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  • Bulrushes, Baltic rush, cattails, burreed, and reed grass are common marsh plants.

    Ecoregions of Nevada (EPA) 2009

  • Bulrushes fared worse, with concentrations of over 552 milligrams of cyanide and 15 milligrams of mercury per (dry) kilogram.

    Fish Kill at Lake Chapala 2005

  • Bulrushes fared worse, with concentrations of over 552 milligrams of cyanide and 15 milligrams of mercury per (dry) kilogram.

    Lake Chapala: Can Mexico's largest lake be saved? 2000

  • Bulrushes fared worse, with concentrations of over 552 milligrams of cyanide and 15 milligrams of mercury per (dry) kilogram.

    Lake Chapala: Can Mexico's largest lake be saved? 2000

  • Street hawkers, in Autumn, offer as Bulrushes the tall, round spikes of the Great Reed Mace, which is not a true Rush.

    Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

  • Moses in the Bulrushes, and next Sunday it would be Jonah and the

    The Profits of Religion, Fifth Edition Upton Sinclair 1923

  • I taught them out of a book of lessons; and one Sunday it would be Moses in the Bulrushes, and next Sunday it would be Jonah and the Whale, and next Sunday it would be Joshua blowing down the walls of Jericho.

    The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation 1918

  • A little wooden rocker, another small, straight wooden chair, a hanging wall-pocket decorated with purple roses, a hanging bookshelf composed of three thin boards strung together with maroon picture cord, a violently colored picture-card of "Moses in the Bulrushes" framed in straws and red worsted, and bright-blue paper shades at the windows.

    A Voice in the Wilderness Grace Livingston Hill 1906

  • By and by the children, having heard about Moses in the Bulrushes and Daniel in the Lion's Den, came straggling home in an evil humor.

    The Hill of Dreams Arthur Machen 1905

  • Lady Owbridge and Mrs. Jack Eden to look at Moses in the Bulrushes -- a picture --

    The Gay Lord Quex A Comedy in Four Acts Arthur Wing Pinero 1894

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