reed-fringed

The house stood on a gentle rise, and in front the trees had been thinned so that across the smooth lawn you looked over stretching paddocks, dotted with gum-trees, and broken by the silver gleam of a reed-fringed lagoon.

Archive 2009-03-01 2009

Most clustered around the spring-fed, reed-fringed pool that occupied the depression in the center of the canyon.

The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010

While for anguish at my deed of shame, hath Leda sought her death by hanging; and on the deep, to weary wandering doomed my lord hath met his end; and Castor and his brother, twin glory of their native land, are vanished from men's sight, leaving the plains that shook to their galloping steeds, and the course beside reed-fringed Eurotas, where those youthful athletes strove.

Helen 2008

While for anguish at my deed of shame, hath Leda sought her death by hanging; and on the deep, to weary wandering doomed my lord hath met his end; and Castor and his brother, twin glory of their native land, are vanished from men's sight, leaving the plains that shook to their galloping steeds, and the course beside reed-fringed Eurotas, where those youthful athletes strove.

Helen 2008

Halfway between Elmora and the Amadician border, Serana sat in a flat grassy valley among forested hills, with at least a mile to the trees in any direction save his, and a small, reed-fringed lake fed by two wide streams lay between him and the village.

Knife of Dreams Jordan, Robert, 1948- 2005

I turned a corner and there it stood by the side of a dark, reed-fringed, and heron-haunted lake.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

I turned a corner and there it stood by the side of a dark, reed-fringed, and heron-haunted lake.

Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2004

Beyond this there was a reed-fringed lake with water-fowl and a smaller pond with water-lilies and goldfish.

Here Lies Gloria Mundy Mitchell, Gladys, 1901- 1982

The second brook, still and silent like the rest, was a shallow, reed-fringed, meandering serpent of silver.

The Virgin In The Ice Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1982

Panama hat and the dusky Egyptian, whose dark skin and closely-swathed robes gave her the look of some Old Testament character, a look borne out by the surroundings of reed-fringed river and plumy, tufted palms.

Afterwards Kathlyn Rhodes