Meanings of slender reed in English

And why do the hills re-echo the notes of the slender reed?

Too slow to keep even this slender reed of a man alive.

The girl who had been that slender reed was gone.

You see that beautiful, slender reed in the black dress?'

The evidence was a very slender reed.

When the morning came there stood the slender reed, glittering with dewdrops, and softly swaying in the breeze.

The slender reed has no fear of being broken, for it is planted beside the waters of Love.

Their bows and arrows are but indifferent; the former being very slight, and the latter only made of a slender reed, pointed with hard wood.

The slender reed through which Philosophy breathed her first musical whisperings is laid by, and the sacred lyre of Theology is silent or little heeded.

One of these arrows, formed merely of a piece of slender reed tipped with bone or iron, is sufficient to destroy the most powerful animal.

A Giant Oak stood near a brook in which grew some slender Reeds.

They have slender reeds with tight rolls of brown paper fastened at one end.

She sat as erect as one of the slender reeds among which the canoe was hidden.

The walls of the third chamber were hung with a kind of tapestry made of slender reeds, laid in perpendicular rows.

"It is a slender reed," Gilbert said, "for so mighty an issue to rest upon."

In places there were nameless aquatic plants with purple flowers, their stalks and roots mixed in with wide flat leaves and slender reeds.