Her chief literary work during this period consisted of Sacred DramasMoses in the Bulrushes, David and Goliath, Belshazzar, and Daniel.

This Picture does the story express Of Moses in the Bulrushes.

Three months she hid him; then she wrought With Bulrushes this ark, and brought Him in it to this river's side, Carefully looking far and wide To see that no Egyptian eye Her ark-hid treasure should espy.

Here they found two empty huts, containing all the curiously-worked utensils used by the Indians of that district—bowls, trays, and dishes, formed of calabashes and carved wood or bark; and beautiful baskets constructed of crabshells, ingeniously wrought together, with well-woven mats of grass and bulrushes, dyed of various brilliant colors.

There was a clicking of pulleys as the three appeared upon the bayou's margin, and Baptiste pointed out, in the deep shadow of a great oak, the Isabella, moored among the bulrushes, and just spreading her sails for departure.

Its venomous denizens slipped away through the bulrushes; the cattle roaming freely upon its hardened surface trampled the superabundant undergrowth.

And future geologists would have foundthey may find yet, if, which God forbid, England should become barbarous and the trees be thrown out of cultivationinstead of fossil Lepidodendra and Sigillariae, Calamites and ferns, fossil ashes and oaks, alders and poplars, bulrushes and reeds.

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.

The men are generally naked; but the women make a kind of petticoat of bulrushes, which they comb like hemp, and throw the skin of a deer over their shoulders.

Four miles to the south-east we came upon a pool of brackish water, surrounded with bulrushes, in a channel coming from the south of the Hamersley Range, again apparently offering us a chance of getting to the southward.

Not those exactly, it being thought proper to keep him in a theologic mood of mind till after sundown, but he should have David and Goliath and Moses in the bulrushes with pleasure; then Moses and Goliath and David again; after that, David and Goliath and Moses, by way of variety.

The bay of Puno grows quantities of totoras, giant bulrushes sometimes twelve feet long.

Around the house ran a boldly-carved stone parapet, bearing the herons and bulrushes which were the cognisance of the noble race for which the mansion was built.

She searched between reeds and bulrushes; tramped and tramped on the muddy shore, never thinking of how deep her foot sank, and how wet she had become.

She had found him, as Pharaoh's daughter had found Moses in the bulrushes; she had taught him to speak, to think, to love.

Coming up, just as my head got level with the floor, what should I see but Miss Jemimy pour all the sugar into her bag and whip the bowl back on the shelf, and turn round and face me as innocent as Moses in the bulrushes.

"Because Moses was a little thing when they found him, and then the ark of bulrushes was something like a birdsnest.

"And do you know about his being found in the bulrushes, and the story of the king of Ethiopia's daughter?" "The king of Egypt, you mean, do you not, uncle Oloff?" cried Kitty, with another little laugh.

He replied, "Nothing but decayed piles of bulrushes in this place, of straw in that, and of fire brands in a third."

It stood on a knoll, and in the distance, almost hidden in bulrushes, was the last arm of the lake.

It was little more than wide enough for the boat, with extended oars, to pass,shallow, too, and bordered with bulrushes and water-weeds, which, in some places, quite overgrew the surface of the river from bank to bank.

There were the Patriarchs, with flowing beards and in gorgeous attire; Abraham, offering up Isaac; Joseph, with his coat of many colors, thrown into a pit by his brethren; Noah's ark on an ocean of waters; Pharaoh and his host in the Red Sea; Rebecca at the well, and Moses in the bulrushes.

The stream fed, through little sluices, a big, square pond, full, I was told, in summer of bulrushes and water-lilies.

The place was encumbered with fallen branches, tangled brushwood, dead ferns; and wherever the little stream had spread itself there was a boggy hollow, rank with bulrushes, and glorious with the starry marsh marigold.

I am lost from a ship of which my fatherHeaven rest him!is General, and I am picked up among the weeds on the sea-shore, like Moses in the bulrushes.