sedge

• Great flats of mud, submerged at high water, stretched to his feet over the Strand, and at the margin of mud and sedge was a cluster of huts, built on poles; inaccessible because their careful householders had drawn up the ladders at sunset. —  The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh
• Already it had cleared the sedge, and was floating out in open water. —  The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
• A fishery that gave poor and diminishing results, even with the Mayfly, sedge, and Welshman's button, was not suitable for dry-fly experts, and the Ramsbury experiment was abandoned. —  Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
• He had crept in among the sedge, and no doubt was lying with only his head, or part of it, above the water, his body concealed by the broad leaves of the nymphae_, while the head itself could not be distinguished among the white flowers that lay thickly along the surface. —  The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North
• Moreover, the sedge was so thick, that it was with difficulty they could use their oars. —  The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North

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