They were nearly naked, wading through the reedy marsh toward a pair of rounded silhouettes, one larger-its smooth flanks glistening except where a sooty stain marred one side.

The adjacent coast of the mainland was uninhabited, a reedy marsh given over to the grim beasts that haunted it.

Three In the darkness before dawn, an unaccustomed sound disturbed the solitude that slumbered over the reedy marshes and the misty waters of the coast.

"The cities of men know them not; but the waste" places know them, the reedy marshes, the stony deserts, the hills, and the caverns.

The spring thaw, that brought renewed plant growth and the great reedy marshes, invited the uncountable numbers of migrating fowl to stop, build nests, and proliferate.

Importance Recognized From the reedy marshes of New Jersey to the Pacific flyways of California, the country's wetlands are increasingly recognized in scientific studies as critically sensitive areas.

It was broad daylight, but a cold, hueless mist lay everywhere, shrouding the reedy marshes, and hanging like a ghostly curtain on the path he must follow to Les Hiboux.

How there supposedly were fifty sisters called the Danaids who ventured out of the reedy marshes of the Nile delta to bring the gift of water to the most arid region of the Peloponnese.

That was why, after he delivered up his stone to Miss Gower, he checked that no one was watching him and cut away across the dunes and round towards the other side of the reedy marsh.

Like all Marshwiggles, who enjoy their privacy, he lives in a wigwam in the reedy marshes.