In every case one or more priestesses are present, and take the usual precautions, such as the placing of lemon and sasá reed under the house, against the approach of evil spirits.
The shaft of this arrow consists of a reed of bamboo[6] about 8 millimeters in diameter and somewhat over a meter long, with a bamboo head.
I have seen others provided with sa-sá reed in anticipation of wounding some over-bold spirits.
Although the wound inflicted by the reed does not kill the demon, yet it is very slow to heal and is said to be at times incurable.
The priest, also, frequently carries a sharpened sá sá reed in the hope of encountering some overbold demon.
Brother Reed remained another year on the Platteville District, but during that year it retained only two charges that are at the present writing included within the bounds of the Wisconsin Conference.
Brother Reedwas a young man of great promise, but his career was of short duration.
But in this work, as well as in whatever may be assigned him, Brother Reed is a grand success, and will accomplish his task.
Reed were appointed, and had a year of great prosperity.
After this date, the labors of Brother Reedfell within other Conferences, where doubtless a record will be made of them.
They bore no distinctive character, or apparent difference to the Rockhampton tribes, and were armed with reed speers and wommerahs.
They dropped all their spears in the "stampede," some of which, reed and jagged, were taken home as trophies.
They used reed spears pointed with four jagged prongs, and also hooks and lines.
At each trip of the shuttle, the heavy reed is drawn back toward the weaver to push the last thread of the woof or filling firmly into place.
One separates the warp threads; one drives the shuttle between them; and one swings the reed against the filling thread just put in.
But this he could not accomplish, for his friend Lysias paced restlessly up and down by him as he sat, and as often as he put the reed to the papyrus disturbed him with enquiries about the recluse, the sculptor, and their rescued protegee.
Sacred pictures which represent our Saviour wearing the crown of thorns, place this reed in His hands as given Him in mockery for a kingly Mace.
Street hawkers, in Autumn, offer as Bulrushes the tall, round spikes of the Great Reed Mace, which is not a true Rush.
Indian reed or grass, with hollow-jointed stem, and of hard texture.
Calamus aromaticus of Roman authors, and probably the sweet calamus and sweet cane of Scripture, but not the fragrant lemon-grass of India: a genus of palms whose stems make canes or rattans: the reed pen used by the ancients in writing.
In November, 1875, his experiments showed him that the vibrations created in a reed by the human voice could be transmitted in such a way as to reproduce words and sounds.
The reed or fourth cavity of the calf's stomach retains its power of coagulating milk even after it has been taken from the animal.
Neither the many-plies nor the reed contained a single grain.
At this moment a small fair hand gleamed in the water before him, vainly clasping the idle waves, as if reaching for the broken reed that had so deceived its hope.
There was one who having inserted a shepherd's reed in his staff, played thereon and sang with his voice, not the pious psalms of the church, but the unholy madrigals of the sinful and profane.
Eva, humbly, "thou little knowest the broken reed on which thou leanest.
If only he had cared for the song of the reed by the river!
And she was only a female thing--a reed of the river, songless, and blown by the wind as the rest were.
Her mouth trembled, her whole frame shook like a reed in the wind.
As the river-reed to the god, so she had thought that her brief span of life might be to the immortality of his.
She lived as a reed torn up from the root may live by the winds that waft it, by the birds that carry it, by the sands that draw its fibers down into themselves, to root afresh whether it will or no.
It was agreed, and Reed took the chair which Drew had occupied, as it was conveniently opposite to that in which Armstrong was seated.
And after that there was silence, broken only by a sad sigh from Fan; which meant that she knew it and always had known it, but had gone on hoping against hope that the fragile reed would not break to pierce that loved one.
And she had married an artist--a reed that would grow "nevermore again as a reed with the reeds by the river!
She was like a reed shaken by the wind-- so fragile and so sensitive!
The true gods sigh for the cost and pain,-- For the reed which grows nevermore again As a reed with the reeds in the river.
The reed is not made fast in the bone, but is held up by the lips, and plays loose in the smaller end of the stock; while the stock, with the horn hanging on its larger end, is held by the hands in playing.
Apparently it was supposed that just as the two sides of the split reed came together and coalesced after being held apart, so the dislocated bones would come together and fit into their proper places.
When the reed is split lengthwise, the cells come into view, together with their provisions, the egg lying on the paste, or even the budding larva.
A short length of reed is planted perpendicularly in a large earthenware pan filled with sand.
I have at hand some long bits of reed in the hollow of which an Osmia, the Three-horned Osmia, has stacked her cells, bounded by earthen partitions.
As for the controls which I was careful to leave, they confirm the fact that I had males in the part near the orifice of the reed and females in the part near the knot closing the channel.
The two halves of the reed are then restored to their original position and firmly bound with a few turns of wire.
They will give the huqqa with the reed in to members of their own subcaste, and without the reed to any Kayasth.
The mats of sirki reed with which they cover their own movable leaf huts are models of neatness and simplicity and many of these are sold to cart-drivers.
In 1840, the libraries obtained better accommodations by the erection of Reed Hall, which was so far completed that the books were shelved just before the Commencement.
The Travelling Post Office The roving breezes come and go, the reed beds sweep and sway, The sleepy river murmurs low, and loiters on its way, It is the land of lots o' time along the Castlereagh.
All that earth holds is now alike indifferent to the dead; the pale, wind-shaken reed is neither more nor less important than the steadfast and enduring oak.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
