sedgy

Example Sentences

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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

Where the great post-road from Genoa to the South passes, a miserable shealing stands, half hidden in tall osiers, and surrounded with a sedgy, swampy soil the foot sinks in at every step.

From The Fortunes Of Glencore by Lever, Charles James

In May we found them singly, those shot then being all drakes rising from small sedgy pools.

From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Buck, Walter J.

Very often a pair of owls, just like the English barn-owl, are seen beating the swampy ground, I suppose after rats; quartering the ground, and examining every sedgy patch like a setter-dog.

From Two Years in Oregon by Nash, Wallis

Sadly waved the blades of tall sedgy grass over the quicksands; here and there grew a few stunted fir-trees, or barren shrubs.

From The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine by Heine, Heinrich