Now, Prince,' said the Magpie, 'the three bulrushes are behind that wall.
The old woman sent after it at once, and when she questioned the magpies the crippled one was the only one who knew where the three bulrushes were.
As he rode along one of the bulrushes happened to knock against something.
Small lakes of accumulated surface-water are passed in depressions having no outlet; thickets and bulrushes are growing around the edges, and the surfaces of some are fairly black with multitudes of wild-ducks.
And on the opposite side of the pond-like expanse and apparently grounded among the bulrushes they saw their canoe.
Now we enter the old swamp lot, thick-set with bristling bulrushes and bare and spindling brooms of iron-weed.
Mr. Redwing, and flew over to the nest in the bulrushes where Mrs. Redwing was fussing about in a very important manner.
Then the Merry Little Breeze waked all the other Merry Little Breezes, and away they all danced across the Green Meadows to the Smiling Pool and stole in among the bulrushes behind Peter Rabbit to see what he was about.
The more Mr. Peter looked and listened, the more certain he became that something very important must have happened over in the bulrushes on the edge of the Smiling Pool.
In the center of this region of bulrushes and stunted forests is an open sheet of shallow water, Lake Enedjee.
The stunted forests and the bulrushes here are traversed by a maze of narrow waterways, just wide enough for a punt to pass along.
Elsewhere extends a great intricate network of streams with endless fields of bulrushes and stunted woods.
And all the Merry Little Breezes danced away across the Green Meadows to the swamp where the bulrushes grow to see the new speckled egg in the dear little nest where Mrs. Redwing was singing for joy.
We must see it," cried the Merry Little Breezes, and away they all ran to the swamp where the bulrushes grow.
When the Merry Little Breezes reached the swamp where the bulrushes grow they found poor Mrs. Redwing in great distress.
The bulrushes nodded, as if they too were thinking of this.
Mr. and Mrs. Redwing had come back to the bulrushes from their winter home way down in the warm Southland.
He was sitting among the bulrushes on the edge of the Smiling Pool, for the lily-pads were not yet big enough for him to sit on comfortably.
Then go hide in the bulrusheswhere you can watch him, but where he cannot see you.
If he could have looked over in the bulrushesand have seen Little Joe Otter and Billy Mink and Jerry Muskrat watching him and tickling and laughing, he would not have been so sure that next time he would catch Little Joe Otter.
Temporary hunting-huts in summer are merely cross-sticks covered with coarse mats made by laying bulrushes side by side, and knotting them at intervals with cord or grass.
Once or twice before reaching the depot, we saw one or two places with dried-up bulrushes growing in the bed, and water may have existed there in the sand.
On the 27th of May we camped close to a red hill on the south bank of the river; just below it, was another spring, at which a few reeds and some bulrushes were growing.
Many of these glens had fine rock-holes as well as running springs; most of the channels were full of bulrushesand the peculiar Stemodia.
Over on the end of an old log among the bulrushes sat Jerry Muskrat just where Peter had left him.
The bulrushes are tied together so as to form a flat surface some six feet in breadth and from ten to twenty feet in length.
The passengers and boatmen sit upon a large square bundle of bulrushes forming the essential part of the boat, which the outward cage serves only to keep in place, and by its pointed extremities to favour progression.
How little idea had she that the weeping babe in that ark ofbulrushes was yet to be Jehovah's instrument in shaking the land of Egypt to its very centre!
And when she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
Over in the bulrushes on the other side of the Smiling Pool two little scamps in brown bathing suits waited and watched for the great fright they had planned for Grandfather Frog, when they had sent Longlegs to try to catch him.
And over in the bulrushes on the other side, Little Joe Otter and Billy Mink nudged each other and clapped their hands over their mouths to keep from laughing aloud.
They reached the Smiling Pool before Longlegs, who had taken a roundabout way, and they hid among the bulrushes where they could see and not be seen.
The guns were next placed along a line of gigantic clumps of bulrushes which extended for miles with narrow glades, and thick, matted jungle between.
Once it spread out into a lake, in which was a little island covered with tall bulrushes and purple loosestrife.
From the rank undergrowth of brushwood and bulrushes rise clumps of cocoanut palms, their dark shaggy crowns strangely massive above the meagre stems through which the distant horizon gleams palely.
The same worm, however, is also found at the base of the leaves of bulrushes and in other like situations, and there is no evidence that it actually feeds on the sponge.
We shortly afterwards crossed a hollow, similar to that Mr. Hume had described, in which bulrushes had taken the place of reeds.
Its bed was choked up with bulrushesor the polygonum, and its banks were level with the country on either side, or nearly so.
The country continued the same as that we had passed over from the junction, being subject to flood, and having patches of bulrushes and reeds upon it.
They went out in bands to gather the flags, reeds, and bulrushes which they needed.
The flags, reeds, andbulrushes were twisted separately into small strings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bulrushes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
