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Examples
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It was not long before sunset when Bran came again to the reed-grown marge of Dagon's Mere.
Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006
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Like harbingers of Fate a wavering line of herons flapped slowly away toward the reed-grown banks of the river.
The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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Like harbingers of Fate a wavering line of herons flapped slowly away toward the reed-grown banks of the river.
The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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Like harbingers of Fate a wavering line of herons flapped slowly away toward the reed-grown banks of the river.
The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989
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Beneath them moved the unruffled river, gliding around the reed-grown shores of marshy islands, the haunt of alligators, and betwixt the bordering expanse of wide, wet meadows, studded with island-like clumps of pine and palmetto, and bounded by the sunny verge of distant forests.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various
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They are shallow, reed-grown, and briny, and they are bordered by mud flats and quicksands between which there is little to choose.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson
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A slimy reed-grown creek opened out to starboard, and evil miasma arose from the rotting tree trunks across its mouth; the entire scene was one of dreary, soul-searing repulsiveness and made a sorry jest of the strongly stockaded trading post whose defensive armament could be plainly seen peeping over a woven cane parapet.
Gold Out of Celebes Aylward Edward Dingle
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A thin film of ice bordered the flat, reed-grown lake.
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We turned to the right behind the last island, searched out the reed-grown opening to the stream, and paddled serenely and philosophically against the current.
The Forest Stewart Edward White 1909
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The ancient red-brick pile rises out of its reed-grown moat with that air of mystery which age and seeming neglect only can impart.
Secret Chambers and Hiding Places Historic, Romantic, & Legendary Stories & Traditions About Hiding-Holes, Secret Chambers, Etc. Allan Fea 1908
hernesheir commented on the word reed-grown
"...a tract of woodland and three reed-grown lakes: such was White's Selbourne, little different from a thousand English villages." - reference to Gilbert White's 1789 book The Natural History and Antiquities of Selbourne, in an article in the British agricultural journal The Countryman, Autumn, 1955, p.43.
January 28, 2010