All those little hillocks of marsh hay and reeds are muskrat nests," explained Mr Ross.
From among the reedsand rushes the loud calls of the geese were coming.
Heavy pressure flue voicing was practically unknown, and in reeds even Willis used very moderate pressures, save for a Tuba in the case of really large buildings.
The reeds are affected differently, the expansion of their tongues by heat causing them to flatten sufficiently to counteract the sharpening named above.
Reeds that are leathered cannot be depended upon; atmospheric changes affect them and put them out of tune.
Few persons fully understand the reason why reeds fail to stand in tune as they ought to.
The lower ends of the reeds were closed and the upper open and on a level, so that the mouth could easily pass from one pipe to another.
It is there stated that reeds should never be used alone, but that a Stopped Diapason or other rank of flue pipes must always be drawn with them to improve the tone quality.
He has taken the Willis chorusreeds and by doubling the wind pressures and increasing the loading and thickness of tongues, has produced results of surpassing magnificence.
It is the chief reason why reeds fail to stand in tune.
Organ pipes are divided into three families--Flues, Reeds and Diaphones.
Many French Orchestral reeds are refined and beautiful in quality and the larger Trumpets and Tubas, though assertive and blatant, are not unmusical.
He was the first to recognize that the advantage of heavy wind pressure for the reeds lay not merely in the increase of power, but also in the improvement of the quality of tone.
Few people have ever tried to reckon the number of kinds of sedges and reeds by the river, and it would be difficult to do so.
A fox helped the fun by trotting up and down in the reeds uncertain which way to go, and flushing the birds as he did so.
As the men advanced we had a regular rise of wild pheasants, rocketing up from the reedsin every direction high over the oaks and chestnuts.
Like their ancestors in China and the Caucasus, they prefer the osier-beds and reeds by the river to the higher and drier ground.
There, among dead reeds and flags, the pale green cresses appear very early in the spring, for the water is always warmer which rises from the bosom of the earth.
Common reedsare also increasing there, with big water-docks, and on the edge of the cam-shedding of the lawn which fronts my house some of the tallest giant hemlocks which I have ever seen, have suddenly appeared.
In this, too, were found the tooth of a crocodile and the bones of a spiny pike, and in other masses of clay the very reeds and bits of the trees that grew there.
The filled reeds are hung under the roofs of the huts, and when a person desires to treat his friends very hospitably the reeds are broken and the contents devoured.
It is no uncommon bird, haunting the sides of ponds and rivers where there is covert, and the reeds and sedges of moors.
At that moment the wind began to agitate the reeds and produced a low musical sound.
The thirst for power, the desire to rule, the knowledge that causes brave and strong to bend and quiver like reeds in the Euphrates before the breeze that hurries down its stream.
Sargon, returning by a secret passage from strewing reeds on the floor above, had thus unwillingly interrupted an interview which his own instincts told him it was very dangerous to have witnessed.
But if it be the will of his ancestor Ashur to descend for him in a chariot of fire, and these reeds thus saturated should catch the flame, then must the Great King, if he be not overcome with wine and sleep, escape by yonder narrow staircase.
The river's a-wave With smooth paper-reeds grazing each other when prophet-winds rave: So the pen gives unborn generations their due and their part In thy being!
The joint association of the Brahman priest and the barber with marriages and other ceremonies has led to the saying, "As there are always reeds in a river so there is always a barber with a Brahman.
In addition to practising acrobatic feats and conjuring of a low class, they make articles of grass, straw and reeds for sale; and in the centre of the Punjab are said to act as Mirasis, though this is perhaps doubtful.
The multitudes of all reedsand rushes grow out of bounds.
For the multitudes of sedges, rushes, canes, and reeds were the appropriate lyre of the cold.
The landowner, if he is rather a gross man, believes these races of reeds are his.
Between the pasture and the wave, the many miles of rushes and reeds in England seem to escape that insistent ownership which has so changed (except for a few forests and downs) the aspect of England, and has in fact made the landscape.
The nest of Fondia erythrops occupies the centre of a bundle of reeds growing in shallow water, in which various grasses are roughly interwoven in the form of a cupola.
The nest is roughly constructed among the reeds and flags of some quiet pond or river bank.
They make their nests among reeds in muddy, boggy places, difficult of access to both man and beast, in which they lay four or five eggs.
Coots herd together in flocks; they make their nests on the reeds in the water, and lay from eight to fourteen eggs.
In situations incredibly difficult of access, especially on floating islands, scarcely over the water-line, they place their nests thickly together, supported among reeds and rushes.
During the daytime they hide themselves amid the reeds and flags, from which they do not emerge until the evening, when hunger forces them to seek their food.
The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe in the Nile, and while her maids were walking along the river's bank, she saw the basket among the reeds and sent her waiting-maid to bring it.
Then she placed it in the reeds by the bank of the river Nile, while his sister stayed near by to see what would happen to him.
It builds a rude nest among the reeds and flags, out of materials which surround it, and the female lays four or five eggs of a brownish olive.
The bamboo is a kind of reed; naturally I began to think of the reeds that grow here in France.
And now that we are quite alone under the sky, with no listeners except the bushes and the reeds by the edge of the Charente, let me tell you about my anxiety as to Lucien's present step, dear Eve.
The simplest of all ancient wind instruments is the rustic Pan's pipe (syrinx), usually formed of seven or eight hollow reeds fastened together with wax.
The Greek Pan's pipe has the reedsof equal length, the different notes being produced by the different positions of the natural joints of the reed.
The Roman syrinx had its lower edge sloping, the result of cutting off the reeds immediately below the natural joints.
The Cornal cocked an ear, drew down shaggy brows on his attention, and studied, musingly, the tune that hummed from the reeds below.
There existed, at the same time, the closely related order of the Giant Reeds (Calamites), whose strong trunks grew to a height of about fifty feet.
She had just taken her accustomed position, when the hedgehog, pushing the reeds aside, became aware of the strong scent on the margin of the pond.
The moorhen called again from the reeds near the ford, then flew away over the fire-flushed river and disappeared into the gloom; and a water-vole dropped with a gentle plash into the pool.
A moorhen splattered out from the willow-roots, and Brighteye crouched motionless, till he recognised that the noise made by the clumsy bird was almost as familiar to him as the rustle of the reeds in a breeze.
After creeping through the reeds to the water's edge, he proceeded a little way down the bank till he came to a spot where the view of the meadow-path was uninterrupted.
The gurgling call of a moorhen, mingling with the ripple of the stream over the ford, came from the reeds at a distant bend of the river.
Carefully searching every hole and corner in the bank, they drew down-stream around the bend, and at last struck the scent of the otters among the reeds below the pool.
The monk groaned again, and the three boys outside the reeds laughed with malicious glee.
The hill-side sloped very steeply to the broad bed of willows and reeds far below, making the way very bad for so heavy and inactive a man.
He stood perfectly still as he spoke, watching the deep crease in the valley, whose bottom was hidden by clumps of willow and beds of reeds with their dark purply waving blooms.
I not hear those reeds just taken by the wind, knocking against each other, the flat ones scraping all along the round ones?
But I said that I knew this Roman shore from a boy, and that sometimes there was no bar at the mouth of the Incastro, so that a vessel might just slip into the pool where the reeds grow.
Immediately within view were two large sheets of water around the margin of which reeds were growing, but nevertheless these ponds were exceedingly shallow.
One peculiarity is observable in the Darling, that neither are there any reeds growing in its channel or on the flats.
Some three or four couple visit my residence at Grange yearly, and remain in the high reeds at the bottom of the creek.
It was covered with wild fowl of various kinds, and there were several patches of reeds in which they were feeding.
This beautiful warbler is common in south-eastern Australia, wherever there are reeds by the banks of the rivers or creeks, but where they were wanting its voice was silent.
This bird is very common on the Murray, where birds of the same kinds have such extensive patches of reeds in which to hide themselves.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reeds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
