broken reed

The seal for the city shows broken reeds or cane.

But they can't do that if they come down to the broken reeds among their number.

In moments only the broken reeds still testified to the fact that only hours before a girl had died there.

'Ye are true men and not broken reeds to lean on.

Under the gray sky, pools of stagnant water flickered among dead grasses and broken reeds.

I felt that these men would be broken reeds to which to trust in any vital contest for betterment of social and industrial conditions.

Though traditional heroines have always had sidekicks, she said, they were "either minor players, broken reeds or snakes."

His knees were quaking slightly as he squatted beneath a sheaf of broken reeds.

When I turned back toward the creek, knight and Neut were gone, leaving only broken reeds to show their path.

A student, Florence Wolsky, spotted two broken reeds and began digging.

This harmonica was extremely well constructed, with no broken reeds, and every note was pure and in perfect pitch.

A few patches of broken reeds ("weavers") can be restored by inserting weavers in the cavity (see accompanying illustration).

While Margo stared, the new priests broke the reed scepters violently in half, then carried them one by one and tied the broken reeds to the gilded pine tree.

Students had to find lengths of canals dug, weights of stones, lengths of broken reeds, areas of fields, numbers of bricks used in a construction, and so on.

Inevitably (in Miller's rationale) the boys are broken reeds: Happy is a vain playboy who works in a department store, while Biff, worshipped by his father as a child, has degenerated into a petty thief.

But the Baymen could beat it even in canoes, their paddles pounding the water like great engines, grimaces upon their hairy ragged faces, the canoe bows planing dangerously, crashing through white water and broken reeds.

Most recently he has been engaged on a large mural decoration, best fitted, perhaps, for a music room, showing Pan seated on a tree trunk by a lake, making into a pipe the broken reeds in his hand after Syrinx eluded him.

The guards in the boats had traveled along the canals looking for a broken area in the reeds that would indicate someone entering one of the blocks of forest, then they would circle the block to see if they could find more broken reeds indicating the exit point.