1 A reed hut on fantastic piles above the mud of a jungle river.
2 She had never seen her husband in this mood before; and her gentle system of ethics seemed to bend like a reed in the surges of such passions.
3 Next comes for his prize he who cut the cord; he last, who pierced the mast with his winged reed.
4 A present deity suffered not his hand to stray, and the loud whistling reed came driven through his belly and flanks.
5 She trembled like a reed, poor thing, and leant against the table perfectly bewildered.
6 Red Indians the game was; a reed with a note wrapped up in a pebble.
7 And, with an imperious motion, the frail young man of twenty years bent the thickset and sturdy porter like a reed, and brought him to his knees in the mire.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII—MANY INTERROGATION POINTS WITH REGARD TO A C... 8 When they reached a little marsh Levin would have driven by, but Stepan Arkadyevitch, with the experienced eye of a sportsman, at once detected reeds visible from the road.
9 She made one circuit round the clump of reeds, was beginning a second, and suddenly quivered with excitement and became motionless.
10 The snipe were floating continually in the air over the reeds.
11 He wandered all about the reeds, but Laska did not believe he had shot it, and when he sent her to find it, she pretended to hunt for it, but did not really.
12 The marsh could be recognized by the mist which rose from it, thicker in one place and thinner in another, so that the reeds and willow bushes swayed like islands in this mist.
13 Passing the sleeping peasants and reaching the first reeds, Levin examined his pistols and let his dog off.
14 On shore the ice-tipped reeds clattered in the wind, and oak twigs with stubborn last leaves hung against a milky sky.
15 She stared at the mud-browned chilly water, the floating gray reeds.