Amongst other plants used for a similar purpose were the bulrush and reed, in connection with-which may be quoted the Irish tale of the rushes and cornstalks that "turn into horses the moment you bestride them."

Rubens, together with the earlier Italian painters, depict the reed-mace or bulrush (Typha latifolia) as the rod given to Him to carry; a plant still put by Catholics into the hands of statues of Christ.

It swayed back and forward like a stalk of rye or a cat-o'nine-tails (bulrush) with a bobolink on it.

I pulled a bulrush of about ten feet.

A bulrush tripped her, whereupon she saw A smiling babby in a wad o' straw.

At our noon halt the main river had ceased to flow, but a tributary coming from the north-east had a small stream still running in the bottom of a muddy channel down which the recent floods had brought flags and portions of bulrush, the only instance throughout the district in which we had observed them.

6th July. Started at 7.30 a.m., and in an hour came upon a pool of water in one of the numerous channels into which the Fortescue is here divided, and at seven miles struck the bulrush spring passed on the 11th June.

Is it to bow down his head like a bulrush?

The Observation is that "Repentance for an hour, or a day, is not worth a bulrush!"

"Where Will-o'-the-wisps and glow-worms shine, In bulrush and in brake; Where waving mosses shroud the pine, And the cedar grows, and the poisonous vine Is spotted like the snake.

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Once I saw a ploughman and his team of oxen being ferried across the lake on a bulrush raft.

Choosing the slenderest branch of a tree, the parrot fastens a bulrush of about two spans long to its outer extremity, at the depending end of which rush it weaves its nest in a most beautiful manner, suspended like a ball, and having only one passage for entering.

The patair is like a huge bulrush, and the elephants are very fond of its succulent, juicy, cool-looking leaves.

Matter it is of mirthful memory To think, when thou wert early in the field, How doughtily small Jeffrey ran at thee A-tilt, and broke a bulrush on thy shield.

5 Its bulrush in his canal he lifted not up.

6 The roots of the bulrush were carried away.

On rifted Rocks, the Dragon's late Abodes, The green Reed trembles, and the Bulrush nods.

" "The Negro need not bow his head like a bulrush in the presence of a race whose records are as stained by crime and dishonor as theirs.

A Father who has told us what that worship is like. 'Is this (God asked the Jews of old) the fast which I have chosen? Is it a day for a man to afflict his soul, and bow down his head like a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him (playing at being sad, while God has not made him sad)?

Matter it is of mirthful memory To think, when thou wert early in the field, How doughtily small Jeffrey ran at thee A-tilt, and broke a bulrush on thy shield.

Isa. 58:5-7] Can such be the fast which I choose, A day when a man mortifies himself? To droop one's head like a bulrush, And to lie down in sackcloth and ashes?

No congregation of frogs at twilight gather to the green edges of the unfettered pond to sing their Old Hundred, led by venerable Signor Cronker, in his bright, buskin doublet, mounted on a floating stump, and beating time with a bulrush.

On rifted Rocks, the Dragon's late Abodes, The green Reed trembles, and the Bulrush nods.

What tho' rough stones the naked soil o'erspread, Or marshy bulrush rear its wat'ry head, No foreign food thy teeming ewes shall fear, No touch contagious spread its influence here.