This "gentle Severn's sedgy bank" is too poetical for Hotspur; but what shall be said of his description of the river?
Can we describe ourselves pitilessly with snub nose, or coarse beak, bandy legs or thin shanks; gross paunch or sedgy beard?
In May we found them singly, those shot then being all drakes rising from small sedgy pools.
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.
Several of these duck villages can scarcely be said to be situated on terra firma, as many of the nipa or attap-houses are founded on the supporting trunks of trees growing out of the sedgy swamp.
They get fat on the fish and tender sedgy grass, and when placed on the dinner-table are very good eating.
He led the way for some distance through the darkness, his feet rustling harshly through the wiry, sedgy grass, and by and by Jack made out the dim outline of the wooden hut looming blackly against the starry sky.
Jack could see that they were maybe a mile from the marshy shore, over which had now awakened the ceaseless clamor of the gulls and the teeming life of the sedgy solitude.
Beyond, a level, sedgy stretch reached away into the night.
Away they pour over hill and dale, over soft ground and sound, through reedy rushes and sedgy flats, and over the rolling stones of the fallen rocks.
Then the South Bay and shores and the salt meadows, and the sedgy smell, and numberless little bayous and hummock-islands in the waters, the habitat of every sort of fish and aquatic fowl of North America.
The sedgy perfume, delightful to my nostrils, reminded me of "the mash" and south bay of my native island.
I could see in the distance on a sedgy bank several dark objects, which I guessed were crocodiles.
Innumerable birds flew amid the boughs of the trees, and wild-fowl rose from the sedgy shores, or gazed at us from the mud-banks as we shot by.
If you suspect them to besedgy or fishy, (you can ascertain by the smell when drawing or cleaning them,) parboil each duck, with a carrot put into his body.
If they are wild ducks, parboil them with a large carrot (cut to pieces) inside of each, to draw out the fishy or sedgy taste.
To remove the fishy or sedgy taste so often found in wild ducks, parboil them with a large carrot, cut in pieces, and placed in the body of each.
They were standing down by the edge of the water, upon a narrow pathway that ran along by the sedgy brink of the river, and only a few paces from the pavilion.
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.
The land about the pond was of that willow-grown sedgy kind that cats and horses avoid, but that cattle do not fear.
Enda took the helmet, dress, and spear, and it was not long until he came to the sedgy banks where his little boat was waiting for him.
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.
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.
We had the Likindazi, a sedgy stream, with hippopotami, on our right.
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.
To the left was a steep slope of small rocks and stones, leading downwards to the hollow of sedgy land that fringed the cliffs of the chasm.
The only retreat possible was to pass down this declivity, and try to escape by thesedgy land, and this is what the black huntsmen had expected.
The valley had a marshy stream with sedgy margins and occasional clumps of alder and willow trees.
The brook trails its attenuated thread out of the woodland gloom to gild its shallow ripples with sunshine and redden them with the inverted flames of the cardinals that blaze on the sedgy brink.
We crossed a rivulet at Chama's village ten yards wide and thigh deep, and afterwards in an hour and a half came to a sedgy stream which we could barely cross.
Recovering and thankful, but weak; cross broad sedgy stream, and so on to Boma Misonghi, W.
Carrying me across one of the broad deep sedgy rivers is really a very difficult task.
The land about the pond was of that willow-grown, sedgy kind that cats and horses avoid, but that cattle do not fear.
Shortly before reaching Warren village the country lane widens out, with a corner of sedgy greensward under the hedgerow.
Presently we emerge upon broad tidal flats, where groups of cattle are browsing amidst the lush sedgy herbage.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sedgy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
