reed-fringed

• “The house stood on a gentle rise, and in front the trees had been thinned so that across the smooth lawn you looked over stretching paddocks, dotted with gum-trees, and broken by the silver gleam of a reed-fringed lagoon.”

  Archive 2009-03-01

• “Most clustered around the spring-fed, reed-fringed pool that occupied the depression in the center of the canyon.”

  Fictionaut: The Lives of Felix Gunderson

• “While for anguish at my deed of shame, hath Leda sought her death by hanging; and on the deep, to weary wandering doomed my lord hath met his end; and Castor and his brother, twin glory of their native land, are vanished from men's sight, leaving the plains that shook to their galloping steeds, and the course beside reed-fringed Eurotas, where those youthful athletes strove.”

  Helen

• “Halfway between Elmora and the Amadician border, Serana sat in a flat grassy valley among forested hills, with at least a mile to the trees in any direction save his, and a small, reed-fringed lake fed by two wide streams lay between him and the village.”

  Knife of Dreams

• “I turned a corner and there it stood by the side of a dark, reed-fringed, and heron-haunted lake.”

  Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine

• “Beyond this there was a reed-fringed lake with water-fowl and a smaller pond with water-lilies and goldfish.”

  Here Lies Gloria Mundy

• “The second brook, still and silent like the rest, was a shallow, reed-fringed, meandering serpent of silver.”

  The Virgin In The Ice

• “Panama hat and the dusky Egyptian, whose dark skin and closely-swathed robes gave her the look of some Old Testament character, a look borne out by the surroundings of reed-fringed river and plumy, tufted palms.”

  Afterwards

• “A glance revealed a broad, reed-fringed canal, reflecting little dancing lights on its wind-swept surface -- the stars which had the audacity to peep out from between the clouds.”

  'Brother Bosch', an Airman's Escape from Germany

• “The river was beginning to be wider, flowing between reed-fringed banks with here and there a willow at the water's edge.”

  Coot Club

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