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 Charles James Lever
Probably I’ll give the whole bunch of yellow-legs away, anyhow—Mother doesn’t like their sedgy flavor.
From A Scout of To-day by Isabel Hornibrook
Thereupon they all three journeyed forth together, until they came to a sedgy marsh, and there they found a white man.
From Folk-Lore and Legends: Oriental by Charles John Tibbitts
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 Mayne Reid
