Every reed bed was promptly investigated, every dry nullah was explored.

Wait... up ahead... there it is, see it? she said, moving toward the reed bed.

We raked the reed bed fore and aft, and combed the long grass in every direction.

For an hour we raked the reed bed with shot, hoping to drive them from cover.

Bittern taking off out of a reed bed.

Something glinted down and to one side, in the reed bed close to her, and she turned.

She'd found the knife he'd thrown at her, had gone into the reed bed to find it.

Half a mile beyond it was a similar one and reed bed, but no such splendid rock reservoir.

The shell bumped against the reed bed and Dom leapt lightly ashore, leaving it drifting in the little lagoon.

The swimming hole was small, enclosed on the opposite side by a submerged island covered with a dense reed bed.

He went overboard in spite of the crocodiles, and managed to swim below water to the reed bed at the side.

They built a 180 foot long reed bed in a horseshoe shape and planted it with reeds, bulrushes and yellow flag.

Then he saw the gun, lying at the edge of the reed bed, a hand's breadth from the dark, glinting water.

They waded back into the river, swam the short distance of the pool, then continued upstream, breaking through the shallow, muddy reed bed.

Having reached the rising bank he had climbed so laboriously before, Ross miscalculated and tumbled back, rolling down into the mud of the reed bed.

Presently they had reached the border of the reed bed, with Frank still leading, though the rest of the scouts pressed close on his heels.