| 单词 | sedgy |
| 例句 | It was cold there on that sedgy little island, and they shivered, their clothes sodden with mud; only the babies, the little twins, were dry and warm in their basket. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Arrived at the sedgy ocean line he halted, and turned upon her. A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 2012-04-02T02:00:24.090Z The country close around, with the exception of two low hills, was flat and sedgy, broken by marshes and shallow rivulets. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z Along the foot of the uplands to the right he marked a patch of swamp, sown with sedgy pools and clumps of dense bushes. Hoof and Claw 2012-01-28T03:00:27.507Z In May we found them singly, those shot then being all drakes rising from small sedgy pools. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z These were casting themselves uncertainly over a sedgy and heathery slope, on which, in this wind, the hottest scent would soon be chilled to its marrow. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z Its favourite summer resorts in England are lakes which are lined with rushes, boggy places on the moors, and sedgy rivers. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z It is most abundant in grassy and sedgy meadows and in open bogs, though it is found rarely in swamps and tree-covered bogs. 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 Sadly waved the blades of tall sedgy grass over the quicksands; here and there grew a few stunted fir-trees, or barren shrubs. The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z Water-hens are as common as at home; and at rare intervals the great purple water-hen is sprung by the spaniels from some sedgy morass. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z To please Mark he poled the raft to Bamboo Island, and then across to the sedgy banks at the southern extremity of New Formosa, but Mark did not get another shot. Bevis The Story of a Boy 2011-08-13T02:00:28.377Z The moorland has disappeared, with its sedgy pools, instead of which there is an abundance of rivulets, growing more limpid and more headlong as you proceed; for you are ascending steadily, your horizon enlarging. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z Two hours' desperate riding over flooded creeks, through forest and flat, rocky ridge and sedgy morass, brought him to Omeo. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z A shrub-like species of the magnolia grew around the pond, hedging it in with great white blossoms, and the sedgy borders were aglow with wild flowers. Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life 2011-06-12T02:00:07.963Z A plover was faintly calling from the sedgy shore on the other side. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z If the winding Wayverne had overflowed its sedgy banks and flooded all Midlandshire, the young surgeon could have been scarcely more surprised than he was by the contents of his friend's letter. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z The river St. Charles, after meandering through a fertile valley, sweeps the rocky base of the town, which it covers by expanding into sedgy marshes. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z A narrow bridge of logs led across a sedgy runlet, which, like many mountain streams, was unfordable, except in occasional spots. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z Thereupon they all three journeyed forth together, until they came to a sedgy marsh, and there they found a white man. Folk-Lore and Legends: Oriental 2011-02-22T03:00:06.247Z The banks of the Kephissus, too, are lined with great reeds, and sedgy marsh plants, which stoop over into its sandy shallows and wave idly in the current of its stream. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z Very often a pair of owls, just like the English barn-owl, are seen beating the swampy ground, I suppose after rats; quartering the ground, and examining every sedgy patch like a setter-dog. Two Years in Oregon 2011-02-16T03:00:33.293Z By the sedgy brink, where the wild herds drink, close couches the grim old chief; The trembling sycamore above whispers with every leaf. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z We could distinguish the bleating of sheep on the plain below, and the screaming of wildfowl on the sedgy shores of Lake Chalco! The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains 2011-02-09T03:00:48.583Z Through these they fare, and stand upon the sedgy bank of the river of death. Studies in the Poetry of Italy, I. Roman 2011-02-06T03:00:58.870Z This they are enabled to do, wherever there are extensive commons of unpastured lands, or where there are streams or ponds, lakes or marshes with shoal sedgy banks. Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. Where the great post-road from Genoa to the South passes, a miserable shealing stands, half hidden in tall osiers, and surrounded with a sedgy, swampy soil the foot sinks in at every step. The Fortunes Of Glencore The trunks of the black alders are mailed with crystal; and the witch-hazel, and yellow osiers fringing its sedgy borders, are likewise shining through their glossy covering. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings Old Father Thames rais'd up his reverend head, But fear'd the fate of Simois7 would return; Deep in his ooze he sought his sedgy bed, And shrank his waters back into his urn. Six Centuries of English Poetry Tennyson to Chaucer She plunged into a swampy hollow where clusters of tall catstail, sweet flag and sedgy rushes grew around a little pond, swarming with trout and gold fish. A Noble Woman At noon on the 22nd of August the riders crossed a small stream and set up their tents on the border of a sedgy lake. The Cariboo Trail A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia He moans by sedgy brook, And visits, with a sigh, The last pale flowers that look, From out their sunny nook, At the sky. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition “Blessings be upon you, Enda,” said the swan, and she sailed away from the shadow out into the 24 light across the lake to the sedgy banks. Irish Fairy Tales Their eyes are black, and green their hair— They lurk in sedgy shores.” Myths of the Norsemen From the Eddas and Sagas The pictures were of woods and lakes, or a bit of sedgy river. A Modern Cinderella Between the house and the gardens there is a very beautiful run of water, with a sort of little, wild, narrow sedgy meadow. Highways and Byways in Surrey Gladly smile the little daisies, Which that river grow beside; Gladly sing the happy song-birds, While 'mid sedgy haunts they hide 3. Little Folks (November 1884) A Magazine for the Young There is nothing, it appears, except long sedgy grass, and a little soil to prevent its sinking into the shades of eternal night. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson The coot “clanking” in the sedgy pools is no more heard. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter Behead me, and I wander free, In wood or meadow fair, Leap down the rock on mosses soft, Tall ferns, and maiden-hair; Or linger in the sedgy deep, And baby-lilies rock to sleep. Stories of Many Lands The perfume of the open land grew in the night air,—the scent of dew-wet grass, the smell of still water and of sedgy shores. The Flaming Jewel Lo! to yon sedgy bank He creeps disconsolate; his numerous foes Surround him, hounds and men. Anecdotes of Dogs They usually prefer sedgy lakes, large swampy morasses and brooks, or ponds and rivers well stocked with vegetation. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 4 April, 1897 The pot-hunter stopped his crawling and peered delightedly through the sedgy stems. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life The sedgy pools and ditches in the forest were noisy with the hoarse croaking of colonies of frogs. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea The sedgy grasses on either side are full of water birds. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America Much wondered she when bright By sedgy pools, flamingoes stalked. Lilith The Legend of the First Woman At the same moment a heron, with a loud cry, rose from the sedgy banks; and the deer, as if its note had been one of warning, turned her head towards where we were. In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting See also 'The Lady of the Lake': And the bittern sound his drum, Booming from the sedgy shallow. Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman The perfume of the open land grew in the night air, — the scent of dew-wet grass, the smell of still water and of sedgy shores. The Flaming Jewel A floating log would scarce have settled there, against the sedgy bank, and where there was current enough to carry it onward; it was no log, it was the great lizard itself. Ran Away to Sea Wide Oft strayed fair Eve; the little maid, beside, Plucking the lotus; or by sedgy moats, From ribbed papyrus broad, frail fairy boats Deft fashioning. Lilith The Legend of the First Woman How we longed for ammunition to kill some of the water-fowl which rose from the sedgy shores! In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting The low, sedgy places were frozen over and covered with snow; the edges of the bay, Charles River, and Mystic River were assuming their winter garments as well. A Little Girl in Old Boston The boys had their trousers rolled above their knees, and some of the girls took off their shoes and stockings and waded about in the wet, sedgy grass. A Little Girl of Long Ago Through the depths of the ravine welled the shallow stream before alluded to, and Hugh Badger had no sooner reached its sedgy margin than he lost all trace of the fugitive. Rookwood I could see in the distance on a sedgy bank several dark objects, which I guessed were crocodiles. In the Wilds of Africa Some love the open wave; others the sedgy marsh; while one or two species roost upon trees, and build their nests in the hollow trunks. The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North Well-loved grounds of Saint Werner’s by the quiet waves of the sedgy Iscam, with smooth green grass sloping down to the edge, and trim quaint gardens, and long avenues of chestnut and ancient limes! Julian Home "Blessings be upon you, Enda," said the swan, and she sailed away from the shadow out into the light across the lake to the sedgy banks. The Golden Spears And Other Fairy Tales How many an enthusiastic flower-hunter has plucked his fragrant bouquet of the beautiful Arethusa, in its sedgy haunt, without a suspicion of the beautiful secret which lay beneath its singular form! My Studio Neighbors On reaching their point of destination, which was where the river was less rapid, and its banks sedgy and thickly grown with flaggers and bulrushes, the sport of spearing for eels commenced. Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes In about five days after leaving Norway House we arrived at the mouth of Red River; and a very swampy, sedgy, flat-looking mouth it was, covered with tall bulrushes and swarming with water-fowl. Hudson Bay Myriads of wild-fowl—from the lordly swan to the twittering sandpiper—swarmed among its sedgy lakelets, while grouse and ptarmigan were to be seen in large flocks on its uplands. The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole He pointed, as he spoke, to a ripple in the water on the opposite side of the river, close under a bank which was clothed with rank, broad-leaved, and sedgy vegetation. The Red Eric She was now on the open wold, where there were neither hedges nor walls, but only a few stones to mark the road from the sedgy, heathery expanse of moor that stretched on either side. The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story I could almost fancy I was in the country, for there were a few rushes and some sedgy growth close to where the rat had been busy. Patience Wins War in the Works The cayman plunged sullenly into the sedgy water; and the “Sajou” monkey, suspended by his prehensile tail from some overhanging bough, oscillated to and fro, and filled the air with his hideous, half-human cries. The Rifle Rangers There were tracts of moist ground, sometimes covered with tall forest-trees, at others opening out into a sedgy morass, with perhaps a small lake or water-patch in the centre. The Castaways The borders of the lake are marshy and sedgy, the surrounding plain is bare and open, and there is no vestige of man and his habitation. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development There were sedgy plants in bloom, jack-in-the-pulpit, and what might have been a lily, with a more euphonious name. A Little Girl in Old Salem On the quiet sedgy bank of a stagnant pool, and under the shadow of rank reeds and bulrushes, sat two frogs. The Frog Who Would A Wooing Go After brief pause at the foot of Lake Winnipeg, our brigade turned southward and made speed up the Red through the rush-grown sedgy swamps which over-flood the river bed. Lords of the North Sir Walter Scott uses the participle: "The bittern booming from the sedgy shallow." Notes and Queries, Number 191, June 25, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. They get fat on the fish and tender sedgy grass, and when placed on the dinner-table are very good eating. Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 It was borne by one whose boyhood we have painted amid the fields and schools of Eton, and the springtime of whose earliest youth we traced by the sedgy waters of the Cam. Tancred Or, The New Crusade Through this singular region, and overgrown with rank, sedgy grass, is a wagon trail, here and there along its winding course several inches under water; and into this wretched road we turned our horses. The Statesmen Snowbound The only retreat possible was to pass down this declivity, and try to escape by the sedgy land, and this is what the Black huntsmen had expected. Dot and the Kangaroo The fens and marshes are his cool retreat, His noontide shelter from the burning heat; Their sedgy bosoms his wide couch are made, And groves of willows give him all their shade. The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 What is strange, no wild animals show themselves, not even in these sedgy, reedy swamps. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government The Lord of Clâs to his hunting is gone, Over plain and sedgy moor; The glare of his bridle bit has shone On the heights of wild Benmore. The Poetry of Wales It is dotted with small, low, sedgy islands, marshes and swamps. Nick Baba's Last Drink and Other Sketches Yet the lark's shrill fife may come At the daybreak from the fallow; And the bittern sound his drum, Booming from the sedgy shallow. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century There were wooded banks and hollows just round it; but farther afield the chill, bare moorland stretched away toward the sea, broken here and there by sullen sedgy tarns. Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' Agriculture has chosen its valleys for her favourite seat, and drainage and steam-power have turned sedgy marshes into farm and meadow. History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 The mouth is filled with large reedy sedgy islets: there are three branches, about twelve to fifteen yards broad, and one fathom deep, with a strong current of 2' per hour: water discoloured. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi Now they dipped their noble limbs in your sedgy lakes, and now they paddled the light canoe along your rocky shores. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader It stands near the north end of the Lakelet Mofwé; this is from one to three miles broad, and some six or seven long: it is full of sedgy islands, and abounds in fish. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 When the Maccabee had returned to the spot in the sedgy valley where he and Julian had halted, he found the Ephesian white to the lips and with ignited eyes awaiting him. The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem The woodland and sedgy lore in it is discreet and attractive. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 Carrying me across one of the broad deep sedgy rivers is really a very difficult task. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume II (of 2), 1869-1873 Continued By A Narrative Of His Last Moments And Sufferings, Obtained From His Faithful Servants Chuma And Susi Yet the lark's shrill fife may come, At the daybreak from the fallow, And the bittern sound his drum, Booming from the sedgy shallow. McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader Mofwé is a shallow piece of water about two miles broad, four or less long, full of sedgy islands, the abodes of waterfowl, but some are solid enough to be cultivated. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 No wardens now by sedgy fountains dwell, Nor pearly Naiads. The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood A small rivulet was now reached, and another halt being called upon its sedgy banks, the plans were again consulted. The Lancashire Witches A Romance of Pendle Forest These tracks are found in the greatest numbers, leading from the woods down to the lakes, and among the long sedgy grass and brakes by the edge of the water. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Suddenly he felt against his feet the rustle of long sedgy grass--he stooped down and found that he had reached the margin of a frozen lake. The Great Lone Land A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America We had the Likindazi, a sedgy stream, with hippopotami, on our right. The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 When he revived he found himself in long sedgy grass, well shielded from observation. Prince Lazybones and Other Stories By Mrs. W. J. Hays Floating quietly down the rivers of France in a house-boat, he diligently reproduced the sedgy banks, the low-lying distances the poplars and clumps of trees lining the shore, and reflected in the waters. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896 The French batteries replied; and, amid this deafening roar of artillery, the English boats set their troops ashore at the edge of the broad tract of sedgy mud that the receding river had left bare. Montcalm and Wolfe Upon the flats that appeared below these, there grew a sedgy kind of grass and weeds: In general the soil here, as well as in the valley, seemed to be rich. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time The land about the pond was of that willow-grown, sedgy kind that cats and horses avoid, but that cattle do not fear. Lobo, Rag and Vixen Being The Personal Histories Of Lobo, Redruff, Raggylug & Vixen They have scarcely touched the sedgy shores of a charming island, when a ruffian, Cymochles,—or Deceit,—bursts out of the thicket to claim the lady. The Book of the Epic Martin and Will were chirping farewells, and lamenting that they would have no more chances of studying water-snakes in sedgy pools with Dol. Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods High bulrushes, tall flags; thick, sedgy vegetation beneath; the ground, firm enough below at first, soon became quaking and felt strangely elastic under their feet. The Rival Heirs; being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune Far away across the sedgy tundra lay the sea, a line of molten gold in the last rays of the belated June sunset. Baldy of Nome Streams sprang up in the meadow-lands, with sedgy islands, and lines of silvery willows bordering their banks. Master Skylark The shores were often too sedgy and wet to permit our landing, and we went on till twelve o'clock before finding a suitable spot to breakfast. Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers It was like a new world, so different was it from the sand hills and the sedgy levels of Henlopen. Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates; fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish main Before cooking soak them all night in salt and water, to draw out whatever fishy or sedgy taste they may happen to have, and which may otherwise render them uneatable. Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches On the last day of June we marched out of Wells, and made our way across flat sedgy plains and over the low Polden Hills to Bridgewater, where we found some few recruits awaiting us. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Here on the flowing tide there was coolness, and the long rank grass upon those low sedgy shores was still green. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger This "gentle Severn's sedgy bank" is too poetical for Hotspur; but what shall be said of his description of the river? The Man Shakespeare The sedgy perfume, delightful to my nostrils, reminded me of "the mash" and south bay of my native island. Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy As we entered the room, methought I was slowly sinking in some reluctant, sedgy sea; so thick and elastic the Persian carpeting, mimicking parterres of tulips, and roses, and jonquils, like a bower in Babylon. Redburn. His First Voyage Dense forests, impassable morasses, and sedgy streams always bounded the immediate prospect, and the clearings were few and far between. The Englishwoman in America The brush crackled and snapped with the movements of the wolf-pack; the continued snarling, whining, yapping, stilled the chorus of the frogs along the sedgy banks. Darkness and Dawn Can we describe ourselves pitilessly with snub nose, or coarse beak, bandy legs or thin shanks; gross paunch or sedgy beard? The Man Shakespeare I, like the tiny bee, that sips The fragrant thyme, and strays Humming through leafy ways, By Tibur's sedgy banks, with trembling lips Fashion my toilsome lays. Horace Lo! to yon sedgy bank He creeps disconsolate; his numerous foes Surround him, hounds and men. The Poetical Works of Addison; Gay's Fables; and Somerville's Chase With Memoirs and Critical Dissertations, by the Rev. George Gilfillan It was a long, gabled building on the brink of the river, from whose low, grated windows the culprits could catch glimpses of the James, tumbling over its sedgy, sometimes rocky bed. The Iron Game A Tale of the War Together he and Beatrice crashed out among the willows and the alders on the sedgy shore, with the vague, shifting, bristling horror of the wolf-pack at their heels. Darkness and Dawn It flashed in the sedgy hollows, And smiled in the woodland dell; It whispered in low, soft zephyrs That breathed o'er the lake and fell. Lays from the West We always called the little bit of sedgy ground under the willow America, and used to send freights of paper and cardboard across the mimic ocean, which did not always arrive safely. Esther : a book for girls He saw it through a screen of bare wet maple branches—a dripping brown meadow lightly wreathed in blue mist, sedgy undergrowth along water and the further ranges of hills merged in shifting clouds. Cytherea They stepped out of the boat at a green, sedgy point, extending from a labyrinth of flowering vines and creepers. The Iron Game A Tale of the War Soft flow'd the lay by Avon's sedgy side, While o'er its streams the drooping willow hung Beneath whose shadow Silvio fondly tried To check the opening roses as they sprung. Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01 We continued to ascend for a mile further, and then reached the top of the range, which was bare of trees and covered with sedgy grass. The Naturalist in Nicaragua At this point in the conversation Hyde entered, brown and wind-blown, the scent of the sedgy water and the flowery woods about him. The Maid of Maiden Lane This fellow hath never trudged at early dawn along the verdant banks of the 'sedgy lea,' and drunk in the dewy freshness of the morning air. Sketches by Seymour — Volume 04 But never more will I plant myself, like a weeping willow, upon the sedgy bank of stream or river. Sketches by Seymour — Volume 01 The valley had a marshy stream with sedgy margins and occasional clumps of alder and willow trees. Afoot in England Rounded boggy hills covered with grass, sedgy plants, and stunted trees replaced the dry gravelly soil of the Juigalpa district. The Naturalist in Nicaragua This metaphor is pleasantly expanded in Burton's ``Bookhunter'': wherein you read of certain folios with ``their majestic stream of central print overflowing into rivulets of marginal notes, sedgy with citations.'' Pagan Papers Charley and Brown got seventeen ducks, on one of the sedgy lagoons. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 The only retreat possible was to pass down this declivity, and try to escape by the sedgy land, and this is what the black huntsmen had expected. Dot and the Kangaroo The land about the pond was of that willow-grown sedgy kind that cats and horses avoid, but that cattle do not fear. Wild Animals I Have Known Yet the lark's shrill fife may come At the daybreak from the fallow, And the bittern sound his drum Booming from the sedgy shallow. The Lady of the Lake A breakneck ride down a steep declivity, and then a gallop of two miles over the sedgy plain carried them to the outer harbor. Sir Nigel In trying to cross the valley, my course was intercepted every way by deep reedy and sedgy lagoons, which rendered my progress impossible. Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 This was an outlying plot of neglected ground belonging to their farm, two sedgy meadows, hedged by banks on which grew oaks and ashes. Beyond He selected a sedgy clump near some smooth, grassy ground, and first firmly sunk the post, then dug a hole large enough to hide in, and spread his blanket in it. Wild Animals I Have Known The mother, who might well fear that it was about to be thrown over the parapet of the bridge into the sedgy waters below, held it fast by its long train. Oxford Dark-green sedgy cane grew thick around half the margin. The Choir Invisible There she stands, drawn up high and dry upon the sedgy bank of Thames, like an old warrior resting after his toil. Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth They went on into the sedgy grass and the curlew continued to circle, vanishing and reappearing from behind the trees, always uttering those shrill cries. Beyond When it was drawing near to Blodsombre, they approached the sedgy margin of a dark green lake, which lay underneath Poolingdred. A Voyage to Arcturus |
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