bulrush

• A dirty brownish haze thickened in the western sky, turning the sun orange and casting odd-colored shadows over the stands of reedmace, bulrush, and spikegrass that lined the creek. —  May, Julian - Boreal Moon 2 - Ironcrown Moon
• The giant was in the midst of it; but weak as the bulrush were the mighty limbs of Maximus before the rushing gale. —  Ungava
• The name bulrush is more correctly applied to Scirpus lacustris_, a member of a different family (Cyperaceae), a common plant in wet places, with tall spongy, usually leafless stems, bearing a tuft of many-flowered spikelets. —  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
• A man may "bow down his head as a bulrush," or fast, or clothe himself in sackcloth, when he is an utter stranger to that "repentance to salvation not to be repented of." —  The Ancient Church Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution
• To droop one's head like a bulrush, And to lie down in sackcloth and ashes? —  The Makers and Teachers of Judaism

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