sedgy

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It was cold there on that sedgy little island, and they shivered, their clothes sodden with mud; only the babies, the little twins, were dry and warm in their basket.

From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry

Once a broad sheet of crystal water covered the cress-beds of Fulmere—a sheet with sedgy shores, in which sheltered the bittern, and blue heron, the bald coot, the water-hen, and the gold-crested widgeon.

From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne

The country close around, with the exception of two low hills, was flat and sedgy, broken by marshes and shallow rivulets.

From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis

The moorland has disappeared, with its sedgy pools, instead of which there is an abundance of rivulets, growing more limpid and more headlong as you proceed; for you are ascending steadily, your horizon enlarging.

From For the Right by Franzos, Karl Emil

The river St. Charles, after meandering through a fertile valley, sweeps the rocky base of the town, which it covers by expanding into sedgy marshes.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various