Horsemen in companies galloped to tents which were not in sight, strings of camels cast their long shadows on the purple sand, and flocks of big brown sheep, led by armed shepherds, converged on the reedy pool in long brown lines.
Then the beasts were driven in batches to the reedy pool, and came flying back helter-skelter through the archway, some fighting, others playing, many rolling.
After the inundations reedy grass grows in the hollows.
The reedy marshes, the haunts of pelicans and pigs, are left behind at Aimarah, and tamarisk scrub and liquorice appear on the banks.
For, indeed, the only water is a brackish reedy pool, with its slime well stirred by the feet of animals, and every man's hand is against his brother.
Near the south-east end is a shallow reedy mere, fringed by a fertile swampiness, which produces extraordinary crops of grass far out into the middle of the level.
Berried brake and reedy island, Heaven below and only heaven above azure Through the sky's inverted image Safely swam the boat that bore our love.
Berried brake and reedy island, Mirrored flower and shallop gliding by.
Berried brake and reedy island, Heaven below and only heaven above.
Now we sped around curving shores, and past grassy capes; now we skirted fairy islands and reedy shallows; then under hollow bridges, that gave back jolly echoes to Nell's laughter and the dip of the oars.
Nell, rapturously, as one moment we caught the glitter of a distant lake, the next the twinkle of a reedy pool overhung with hazel and alder bushes.
On the 18th, we found ourselves entering the reedy country, through which we had passed with such doubt and anxiety.
Flooded-gum trees of lofty size grew on these reedy spaces, and marked the line of the river, but the timber of the interior appeared stunted and useless.
Several times the elephants sounded, and we knew that he must be close at hand, but it was absolutely impossible to see anything beyond the thick reedy mass, through which the line of elephants bored as through a solid obstacle.
Call, chip; song, a reedy warble resembling in tone that of a Long-billed Marsh Wren.
A long drawn, deep, reedy cack and tweet-tweet-tweet-tweet.
The Bitterns are usually solitary birds inhabiting grassy or reedy marshes where their colors harmonize with their surroundings and render them difficult to see.
A hoarse, nasal, reedy car resembling the call of the young of No.
In that wan light distilled by stars and the earth he made out the reedy expanse of the lake.
He ran the car into that thick grove of oaks and maples only two miles from Rosebank where he had paced off an imaginary road to the cliff overhanging the reedy lake.
On Tuesday, November 25, "came to Reedy Island, and had the wonderful presence of God in the assembly in the afternoon.
The pull up the crooked river (sixteen miles) against a strong ebb-tide, through extensive reedy marshes, was uninteresting.
From my camp I crossed to the west shore below Reedy Island, and, filling my water-bottles at a farm-house, kept upon that shore all day.
WE HAVE LOVED OF YORE—Berried brake and reedy island XIII.
On a low mossy bank, a little child, His golden curls twined in the reedy grass, Clutching within his tear-stained feverish hands The yellow blossoms of the Celandine, Sobs out his heart in passionate childish grief.
My boat is still in the reedy cove Where the rushes hinder its onward course, For I care not now if we rest or move O'er the slumberous tide to the river's source.
It was left to the man of the reedy lake to pay the penalty of apprehension, to suffer the effects of crime upon a nature not naturally criminal.
Not a breath of wind stirred, and the shining path the moon made upon the reedy lake fascinated his eye.
She had tired of the gay company in camp, brought up for sport from beyond the American border where she also belonged, and she had come to explore the river running into this reedy lake.
Left alone, the man by the reedy lake stood watching them until they were out of view.
He heard her say to her father, "This was the man I told you of--at the reedy lake.
He saw the snake upon the ground by the reedy lake, the girl standing over it-- the girl with the tawny hair.
It lies a little isle mid land, An island in a sea of sand; With reedy waters and the balm Of an eternal summer air.
There were kine That browsed along the reedy brine, And now and then a tusky boar Would shake the high reeds of the shore, A bird blow by,--but that was all.
Ten miles down Reedy River One Sunday afternoon, I rode with Mary Campbell To that broad bright lagoon; We left our horses grazing Till shadows climbed the peak, And strolled beneath the sheoaks On the banks of Rocky Creek.
REEDY RIVER Ten miles down Reedy River A pool of water lies, And all the year it mirrors The changes in the skies, And in that pool’s broad bosom Is room for all the stars; Its bed of sand has drifted O’er countless rocky bars.
The Papilio Machaon (swallow-tail) used to be common about the reedy pools and bogs near the Moor; but owing to drainage and clearance none have been seen for several years.
Perhaps a great heron too intent on his fishing or frogging, or dozing in the fancied seclusion of his reedy bower, springs up within short range and goes lagging away on his broad vans.
Noiseless as ghosts, paddler and shooter glide along the even path till, alarmed by some keener sense than is given us, up rise wood duck, dusky duck, and teal from their reedy cover.
O what anear but golden brooms, And a waste of reedy rills!
On the west side the lake ends in a reedy marsh, very froggy that afternoon, and starred with the snowy cotton flower.
Let's do it," said Eugenia, starting up, and they went out upon the slippery log between the reedy banks.
The field extended from the cow-pen and the bright, green rows of vegetables that were raised for market to the reedy brook which divided his father's land from that belonging to General Battle.
Five minutes pass, and nothing is heard but the rumble of some distant cascade, the clatter of the stream as it laves its reedy banks and pebbled bed, or the rustle of the dry leaves around as they echo to the rabbit's heavy tread.
Knee-deep in some small stagnant stream or pool, or in the midst of sylvan glade or reedy marsh, he may be seen awaiting his prey.
In some of the Broads the rudd, which is first-cousin to the roach, occurs in incredible quantities, and affords capital fly-fishing on summer evenings off the fringes of the reedy thickets.
Sleepily the Ouse glides along by its reedy banks through the wide lowland, silently it slides by the waterside houses, the pretty gardens, and the modern bridge which has replaced an earlier and more picturesque structure.
Ayres shall immediately send a pilot on board his vessel, with orders to take charge of her, and proceed with her to Reedy Island, next high water.
Clearing the ridge they came down at length to the edge of the beach, close to the old pirate anchorage, and Jeremy led the way along through the bushes toward the mouth of the reedy inlet.
There might be a duck or two in that reedy cove below here.
They were headed south-eastward--straight toward the reedy swamp where the boys had seen the top-masts of the strange vessel!
