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

By the sedgy brink, where the wild herds drink, close couches the grim old chief; The trembling sycamore above whispers with every leaf.

From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Badlam, Anna B.

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

A plover was faintly calling from the sedgy shore on the other side.

From Rose of Dutcher's Coolly by Garland, Hamlin

Two hours' desperate riding over flooded creeks, through forest and flat, rocky ridge and sedgy morass, brought him to Omeo.

From Nevermore by Bolderwood, Rolf