2352 examples of reed in sentences

We'll chant our woes upon an oaten reed, Whiles bleating flock upon their supper feed.

The roof is of reed thatch edged with tarred felt.

Very shortly after, however, it appears that Lord Pierrepont was a broken reed upon which to rely.

In each of these great States nations have been united under a common law; and where the wisdom of the central government has not "broken the bruised reed or quenched the smoking flax" of national life, the nations have been not only willing but anxious to join in the work of their State.

reed, thread, rope of sand, house of cards.

[Fr.], corno Inglese^, bassoon, double bassoon, contrafagotto^, serpent, bass clarinet; bagpipes, union pipes; musette, ocarina, Pandean pipes; reed instrument; sirene^, pipe, pitch-pipe; sourdet^; whistle, catcall; doodlesack^, harmoniphone^. horn, bugle, cornet, cornet-a-pistons, cornopean^, clarion, trumpet, trombone, ophicleide^; French horn, saxophone, sax

[Vibrating bars] reed, tuning fork, triangle, Jew's harp, musical box, harmonicon^, xylophone.

Shamed be the hands that idly fold, And lips that woo the reed's accord, When laggard Time the hour has tolled For true with false and new with old To fight the battles of the Lord!

The oncoming leaders through the medium of certain messengers and by placing their letters in coffins with dead bodies, in baskets full of fruit, or the reed traps of bird-catchers, learned all that was being done in the city and formed their plans accordingly.

Marriage and Genetics, Reed, Galton Press, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Besides, he had all a doctor's dislike of those terrors of the unseen world, with which some men are wont to oppress still more failing nature, and break the bruised reed.

Chief Justice Taylor of North Carolina, in his decision in the case of the State vs. Reed, in 1823, Hawkes'

Chief Justice Taylor of North Carolina, in his decision in the case of the State vs. Reed, in 1823, Hawkes' N.C. Reps. 454, says, "a law of paramount, obligation to the statute, was violated by the offenceCOMMON LAW, founded upon the law of nature, and confirmed by revelation."

The younger officers who were immediately attached to the person of the chief, and among the choicest spirits of the Revolution, including Hamilton, Reed, Pinckney, Laurens, and Lee, were for leaving Chew's house to itself, or of turning the siege into a blockade, by stationing in its vicinity a body of troops to watch the movements of the garrison, and pressing on with the column in pursuit of the flying enemy.

R78858, 21May51, Antoine Redier (A) REED, THOMAS HARRISON.

R73735, 25Jan51, Thomas H. Reed (A) REEVE, WINNIFRED. SEE Babcock, Winnifred (Eaton) RÉGNIER, HENRI FRANÇOIS JOSEPH DE.

Anything was preferable to the life he led, and though he grew pale as ashes and his limbs quivered like a reed when, toward the latter part of February, he received a telegram to come home at once, as Ethelyn was very sick, he hailed the news as a message of deliverance, whereby he could escape from hated Washington a few days sooner.

LYDIA A. PRATT and MISS LIZZIE REED L.M'S. 60.00 Wollaston.

Most of us then set off for the Keys, where the plank and shooks were put together in a raft, which we with pieces of boards paddled over to our island; when we consulted the best plan, either to build a raft large enough for us all to go on, or a boat; but the shooks having three or four nails in each, and having a piece of large reed or bamboo, previously found, of which we made pins, we concluded to make a boat.

OBOE, a treble-sounding musical instrument of the reed class, to which the bassoon is reckoned the bass.

In addition to the drum formerly mentioned, and large shellsCassis or Tritonwith a hole at one end, used as trumpets, we saw a small Pandean pipe made of portions of reed of different lengths, and a tube of bamboo, two feet long, which gives out a sound like a horn when blown into. FOOD.

The arrows are precisely similar to those used by the Torres Strait Islanders, consisting of a head of coconut wood, nine to eighteen inches in length, shipped into a light reed 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 feet in length, and secured by a neat cane plaiting.

To the Senate of the United States: In compliance with the resolution of the Senate of the 5th December, I herewith transmit copies of the proceedings in the case of the inquiry into the official conduct of Silas Reed, principal surveyor of Missouri and Illinois, together with all the complaints against him and all the evidence taken in relation thereto.

A copy of the report which he has made, and also the defense of Dr. Reed, accompanies the papers.

To the Senate of the United States: I herewith transmit certain documents connected with the case of Silas Reed, and which were inadvertently omitted in the packet of papers which accompanied my message to the Senate on this subject.

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