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.
Jezebel was the first that dashed breast-high into the water; and seizing a pinion in her strong jaws, she soon drew both the swan and Fig, who would have died rather than let go, through the yielding sedges to the land.
The boom was topped-up in a moment, the jib-sheet let fly, and the boat's nose ran crashing through the sedges which in this part fringed the bank.
Behind those tall sedges was probably a brood of water-fowl, either sleeping in the heat of the day, or carefully feeding in the full security of desert solitude.
But when they rose to go back to Barvas the moonlight had grown full and clear, and the long and narrow loch had a pathway of gold across, stretching from the reeds and sedges of the one side to the reeds and sedges of the other.
Then did Finola glide from the shelter of the sedges across the rose-lit lake, and there by the shore of the Western Sea she chanted a song of hope.
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.
We will fetch thee straight Adonis painted by a running brook, And Cytherea all in sedges hid, Which seem to move and wanton with her breath Even as the waving sedges play with wind.
Then, too, instead of the sweet sedges that strewed the high place, men had spread a cloth of bright hues underfoot there, and the sedges had been swept among the rushes of the lower places.
Reeds and sedges grew in the water along the banks, rendering the junction of the land and the stream uncertain and confused.
Weary, but far from exhausted, the female carrying the White Sturgeon-to-be pushed herself into the sedges and lay quietly while she rid herself of the burden that she had carried so far.
On either side of the pool was a mat of green sedgesand water-lilies, and in them a great horde of ducks were rearing their young.
Guided by the most precise of instincts, the White Sturgeon went exactly to that spawning bed in the sedges where he was born, and fertilized the eggs that a female left there.
A million or more eggs she left there, and almost before she was finished two little pike that made their home in the sedges had started gobbling them up.
But for your fish, as they were ill come by, let us even give them to good Master Hedgely here, and so be merry till the sedges come on in the late twilight.
It is not a mile in circumference, and all but some eighty yards of shore is defended against the angler by wide beds of water-lilies, with their pretty white floating lamps, or by tall sedges and reeds.
Here are calamus patches, and alder thickets, and sedges without number; and the prickly carex and blue-flag abound on every side.
Four of these were taken in tall sedges, one in grass alongside the sedges, and one in sphagnum between the sedges and the lake.
Sedges occur frequently, and the pitcher plant is very characteristic.
The log bridged over a particularly wet part of the marshy sedges and was at the edge of the hardwood forest.
Here there are considerable areas of sedges partially submerged by the water.
At the south end of the beaver meadow willows and alders are invading the sedges in very wet ground.
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.
Submerged-sedge habitat: Sedges in general do not occur as a definite belt about the margins of the lakes in the region studied.
A juvenile was trapped July 26 on top a log in the tall sedgesat Mud Lake.
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.
Grassy-meadow habitat: Part of the beaver meadow studied near Gogebic Lake is covered by a thick growth of grasses and sedges of a number of species.
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.
The individuals taken in the tall sedges at Mud Lake were probably stragglers from the nearby shrubs and forest, for no deer-mice were taken in the extensive sedges of the large beaver meadow studied near Gogebic Lake.
August 30 to September 5, eleven were taken in tallsedges in a beaver meadow near Gogebic Lake, Ontonagon County.
September 1 a marsh shrew was trapped in the tall sedges of a beaver meadow near Gogebic Lake, Ontonagon County.
And when she saw the basket in the sedges she sent one of her maids for it: and when it was brought, 2:6.
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.
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.
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.
The grasses form one family and the sedges another, but while they differ in the characters just mentioned they agree in having flowers of the same general type.
Among the sedges one of the commonest genera is Cyperus, including many species of the galingale or earth almond.
The order containing the grasses and sedges is named for one of the families in it with the ending ales.
In sedges the sheath forms a complete investment of the stem, whilst in grasses it is split on one side.
Several single birds hunted in areas of sedges and grasses that yielded lemmings.
The vegetation at the nest was bright green and lawnlike because of trampling and fertilization of the grasses and sedges by the birds.
On windy, cold days the ptarmigan were mainly on south exposures among grasses and sedges along lakes and on windless days were on flat tundra of polygons but near dwarf shrubs.
These birds were capable of leaving the lake but remained in close proximity to their young that were hiding in the grasses and sedges along the side of the lake.
Several points of sedges projected into the lake from its edge.
On July 9, three miles north of camp 13 terns were amongsedges in standing water.
She was unable to fly and had secluded herself in the sedges and grasses along the edge of a lake.
The first erosional bench supported grasses andsedges and the slopes were covered with willows from a few inches to seven feet high.
The sedges and reeds rustled in the light breeze; and there was Odo.
The sedges came also, and fringed the marsh with a border of green.
I can leave half my clothes on the island," said Bevis, "and tie the rest on my back, and paddle here from the sedges in ten minutes.
In cutting them they took care to leave an outer fringe standing, so that if any one passed, or by any chance looked that way from the shore, he should not see that the sedges had been reaped.
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.
The raft was poled round and out to Pearl Island, on which no sedges grew, nor were there any within seventy or eighty yards.
To fill up the time till it was quite moonlight, they worked at a mast for the raft, and also cut some sedges and flags for the roof of the open shed, which was to be put up in place of the awning.
Out to Pearl Island and swim there: there are no sedges there.
Though it was a marsh, though they were on the shore, there was not a drop of water; if they went back to the sedges they could not get at the water, they would sink to the knees in mud first.
Sedges grew in quantities at the other end of the island, where the ground sloped till it became level with the water.
Far away, beyond the sedgesand the reeds, there was a broad strip of clear water, and across it the island of Serendib.
The roof was to be covered with brushwood to some thickness, and then thatched over that with sedges and reed-grass.
Certainly they could hear none, even the brook-sparrows in the sedges by the New Sea were quiet.
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.
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.
Mr. Brandt says in his notes: The nest of the long-billed dowitcher is a mere depression scratched out on a small eminence on a wet moss-covered meadow through which short sedges grow sparingly to a height of about six inches.
Audubon describes it as being built among sedges, and as usually constructed in part of the sedges among which it is placed, a fact which we have repeatedly confirmed.
The same distinguished writer, in speaking of their composition, says "they are made externally of coarse sedges firmly interwoven, the interstices being cemented with clay or mud.
In the dexterity with which it conceals itself among the reeds and sedges of its favorite haunts when hunted, and its seeming aversion to flight, it is the exact counterpart of the latter species.
The inside is lined with sedges and fine blades of grass.
They could all go out at the postern gate and so into the trackless sedges of the sea and the marches.
And if you ask me where your lord is, I will say I think she has him captive amongst weary sedges and the bones of other knights, if they have been dead long enough to become bones.
Squirming, and shining silverly, it was held aloft, while its captor stalked solemnly in through the sedges to a bit of higher and drier turf.
The hen came stalking solemnly through the grass and sedges towards the water's edge, only pausing on the way to transfix and gulp down a luckless frog.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sedges" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
