mud among the sedges. Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North The prow turned to the north, and the ship cleaved the amorous waves as if on pinions, The sighing sedge ceased its murmur, as it glides gently to the shore. Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. The trail went straight through sedges next, these were trampled flat; then as the sedges grew wider apart they gradually lost it in the thin, short grass. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z The brooks do not rush down in foaming cataracts, through deep and dark clefts, but glide, still and clear, among sedge and underwood. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 In going through the overflowed savannas which have all a communication with the river, you p. 48may often see a dozen or two of them sporting among the sedges before you. Wanderings in South America The young fellow was just in from a sail, having been down to the sedge land with his gun, but he would go again. The House of Fulfilment Low down in the hollow is a marshy spot, sedge-grown, and in the sedge lie yellow leaves of willow already fallen. The Hills and the Vale You thought you saw something move in the sedges on Sunday.” Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Everything must be in sight and accessible to the housewife’s little sedge broom. Our Southern Highlanders Next, Camus, reverend sire, went footing slow, His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge, Inwrought with figures dim, and on the edge 105 Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe. Minor Poems by Milton “And this is why I sojourn here, Alone and palely loitering; Though the sedge is withered from the lake, And no birds sing.” Life of John Keats Stand where you can see the brook, not too near, but so as to see it through a fringe of sedges and willows. The Hills and the Vale “There are reeds and sedges everywhere,” said Mark. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z "The description of a desert island among the sedges." Eyes Like the Sea And nearer to the river's trembling edge There grew broad flag-flowers, purple prankt with white, And starry river buds among the sedge. Language of Flowers Just beyond, in a border of sedge and rushes, a lake lay, a mirror to the sky. Mary Magdalen In the sedges, however, the first young shoots are thrusting up, and the reeds have started slender green stalks tipped with the first leaves. The Hills and the Vale “We shall never hunt him out of all these sedges; I think we had better set a trap for him.” Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z She would give me clothes that had already been worn by her sons, and in turn I would bring broom straw from the sedges, with which she made her brooms. The Upward Path A Reader For Colored Children “I heard one splashing in the sedges as I came along in the canoe.” Wyn's Camping Days or, The Outing of the Go-Ahead Club I got the square huge net of our country, and set it in the water as our habit is, and watched in the sedges from dawn to eve. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. And you sold two hundred acres, including the point, the harbour, and a good deal of the sedges, for the moderate modicum of one hundred and ten thousand, cash. The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts From the sedges she had watched them go to the island in the Pinta so many times that she was certain that was the place where they were. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z The sedge, giving up all hope of being moistened by the salt waves, had died in great circles, which looked like mats of gray hair on some pre-Adamite monster’s buried head. Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 The specimens from Prater Canyon were trapped in the grasses and sedges of the meadow comprising the floor of the canyon. Mammals of Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado There were no gates: the sedges of the low lands went along the front of the great pile, almost touching it. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. Next came low, flat meadows of sedge, over which the tide oozed slowly, and where flocks of wild ducks, scared from their feeding-ground, rose by scores, and went flapping off seaward in long, black lines. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 They covered the roof two feet thick with brushwood, sedges, and reed-grass, which they considered enough to keep out any ordinary shower. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z The genus Cyperus includes a number of economic plants, among them the Chinese matting sedge. Philippine Mats Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 Microtus montanus was the only other species taken in the mouse traps in the sedge and grass. Mammals of Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado 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 Camp was made in the sedge grass on Bogue Sound, just as they had figured on, and after supper had been disposed of, a council of war called. Motor Boat Boys Down the Coast or Through Storm and Stress to Florida As they approached the other end of the island, where the ground was low and thick with reed-grass and sedges, they moved still more gently. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Sometimes it is called tayoc-tayoc in confusion with the smaller sedge more properly known by that name, which much resembles tikug. Philippine Mats Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 There are rolling stones in every path, And rocks with jagged edges, Which, if we gently touch, may turn To flowers and bending sedges. Happy Days for Boys and Girls All the little crazy brooks, where love and sorrow run Crowned with sedge and singing wild, Like a sky-lark—or a child!— The Lord of Misrule And Other Poems The fish rose best to a gray-winged sedge fly, when thrown high over the water and falling slowly and softly near the reeds. A Danish Parsonage Bevis stooped and followed, and there they set up the gun on the rest, hidden behind the fringe of sedges and reed-grass they had left when cutting them for the roof. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z It does not scatter quickly, for, while the roots will grow if transplanted, the sedge is mostly propagated by seeds and these are distributed principally by water and not by wind. Philippine Mats Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 If you watch the different kinds of grasses, sedges, and rushes, which have such tiny flowers that you can scarcely see them, you will find that no insects visit them. Eighth Reader The nest is large and rudely made of sedges and coarse grasses, seldom lined with down or feathers. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 1 July 1897 There were places of sedge and scented rush, amidst which were sapphire mists of forget-me-not for long stretches, skirmishing commandoes of yellow iris and wide wastes of floating water-lilies. The Passionate Friends Restless as they were, they sat still, and took the greatest care in slightly changing their positions for ease not to rustle the dry sedges. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z Philippine mat straws can be divided into three classes—palm straws, pandan straws, and straws obtained from sedges. Philippine Mats Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 The reason of this is that grasses, sedges, rushes, and oak trees have a great deal of pollen dust. Eighth Reader Like reeds here and there, the tall masts bare Upspring: as on the edge Of a lawn smooth-shaven, around the haven The shipping grows like sedge. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 Again she plunged forward, broke through the tangled sedges, and trampled down the spicy peppermint, till she reached firm land again. A Noble Woman It was two hundred yards to the sedges on the bank where they had landed that night. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z This plant, F. diphylla, one of the most widely distributed of all sedges, is found at all altitudes up to 2,000 meters throughout the warm regions of the world. Philippine Mats Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 Nest of wet sedge stalks and rubbish placed in a bunch of standing sedge in shallow water; at least five thousand birds in rookery. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs. The island seemed absolutely treeless, covered only with sedge and shingle and grass. Pioneers of the Pacific Coast A Chronicle of Sea Rovers and Fur Hunters The fields were shaggy with ragweed and dead whitetop and yellow sedge. Dwellers in the Hills We could bring the catamaran up in the boat, and leave it in the sedges there ready.” Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z VI, No. 2, Section C of the Journal of Science, states that this sedge also grows on the eastern side of Luzon. Philippine Mats Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 Into some deep hoof-prints the water was still oozing, while from others the trodden stems of sedge were slowly struggling upright. The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories There seemed no place to escape to and Bucks, creeping through the sedge grass, got back to his key and called the despatcher. The Mountain Divide The sun peeping through his gateway in the east gilded the tops of the brown sedge and turned the grass into a sea of gold. Dwellers in the Hills “There’s a coot; he’s gone into the sedges.” Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z In all places except where palms, like the buri or sedges occur, they yield the most suitable and most easily prepared mat material. Philippine Mats Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 These he presently found in abundance, along between grass and sedge. The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories Along the entire surface of the notorious moor—and its extent was considerable—there appeared a singularly-coloured sedge. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 I noticed a wisp of dry sedge bloom clinging to the man's shoulder,—a flimsy detail of the great picture. Dwellers in the Hills “The sedges are very thick that side,” said Bevis, pointing to the eastern shore where they had had such a struggle through them. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z The best mat straws of China and Japan are produced from cultivated sedges. Philippine Mats Philippine Craftsman Reprint Series No. 1 He looked at the rocks and the sky, and down among the reeds and sedges and alders by the side of the brook, but he could find no one. Boys and Girls Bookshelf (Vol 2 of 17) Folk-Lore, Fables, And Fairy Tales At last the Hero and the Maid safe o'er the watery way He leaveth on the ugly mire and sedge of sorry grey. The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse And 21 Enda could hardly believe his eyes, as he saw it sailing across the lake, until it was lost in the sedges growing by the shore. Irish Fairy Tales It wound round a bank grown with sedges, and then led straight into a broader and open channel, the same they had come down in the boat. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z In front, the road ran across a marsh, between deep ditches where tall sedges grew. Partners of the Out-Trail A film Of ice lay brittle on the shallows: dark And swift the central current rushed: the wind Sighed through the tawny sedge. Legends of the Saxon Saints 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 As she spoke a hideous head, with immense, round, bulging eyes and long, beak-like mouth arose over the sedge tops on a long, swaying neck and stared at them fixedly. In the Morning of Time Presently Mark, who was nearest the standing sedges, leaned forward and moved the gun, Bevis glanced over his shoulder and saw a young wild duck among the weeds by the shoal. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z It ran out of an arched recess into a shallow pool, fringed with sedge, and filled with white-flowered cresses and forget-me-not. Beside Still Waters Mile on mile Now song was heard, now bugle horn that died Gradual 'mid sedge and reed. Legends of the Saxon Saints The nest was a mere shallow pile of dead leaves and twigs and dry sedges, scraped carelessly together. The Backwoodsmen In places are miles of grassy slopes and miniature meadows, covered with coarse sedges and bright tender flowers. Wild Life on the Rockies At sunset from the shadowed sedge Of lonely lake, among the reeds, He lifts his brazen-throated call, And the listening cat with teeth at edge With famine hears and heeds. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse The new rushes were beginning to fringe the edges of the tiny lake, but the winter sedge stood pale and sere, and filled the air with a dry rustling. Beside Still Waters I was man, not a boy, and I loved as man loves When the forces of life are in him full-flooded As rivers in meadows, when they flow to the sedges. The Busted Ex-Texan and Other Stories But to the center of its pulpy gorge the greedy slough was heaving, and sullenly grinding its weltering jaws among the flags and sedges. The Speaker, No. 5: Volume II, Issue 1 December, 1906. Around it are mossy spaces, beds of sedge, and scattered alpine flowers, which soften a little the fierce aspect of this impressive scene. Wild Life on the Rockies Do you know the vine that climbs above the sedge to whisper on the wind "There are cocoanuts in my basement"? Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Apple, crab, chestnut, cypress, hazel, oats, onion, love-in-idleness, mustard, parsley, roses, rush, sedges, walnut. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare It was a very small islet, overgrown with bush vegetation; willow-boughs drooped down into the water; rushes, sedges, and wild trailing things flourished in uncontrolled luxuriance. A Vanished Hand Where the white lilies quiver By the sedge in the river, I fly in and out, I hunt all about; For I am the daring kingfisher, kingfisher! The Nursery, June 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 6 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers The boat grounded noiselessly in the mud, and we crept ashore one at a time through mud and sedge. The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator But there are treeless regions where the trail must be marked; regions of sage brush and sand, regions of rock, stretches of stone, and level wastes of grass or sedge. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts Bunches of teal wheeled and circled in the cold twilight, whizzed down among the rushes, darted up again and round over the pines, then shot down again and settled, splashing quietly in the sedge. Highways and Byways in Surrey You could listen to the whisper of the water among the sedges, and look off, across the river, to the low-lying meadows beyond—a scene which was fascinating in its intense quietness. A Vanished Hand Since then, many summers and winters must have passed; and grasses and sedges, detached from the banks by the water, had filled up the interstices. Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora The nymph had always taken flight at the first step upon the bank, the first rustle of the sedges. The Dop Doctor On the drier banks, usually where the sedge begins near a swamp, we find the bog potato, or Indian potato. Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts One by one they died among the sedges, and there was no trace of them more. The Art of Disappearing The tallest sedge or the thickest underwood could not give us shelter from pursuers like these. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West The secrets of the marshland wastes have been whispered in his ears by the wind in the willows, and have been sung to him by the sighing sedge. George Borrow in East Anglia For Artemis may invite, if unconsciously, the hot pursuit of the hunter; the shy, close-folded nymph among the sedges may awaken the primal desire of Pan among the reeds.... The Dop Doctor The ingestion of certain plants as sedges and scouring rushes is also said to cause a bloody condition; madders impart a reddish tinge due to coloring matter absorbed. Outlines of Dairy Bacteriology, 8th edition A Concise Manual for the Use of Students in Dairying Cuckoo calling from the hill, Swallow skimming by the mill, Swallows trooping in the sedge, Starlings swirling from the hedge, Mark the seasons, map our year, As they show and disappear. Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold Our obstinate paths met at the base of a small point white with alkali, running shortly into the sedges. Desert Dust Opalescent berries resemble heaps of pearls, and the lemon stalks of marine sedge gleam like wedges of gold in the crystalline depths. Through the Malay Archipelago Grasses and sedges, with all bushes, it frowns upon, as a model housekeeper frowns upon dirt. The Foot-path Way There had been no rain for months, the water stood very low, and here and there were little islands of dry yellow sand, on which grew reeds and sedge. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia The stream is not stagnant, but it flows on with a gentle current, sometimes through sedge or between grassy banks; elsewhere edged by a beach of the finest yellow sand. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 We would form little columns of twenty or thirty men, in two ranks, and would just trot round and round in the tall weeds and broom sedge to keep from chilling to death. The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 Where the song that wells from a feathered throat The echoes repeat again and again, And the drifted sedge and the bubbles float O'er the glassy depths of a miniature main! The Old Hanging Fork and Other Poems The sportsmen went on each side of the river, beating the banks and sedges with the dogs. Anecdotes of Dogs Zounds, sir, do you call it civilization to see hundreds of fields turned out to persimmon bushes and broom sedge? The Jucklins A Novel This, then, was the stage setting: Trenholme, screened by black cedars and luxuriant brushwood, was seated about fifty feet above the level of the lake and some forty yards from its nearest sedges. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley A forest pony stood here and there—pastern-deep in the sedges—and gazed at those two wild riders, grave and gay, like a ghost. Vixen, Volume II. Among these are some kinds of sedges, chickweeds, and catchflies. Seed Dispersal In limestone districts, peat is chiefly formed from grasses and sedges. Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel Underfoot were the sedge and moss; overhead the thick boughs and the roses; in the air, the odor of hay and the songs of birds. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time After some chase they caught him in the sedge, and brought him in, the picture of unhappiness, with drooping head and trailing wing, before the bishop. Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England The beach, on close inspection, proved soft and dirty, the grass sedge, the meadow a bog. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 In this way seeds of water plantain, sedges, grasses, rushes, docks, arrowhead, pondweeds, duckweed, cat-tail flag, bur reed, bladderwort, water crowfoot, and many others are transported from one pond, lake, or stream, to another. Seed Dispersal Peats produced principally from grasses are grayish in appearance at the surface, being full of silvery fibres—the skeletons of the blades of grasses and sedges, while below they are commonly black. Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel Then there was silence again, save that every now and again a sedge warbler, far away by the stream near Shenvarla, sang a faintly audible song. Fifty-Two Stories For Girls Poor management and erosion soon depleted the supply of top soil and many areas were abandoned to broom sedge, blackberries and gullies. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952 They are usually found on ponds or large sheets of stagnant water, sometimes on deep, slow-moving streams; but always where sedges and rushes are abundant. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 4 April, 1897 An air-tight sack buoys up seeds.—Here are several dry fruits of sedges—plants looking considerably like grasses. Seed Dispersal The peat-producing vegetation of the former is chiefly moss and heather, of the latter coarse grasses and sedges. Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel While lying there but partially screened by the low sedge, he saw rebel officers and men walk by, and heard their conversation, which was entirely devoted to the affair of the morning. Reminiscences of Two Years in the United States Navy The hunter, tired of his long stillness in the sedge, was just about to stand up and stretch himself, when from far down the sky to southward came a hollow and confused clamour. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life Its nest, which is found along borders of rivers, is made of sedge and grasses suspended near tall reeds. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 4 April, 1897 Now we see the probable reason why the sack is inflated in some species of sedges and not in others. Seed Dispersal Upon the water sedge he finds subsistence; but his natural enemy, the wolverene, skulks in the same neighbourhood. Popular Adventure Tales She pouted and shrugged and absently plucked a hollow stem from the sedge. Barbarians Upon their coming, the fire, and dreadful thunders, and inexplicable death burst forth from the sedge; and then the great brown dog appeared to drag his prey to shore. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life She knew she had waded bosom-deep Along death's bank in the sedge of sleep. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Alarmed at their approach, some Frogs fled distractedly into the green sedge. The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes 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 Cautiously they made their way from one quaking patch of sedge to another or scrambled to their middles. Blackbeard: Buccaneer A moment later the surprised bird found himself standing among the wet sedge, close to the water. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life Timid Hares, from the trumpeting wind, Fled as swift as the fear in their mind; Till in fright from their fear, From the green sedges near, Leaping Frogs left their terror behind. The Baby's Own Aesop Once more silence was reigning over the scene, when all at once Don Cornelio fancied he saw a movement among the sedge, as if some one was making his way through it. The Tiger Hunter 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 Down he came in breakneck haste and urged the others to haul their craft farther up into the sedge. Blackbeard: Buccaneer Before the hunter in the sedge could get fresh cartridges into his gun, the diminished flock was out of range, making desperate haste to safer feeding-grounds. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life Overhead the bare trees lifted a network of twigs against a dull sky, a cold wind stirred the sedge grass, and fluttered the dry leaves that had lain all winter in the fence corners. Mr. Opp No Indian sprang from the bush, no crocodile came out of the sedge; and the river was crossed without one of them being drowned. The Nursery, July 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 1 It had been feeding in a sedge of the wild rice, and no doubt the sight of the canoe or the plash of the guiding oar had disturbed, and given it the alarm. Popular Adventure Tales That mallard by the river edge Has bathed amid the reeds and sedge: Now with his mate he fondly plays And fires my bosom as I gaze. The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse Somewhere—anywhere—in the Atlantic, islands drifted like those tissues of root and sedge that break from the edges of northern lakes and are sent to and fro by the gales: floating islands. Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate The thrush no longer sings its tender song In osage thicket, or in locust hedge, But pipes its notes the negro boys among, On cotton plant, or Alabama sedge. Gleams of Sunshine Optimistic Poems What we shall do if an Indian springs from behind the bushes, or a crocodile comes out of the sedge, I don't know. The Nursery, July 1873, Vol. XIV. No. 1 It is the dear little sedge-warbler; often, indeed, heard, but not so often seen, for it is fond of hiding itself in bushes or sedges. Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children The sedge has withered from the Lake And no birds sing. Keats: Poems Published in 1820 Amidst the sedge a whisper ran, The West shut down a heavy eye, And like last tapers, few and wan, The watch-stars kindled in the sky. Songs of Childhood Already it had cleared the sedge, and was floating out in open water. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Just in front of the vessel the river was impeded quite across by a dense growth of rank reeds and sedges; a little further on there was clear water. Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters There are a few sedges here and there—a pretty order of plants; at present you must be content with making yourselves acquainted with their general form. Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children And this is why I sojourn here Alone and palely loitering; Though the sedge is withered from the Lake And no birds sing. . .. Keats: Poems Published in 1820 |
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