There was no sound for several minutes except the rustling of the fallen leaves in the woods behind him, and then Uncle Henry's head and shoulders appeared above the broom-sedge near by.
Tall-sedge habitat in a beaver meadow on the west side of Gogebic Lake, Ontonagon County.
The habitat differs from the submerged-sedge habitat of protected lake shores in being higher above the water and in not being covered with water from July to September; probably water does not stand to any depth on it at any time.
Submerged-sedge habitat: Sedges in general do not occur as a definite belt about the margins of the lakes in the region studied.
Wildfowl here also proved inaccessible to a gunning-punt on open waters; while wherever reeds or sedge promised some "advantage," in such places the depth of water was always insufficient to float the lightest of craft within range.
The sedgeis wither'd from the lake, And no birds sing.
And this is why I sojourn here Alone and palely loitering, Though the sedge is wither'd from the lake, And no birds sing.
With a pillow of sedge and grass under his head he slept.
The walls are made of grass and sedge roots, together with spatter-docks and bur-reeds.
The huts, which lie scattered through the sedge and cattails, are some of them flat while others are high and dome-shaped.
And this is why I sojourn here Alone and palely loitering; Though the sedge is withered from the Lake And no birds sing.
The sedge has withered from the Lake And no birds sing.
In a thirty minutes' walk through the sedge I have flushed as many as two or three hundred of these birds.
The stalks or culms of this sedge were full eight feet high, with smooth leaves, an inch broad, nearly a yard in length, and of a light green colour.
Upon the water sedge he finds subsistence; but his natural enemy, the wolverene, skulks in the same neighbourhood.
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.
Lucien had not gone far, when he came to what appeared to be a mere sedge growing in the water.
Moreover, the sedge was so thick, that it was with difficulty they could use their oars.
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.
The nest itself is carelessly built of a few branches laid one on another, with a final layer of dry rush and sedge leaves.
All for the good of plants, and of men who derive benefits out of the sedge and reed beds.
Half in the seam of the gully, half in the sedge at the top, he made himself as easy as he could and rested a spectator.
All the plain, the sedge below, the rolling canopy above, was tinged with reddish umber.
Now in the early light their fellow soldiers had gone seeking them in the wood, drawn them forth, and laid them in a row in the wetsedge beside the road.
The air was filled with whistling shells; the broomsedge was on fire.
However, up he got, almost to the top--and then pitched forward, clutching at the growth of sedge along the crest.
The east was now pink, the air here very pure and cool and still, each feather of broom sedge holding its row of diamond dewdrops.
The regiment in which was Edward Cary divined an order and ceased firing, lying flat in sedge and sassafras, while a brigade from the rear roared by.
They moved out into old fields, grown with sedge and sassafras, here and there dwarf pines.
Like a grey wave broken against an iron shore, the troops with whom he had charged streamed back disordered, out of the shadowy wood into the open, where in the gold sedgelay many a dead man and many a wounded.
The sedge has withered from the lake, And no birds sing.
I seemed to see the long fringes of the lake, the sedge withered, the grey waters restless in the bonds of the wind, tuneless and chill; all these happy gardens swept bare and flowerless; and the far hills silent in the unattainable dawn.
Salicaria phragmitis, the Sedge Warbler; from one of its commonest notes resembling that of a sparrow (Great Estate, ch.
Sedge and lilies grow by this tarn so singularly situated.
The one which gave shelter to the fugitives differed from all these, having walls of split slabs, set stockade fashion, and thatched with a sedge of tule, taken from a little lake that lay near.
Grass was very scarce, but a running wiry sedge (Carex Moorcroftii) bound the sand, like the Carex arenaria of our English coasts.
A conferva grew in the waters of the lake, and short, hard tufts of sedge on the banks, but no other plants were to be seen.
My existence here is as still, as stagnant, as some pool down yonder in the sedge which last week's waves left among the sand hillocks, and your visits are like pebbles thrown into it, creating transient ripples and circles.
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.
Dragon flies lazily winged their way across the pool, now resting daintily upon a blade of sedge or swamp grass, now dipping the tips of their abdomens beneath the surface of the water while depositing their eggs.
The sedge warbler sang in the thick reeds a mocking ventriloquial lay, which reminded me at times of the less pronounced parts of our yellow-breasted chat's song.
Amongst the Passerine birds of the marshes we may instance the Sedge Warbler--one of the most widely distributed of British species--the varied chattering music of which is a very characteristic marsh sound during the summer.
Both Pied and Gray Wagtails are familiar objects on the towing-path; whilst among the vegetation near the water the Sedge Warbler has its summer home.
Included in the vegetable matter were seeds of bottle brush (Hippuris vulgaris), sedge (Carex sp.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sedge" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: grass; oats; wheat
