Then, late in the morning, when the green world among the willows and rushes was still and warm and sweet, she led her fluffy, sturdy brood straight down to the water, and taught them to feed on the insects that clung to the bulrush stalks.
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.
So he called out in a cheerful voice: "Clever Alligator, clever Alligator, to catch hold of a bulrush root instead of my paw!
I suppose I must have seized a bulrush root instead, as he says," and he let the Jackal go.
She had always seemed part of a simple family life for which he and Jesse Bulrush and her mother and the nurse-Nurse Egan-were responsible.
Golly, but she's a gold dollar in a gold bank," remarked Jesse Bulrush warmly as he lurched into the street.
He split the secondbulrush as an experiment and just the same thing happened.
Both the Scirpus lacustris and Typha latifolia (the Reed Mace) are popularly known as the Bulrush (a corruption of Pole Rush or Pool Rush).
In South America, a similar kind of Bulrushis used for a like purpose.
Blow upon blow, thwack upon thwack--they fought hand to hand until black rock and bulrush were all gone.
The men for the most part were naked, and the women wore a shredded bulrush (tule?
The Fletcher account is fairly specific on particulars of dress--women wore shredded bulrush skirts and deerskin shoulder capes, and men were ordinarily naked.
The Bulrush (Pool Rush) is a Sedge; the Club Rush is a Typha; and the flowering Rush, a Butomus.
The Bulrush (Scirpus lacustris) is a tall, aquatic plant, which belongs to the Sedge tribe.
Don't you mind him," said Tom Sedge-Warbler, who was swinging on a tall bulrushhard by.
Then a beautiful fairy person who was the Water-Lady slid down a bulrush and said, "You mustn't go in there: trespassers will be prosecuted.
I certainly thought I had caught that little jackal,” he said to himself, “and it seems I have caught nothing but a bulrush root.
You thought you would catch my paw, and you didn’t catch anything but a bulrush root that I stuck down there in the water to tickle your nose.
On the 13th of April we made our third experiment of the bulrush boats, as the Emperor desired once more to see his dear friends before they left.
Blow upon blow, thwack upon thwack-they fought hand to hand until black rock andbulrush were all gone.
Well," said the father, "I will also get a little of the bulrush root, to learn how it tastes.
I shall know every stump of willow--every bulrushbefore I am a month older.
The Mescaleros had 'a raft of bulrush or cane, floated and supported by some twenty or thirty hollow pumpkins fastened together.
The West returned the favor with a blow of bulrush that rung over the shoulders of Manabozho, far and wide, like the whip-thong of the lightning among the clouds.
Round about the bulrush nods; old great trees stand in the rains knee-deep like the cattle upon its marge pondering, and the breath of oak and hazel hangs from shore to shore.
Neither soldier nor shepherd seems to be in you, a muckle bulrush nodding to the winds of Heaven!
Knapp, packing the other can, could hear the sound of his heavy movements, the hacking of the knife at the bulrush stalks and then the thud of falling earth.
Here in the heart of the tules, where a head moving over the bulrush floor might be discerned, sound would not carry far.
And yet there are peculiarities of form which make the bulrush float of the Egyptians worthy of comparison with those used in the rivers of Australia.
Wilkinson); but it seems probable that he must refer to a more advanced form of vessel than the mere bulrush float.
Still the hunter sees its traces Scattered far o'er hill and valley; Sees the giant bulrush growing By the ponds and water-courses, Sees the masses of the Wawbeek Lying still in every valley.
The old Alligator was hidden away beneath the mud and bulrush leaves, and he couldn't see anything.
Smart Mr. Alligator, to take that old bulrush root for my paw!
A number of women and young girls brought baskets of fish, roasted birds, and prepared bulrush root, whilst some very large eggs, such as I had never seen the like before, with green shells were stacked upon the grass.
We had depended for food since leaving the blacks' camp upon a supply of dried fish and prepared bulrush root, which Moira had brought with her in her dilly-bag, but we were now compelled to seek fresh means for our support.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bulrush" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: grass; oats; wheat
